Colloquialisms
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Sayings, Tidbits of American (or?) English
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"The
world is like a cucumber. Today it's in your hands, tomorrow it's up
your ass."
--An Arab saying
Exclamations:
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Well
I'll be damned! |
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Well
I'll be dipped in shit! |
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Well
I'll be dipped in dirty brown stuff! |
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Well
I'll be go to hell! |
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Beat
me with a stick and call me 'lumpy'! |
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Well
tie me to an ant bed and smear my ears with jam! |
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Well
spank me and call me daddy! |
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Holy
horseshit Batman! |
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Balls
and bilgewater! |
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Roll
me in sugar and call me a jelly doughnut! |
Intelligence
(or a lack thereof):
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As
dumb as a post. |
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If
he had one more braincell he'd be an idiot. |
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Not
the sharpest knife in the drawer. |
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Doesn't
have both oars in the water. |
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A
couple beers short of a six-pack. |
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Not
firing on all eight cylinders. |
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His
elevator doesn't go all the way to the top. |
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A
few clowns short of a circus. |
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An
experiment in artificial stupidity. |
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The
wheel's spinning but the hamster's dead. |
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All
foam, no beer. |
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Couldn't
pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel. |
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He
fell out of the Stupid Tree and hit every branch on the way down.
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As
smart as bait. |
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Chimney's
clogged. |
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Elevator
doesn't go all the way to the top floor. |
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His
antenna doesn't pick up all the channels. |
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His
belt doesn't go through all the loops. |
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Proof
that evolution can go in reverse. |
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Receiver
is off the hook. |
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His
slinky's kinked. |
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Too
much yardage between the goal posts. |
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That
boy don't ride out the same day he saddles up. |
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He's
one french fry short of a Happy Meal. |
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He's
one bubble off plumb. |
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I
suppose you'd poke a bear with a short stick? |
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The
Guards are down and the bells are ringing but the train still ain't
coming. |
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It
just goes in one ear and out the other. |
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If
he had a brain, he'd take it out and play with it. |
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A
few Kangaroos short in the top paddock |
Difficulty:
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You
have more chance of crapping in the Queen's handbag. |
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You
have more chance of crapping in the Pope's trouser pocket.
|
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You
have more chance of crapping in the President's trouser pocket.
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Wish
in one hand, and shit in the other and see which one gets filled first.
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Life
is hard, then you die. |
Raising
Teenagers is like...
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Nailing
Jello to a tree
|
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Herding
cats
|
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Trying
to sandpaper a tigers arse in a barn |
Tougher
than...
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lips
on a woodpecker |
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woodpecker
lips |
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shoe
leather |
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Stuck
between and rock and a hard place |
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Suck's
More'n a bucket of leeches |
It's
Colder Than...
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A
Witch's tit in a brass bra
|
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A
Witch's tit in a brass bra on the North side of a glacier in the middle
of a blizzard in January
|
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A
puddle of piss in November |
Since we're
in Texas, this seems appropo:
It's
Hotter than...
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fish
grease |
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blue
blazes |
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who
shot John |
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a
two dollar pistol |
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seven
kinds of hell |
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a
cowboy's cook stove |
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a
lizard's forehead |
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pepper
pudding |
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the
hinges of hell |
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a
camp-meeting sermon |
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a
Texas firecracker |
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a
hen in a wool sack |
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a
bucket of red ants |
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a
hunk of Hades out there |
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a
bug on a light bulb |
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nine
acres of burning tree stumps |
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the
devil's undershirt |
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hot
as a boiled owl |
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two
rats having sex in a wool sock |
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a
Hollywood hooker |
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so
hot my lawn furniture's standing on one leg |
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so
hot the lizards are fanning themselves |
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so
hot the corn in the fields was popping and the cows thought is was
snow and froze to death |
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so
hot the trees are whistling for the dogs |
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so
hot I saw a dog chasing a cat and they were both walking. |
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so
hot I saw a coyote chasing a rabbit and they were both walking.
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Jumpier
Than...
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A
long-tailed cat in a room full of rockin' chairs
|
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A
cat on a hot tin roof. |
So
Confused...
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I
don't know if I'm washin' or hangin' out
|
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I
don't know if I'm coming or going |
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I
don't know if I'm coming or going to cum |
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She
doesn't know whether to shit or go blind. |
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The
boy is so confused he don't know whether to scratch his watch or wind
his butt |
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Are
you getting your murds wixed?
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More
Confused Than...
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A
newborn in a titty bar
|
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A
lesbian in a tuna cannery |
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A
lesbian in a fish market |
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A
Blind dog in a smoke house |
Busier
Than...
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A
one-legged man in a butt-kickin' contest
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A
one-armed paper hanger
|
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A
puppy with two peters |
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A
three legged dog with diarrhea. |
Been
Killed More Times Than...
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Kenny
on South Park
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Happy
As...
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A
clam at high tide
|
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A
gopher in soft dirt |
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A
pig in shit
|
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A
puppy with two tails |
So
Low...
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Whale
shit at the bottom of the ocean looks like clouds in the sky.
|
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He
could crawl under a snake's belly. |
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The
only way to go is up. |
Slicker
Than...
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Shit
|
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Snot
|
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Frog
snot on a watermelon seed! |
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The
inside of a can of thirty weight. |
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Greased
owl shit |
As
Much Fun As...
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A
fart in a spacesuit. |
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Sex
in a Yugo. |
Charm
and Grace...
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The
charm of an untipped waiter |
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She's
got two left feet. |
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He
can't walk and chew gum at the same time. |
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He
can charm the chrome off a trailer hitch. |
Unreliability
-- Untrustworthiness Worthlessness, Etc...
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If
you believe that, I've got a bridge I'd like to show you. |
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If
you believe that, I've got some beachfront property in Arizona for
you. |
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He's
as full of shit as a Christmas turkey. |
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As
useless as tits on a frog. |
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As
useless as an umbrella in a hurricane. |
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As
useless as a lead balloon. |
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As
useless as a screen door in a submarine. |
Beauty
-- or the Lack Thereof...
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She
was beaten badly with the ugly stick. |
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She
must have hit every branch when she fell out of the ugly tree.
|
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A
face only a mother could love |
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Looks
aren't everything; in her case, they aren't anything. |
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His
teeth are his own-- he just made the last payment on them.
|
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She
looks like she was hit hard by menopause and dragged for fifty yards.
|
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Cute
as a bug in a rug |
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Pretty
as a picture |
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Pretty
as a peach |
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Pretty
as a Georgia peach
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Wishes,
Providence, Preferences and Miscellaneous...
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If
wishes was fishes we'd all have some fried. |
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All
things being equal, I'd rather be in Philadelphia. |
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The
Good Lord willin' and the creek don't rise. |
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Looks
like he's been rode hard and put up wet. |
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He's
a walking advertisement for birth control. |
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The
world is your oyster. |
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Two
things in life are certain... death and taxes. |
Whatever...
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Makes
you happy |
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Winds
your watch |
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Gets
you though the night |
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Creams
your twinkie |
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Reduces
your swelling |
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Moistens
your panties |
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Tweeks
your twizzler |
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Floats
your boat |
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Blows
your skirt up |
Relax!
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Chill
out. |
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Settle
down. |
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Get
a grip. |
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Sure
you've got a headache, but don't take it out on me. |
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Mother
please, I'd rather do it myself. |
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Take
a pill. |
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Take
two, they're small. |
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Don't
get your panties in a bunch. |
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Don't
get your panties in a wad. |
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Don't
get your nickers in a twist. |
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Things
could be worse... you could be doing this in Afghanistan. |
Weight-related
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She's
so skinny she has to run around in circles in the shower to get wet.
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He's
so skinny, when he turns sideways, he disappears. |
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Why
son, the shadow of your ass must weigh ten pounds! (from Good Morning,
Vietnam) |
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He
has a big heart, and a stomach to match. |
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He's
so fat, when he takes a shower his feet don't get wet! |
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Quick!
Call Greenpeace. I think that's a Japanese whaler circling her.
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