Like “does the Pope shit in the woods?” or “that train has sailed?”
Also, what good examples can you think of?
It’s not rocket surgery.
“I’m lost for words”
I’m running around like a chicken with its legs cut off.
Reminds me of my friend once saying that “the discussion leads nowhere. It’s like the snake biting its tongue”
One of my standbys is “that horse has sailed”.
Current pet peeve: “to step foot on”. Facepalm! Just coz somebody misheard “set” doesn’t make “step foot” grammatical. And yet here we are.
Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater else you’ll end up with a wet, critically injured baby.
I always liked “Hindsight is 50/50”
“Not the brightest cookie in the crayon box” is an amalgamation of 3 different sayings I’ve been trying to make happen. It won’t happen.
I used to say not the sharpest cookie in the jar
My mom was fond of “Not the brightest egg in the drawer”.
I do it in danish, but we have the idiom here too. I’ll often make up a new one following the not the x y in the z template. E.g. Not the loudest spoon in the forest.
My buddy and I have a whole list of these…I started calling them masonism’s because he messes them up so often lol
“I don’t give a shit if he wrote the Mona Lisa!”
“I’m not attached to my hip!”
“I’m taking my own life…into my own hands!”
“How’s that for apples?”
“There’s not enough meat to play with”
“That’s a hit…and a miss!”
“If it weighs anything to you….”
“Jesus Christ! That’s slave robbery!
“Welp, I’m going to get hard at work”
“I’m making shit up out of my ass.”
“He was flopping back and forth” (flip flopping)
“I’m going to go tell this kid a piece of my mind…”
“Oh, here you go….you’re going to piss on my parade!”
“Don’t count your chickens before they turn into eggs.”
“Well isn’t that the horse calling the kettle black”
“Does a fat kid shit in the woods?”
“I can sleep through a rock!”
Ibanez AZ series guitars? Yea I know them like they’re in the back of my hand…”
“There’s a lot of onions to that…”
“I’m pulling it off my head”
“Knock the balls off!
-knock it out of the park/socks off
“That’s a double sided sword!”
“You can’t lead a horse to fish…”
I say “Same Difference” often and people hate it.
Im stealing these.
“Welp, I’m going to get hard at work”
Umm… Yeah, that TOTALLY never actually happens to me either.
I can’t get hard at work because there’s not enough meat to play with =/
There’s not enough meat to play with because I can’t get hard at work!
Ahh! It’s a Catch 22!
“Well isn’t that the horse calling the kettle black”
I love this.
I thought “cakewalk” was a clever American amalgamation of “a piece of cake” and “a walk in the park”.
Turns out it’s actually related to slavery, so probably doesn’t count.
“I could care less”
You could and you should!
We’ll drive off that bridge when we get to it
No, the bridge is too well-guarded.
I can’t believe you got such a simple saying wrong. It’s not rocket surgery.
I need to start using this one, I already use “burn that bridge” fairly often
I like “we’ll burn that bridge when we come to it”
I usually go with “We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it”
That’s my favorite one to use
People in glass houses shouldn’t get stoned
