Slightly familiar phrases
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- CygnusZero4
I'm trying to think of some phrases that many people have heard before, but you don't hear everyday, ones that aren't used too often, but we still recognize them.
Doesn't even matter what they mean, just need a collection of creative, and familiar phrases that arent heard everyday.
An example would be 'a ghost of a chance'. I said something to a friend the other day, asking him if something in particular would happen, and his response to me was 'I guess there's a ghost of a chance'.
Anyway, can anyone think of anything?
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Not too shabby
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Pull the wool over someone's eyes
Let the cat out of the bag
Fly off the handle
Stole my thunder
Pay through the nose
Not up to scratch
Caught red-handed
Bury the hatchet
Chew the fat
Have a screw loose
I've got a frog in my throat- Some good ones, thanks. A bunch are more commonly used than Im looking for.CygnusZero4
- ok lemme think some more. I'm usually good at these, because I like to say strange things to people haha********
- Cool. Like I said ghost of a chance is one people have heard, but dont hear often. Need more of those.CygnusZero4
- up to snuffjohnny_wobble
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Read between the lines
Toe the line
Flash in the pan
Pull someone's leg
Raining cats and dogs
Pie in the sky
Long in the tooth
Beat around the bush
Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining- Nice, love toe the line, pie in the sky, thanks.CygnusZero4
- Tow the line.********
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Bats in the belfry
- now that's an odd one********
- Lol, what does it mean?CygnusZero4
- fucking awesome, reminds me of my grandpaifeltdave
- 'Bats in the belfry' refers to someone who acts as though he has bats careering around his topmost part, i.e. his head.********
- means you're crazyifeltdave
- yes, means you're crazy hehehe well I am********
- like the old cuckoo birds swirling around or something********
- now that's an odd one
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As happy as a clam
Good riddance to bad rubbish
Hooray Henry
Everything's Hunky-dory
The whole kit and caboodle
Paddle your own canoe
Up a gum tree
There's no such thing as a free lunch- where are you coming up with these!?ifeltdave
- I'm fucking weird bro, don't you worry... :-)********
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Living the Life of Riley
Knock into a cocked hat- Oohh life of riley, thats a good one. It's strange, but still means something important.CygnusZero4
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How could I have forgotten:
In like Flynn
- vaxorcist0
some of these horrible business cliche's like the KPMG theme song....
Chorus
KPMG - We're as strong as can be,
A team of power and energy,
We go for the gold, together we hold
Onto our vision of global strategy!Repeat Chorus
We create, we innovate,
We pass the ones that are late
A global dream... this is our dream of success that we create.
We'll be number one, with effort and fun
Together each of us can run
For gold - that shines like the sun in our eyes.Chorus x 2
The time is now to lead the way,
We share the same the idea
That may win by the end of the day.
Our strength is here to stay.
Identity, one energy,
One strategy, with sympathy.
These are the words that will lead us into a new world.Chorus x 3
Kay-Pee-Emm-Geee - we got the power...
Ooooh-oohh...
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- CygnusZero40
These are basicallyjust called expressions, right?
- They wouldn't be metaphors.CygnusZero4
- they are expressions or sayings in my book. more like sayings********
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Here's a good one CygnusZero4
Just because you don't like how a movie is made, such as, ohh let's say 'The Dark Knight Rises', doesn't mean you have to "piss on other people's parades" or do you have some sort of "axe to grind"
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- Hehe not surprised you brought that up. Saw you in that thread many times.CygnusZero4
- haha remembered you told someone to fuck off and not piss on our parades. heheh********
- lolCygnusZero4
- yeah, the "Jury is still out" on that flick, leave us the fuck alone hee********
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A shot in the dark or arm
Stop trying to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
Between a rock and a hard place
Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
Fifteen minutes of fame (Andy Warhol)
- CygnusZero40
Alright, if someone says to you something is like second nature to them, what is that exactly, an expression?
- maybe "Run of the mill"********
- Pie in the sky
Piece of cake******** - that's a "No-brainer"********
- maybe "Run of the mill"
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That bitch divorced me, took all my money and "sold down the river".
;-O
- mg330
"Fuck off"
- randommail0
Ride into the danger zone.
- vaxorcist0
from my days in the software development trenches... where specs changed a bit
"You ordered a submarine and now you want it to do supersonic flight too?"
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ACT A FOOL!
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A countenance more in sorrow than in anger
A Daniel come to judgement
A dish fit for the gods
A fool's paradise
A foregone conclusion
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse
A ministering angel shall my sister be
A plague on both your houses
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
A sea change
A sorry sight
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio
All corners of the world
All one to me
All that glitters is not gold / All that glisters is not gold
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players
All's well that ends well
An ill-favoured thing sir, but mine own
And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school
And thereby hangs a tale
As cold as any stone
As dead as a doornail
As good luck would have it
As merry as the day is long
As pure as the driven snow
At one fell swoop
Bag and baggage
Beast with two backs
Beware the ides of March
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks
Brevity is the soul of wit
But screw your courage to the sticking-place
But, for my own part, it was Greek to me
Come the three corners of the world in arms
Come what come may
Comparisons are odorous
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
Dash to pieces
Discretion is the better part of valour
Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn, and cauldron bubble
Eaten out of house and home
Et tu, Brute
Even at the turning of the tide
Exceedingly well read
Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog
Fair play
Fancy free
Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man
Fight fire with fire
For ever and a day
Frailty, thy name is woman
Foul play
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears
Good men and true
Good riddance
Green eyed monster
Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings
He will give the Devil his due
Heart's content
High time
His beard was as white as snow
Hoist by your own petard
Hot-blooded
Household words
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child
I bear a charmed life
I have not slept one wink
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
If music be the food of love, play on
In a pickle
In my mind's eye, Horatio
In stitches
In the twinkling of an eye
Is this a dagger which I see before me?
It beggar'd all description
It is meat and drink to me
Lay it on with a trowel
Lie low
Like the Dickens
Love is blind
Make your hair stand on end
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
Milk of human kindness
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows
More fool you
More honoured in the breach than in the observance
Much Ado about Nothing
My salad days
Neither a borrower nor a lender be
Night owl
No more cakes and ale?
Now is the winter of our discontent
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo
Off with his head
Oh, that way madness lies
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more
Out of the jaws of death
Pound of flesh
Primrose path
Rhyme nor reason
Salad days
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything
Screw your courage to the sticking place
Send him packing
Set your teeth on edge
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Short shrift
Shuffle off this mortal coil
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
Star crossed lovers
Stiffen the sinews
Stony hearted
Such stuff as dreams are made on
The course of true love never did run smooth
The crack of doom
The Devil incarnate
The game is afoot
The game is up
The quality of mercy is not strained
The Queen's English
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on
There's method in my madness
Thereby hangs a tale
This is the short and the long of it
This is very midsummer madness
This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
Though this be madness, yet there is method in it
Thus far into the bowels of the land
To be or not to be, that is the question
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub
Too much of a good thing
Truth will out
Under the greenwood tree
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
Up in arms
Vanish into thin air
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers
We have seen better days
Wear your heart on your sleeve
What a piece of work is man
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions
Where the bee sucks, there suck I
While you live, tell truth and shame the Devil!
Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure
Wild goose chase
Woe is me- shakespeare********
- Some great ones, thanks.CygnusZero4
- Yeah I know he has a lot of great ones. Forgot about him though. Thanks for reminding.CygnusZero4
- yes, quite a few good ones there...********
- shakespeare