"The straw that broke the camels back." That's one I never understood.
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The relatively small problem that, taken in combination with a lot of other relatively small problems, makes a situation unbearable"The straw that broke the camels back." That's one I never understood.
KH-mixerX
One piece of straw isn't very heavy, but if you loaded it on a camel one piece at a time, sooner or later you'd reach the point where he couldn't carry any more. That's the 'straw'."The straw that broke the camels back." That's one I never understood.
KH-mixerX
I always took the proof as being relative to the quality of the pudding, not the quality of it being pudding"The proof of the pudding is in the eating".
It seems to me that if someone sees brown glop, the proper way to verify that it is indeed pudding as opposed to something else is not to eat it.
GabuEx
I always thoughtdollars to donuts was odd.
Thats the bees knees.
Cats meow.
I also find it amusing when people say "I could care less." When they mean "I couldn't care lesss."
[QUOTE="GabuEx"]I always took the proof as being relative to the quality of the pudding, not the quality of it being pudding"The proof of the pudding is in the eating".
It seems to me that if someone sees brown glop, the proper way to verify that it is indeed pudding as opposed to something else is not to eat it.
xaos
I suppose that's one way of reading it, although I much prefer my version where a guy thinks it might be pudding or it might be ****, and eats it to find out which it is. :P
(Speaking of which, the garbled version of "the proof is in the pudding" almost annoys me as much as "could care less".)
[QUOTE="GabuEx"]I always took the proof as being relative to the quality of the pudding, not the quality of it being puddingI have to agree with xaos on this one. The person already knows it's pudding, or else the saying would be 'the proof is in whatever that stuff is'."The proof of the pudding is in the eating".
It seems to me that if someone sees brown glop, the proper way to verify that it is indeed pudding as opposed to something else is not to eat it.
xaos
(Speaking of which, the garbled version of "the proof is in the pudding" almost annoys me as much as "could care less".)GabuExWhat a great world if that were true though. Murders solved with some delicious pudding. Or make scientific discoveries more tasty. Sit down eat some Vanilla pudding and voila.. the theory is correct.
"A different kettle of fish"
I'm sure I could googlify it but................ I guess I'm just lazy.
WTF?! LOL I have NEVER heard of that.[QUOTE="poptart"]WTF?! LOL I have NEVER heard of that."A different kettle of fish"
I'm sure I could googlify it but................ I guess I'm just lazy.
irishscott99
Hmm... Well maybe it's a little more common over our side of the Atlantic. Either way I like it - it's just tickety boo.
[QUOTE="irishscott99"][QUOTE="poptart"]
"A different kettle of fish"
I'm sure I could googlify it but................ I guess I'm just lazy.
WTF?! LOL I have NEVER heard of that.Hmm... Well maybe it's a little more common over our side of the Atlantic. Either way I like it - it's just tickety boo.
It's hilarious... and what the heck is tickety boo... lol you crazy foreigners :P(Speaking of which, the garbled version of "the proof is in the pudding" almost annoys me as much as "could care less".)
GabuEx
I could care less about what you think, Gabu. :)
"I could care less" enrages me. It implies that you have some level of care, no matter how small. 'I couldn't care less' implies you have NO care for it, therefore it's impossible for it to get any lower.HellsAngel2c
I never understood "don't cut off your nose to spite your face"
georgestone
It basically means, "Don't hurt yourself to get back at someone to whom you're connected." For example, suppose you're in a team event, but you really don't like your teammate, so you purposefully sabotage your team's efforts to get back at him, thereby hurting yourself too.
[QUOTE="georgestone"]
I never understood "don't cut off your nose to spite your face"
GabuEx
It basically means, "Don't hurt yourself to get back at someone to whom you're connected." For example, suppose you're in a team event, but you really don't like your teammate, so you purposefully sabotage your team's efforts to get back at him, thereby hurting yourself too.
Or more generally, don't harm your greater interests to gain revenge for some petty affront =Dlol You will never see that in an economics textbook. You might find it in a poly sci textbook under, 'political catchphrases'."The wealth will just 'trickle down'"
jaydough
-could care less.
Necrifer
I like 'couldn't care less' because so many people say 'could care less' which means the opposite, that they care a lot, because they could care less.
aransom
I only run into this issue with Americans.
I've never heard anyone in Australia say anything other than "I couldn't care less."
"less is more" Why don't people just ****ing say less is better.LonelynightBecause "less is more" (or some variant of it) is a famous quite by a Bauhaus artist.
"The phrase as adopted by the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as a precept for minimalist design"
Means you can't have it both ways. If you eat the cake you no longer have it."you can't have your cake and eat it too" :x it doesn't make sense to me
flipin_jackass
[QUOTE="flipin_jackass"]Means you can't have it both ways. If you eat the cake you no longer have it. But who wants to have a cake that you can't eat? Well, unless it's like a urinal cake or something"you can't have your cake and eat it too" :x it doesn't make sense to me
dave123321
[QUOTE="dave123321"][QUOTE="flipin_jackass"]Means you can't have it both ways. If you eat the cake you no longer have it. But who wants to have a cake that you can't eat? Well, unless it's like a urinal cake or something"you can't have your cake and eat it too" :x it doesn't make sense to me
xaos
I do! :o I want to own a cake shop when I growup. :)
It's a backwards way of saying you can't eat your cake and have it too. I think confusion arises when people think, "why the **** would I buy a cake if I can't eat it?""you can't have your cake and eat it too" :x it doesn't make sense to me
flipin_jackass
[QUOTE="xaos"]
[QUOTE="dave123321"]
Means you can't have it both ways. If you eat the cake you no longer have it.
arad96
But who wants to have a cake that you can't eat? Well, unless it's like a urinal cake or something
I do! :o I want to own a cake shop when I growup. :)
Best urinal cakes in town.
[QUOTE="dave123321"][QUOTE="flipin_jackass"]Means you can't have it both ways. If you eat the cake you no longer have it. But who wants to have a cake that you can't eat? Well, unless it's like a urinal cake or something That's a good point ."you can't have your cake and eat it too" :x it doesn't make sense to me
xaos
But isn't that like saying you can't have your money and spend it too. Of course you can have your money, and spending it is the point. flipin_jackassYou can't have money and spend it too. If you spend it, you don't have it. If you have it, you don't spend it. You choose one or the other.
[QUOTE="flipin_jackass"]But isn't that like saying you can't have your money and spend it too. Of course you can have your money, and spending it is the point. cd_romYou can't have money and spend it too. If you spend it, you don't have it. If you have it, you don't spend it. You choose one or the other. Or spend some, and save the rest. You can have your money, and spend it too!
Head over heels. It should be heels over head!mrmusicman247I thought it was more the general motion than a state of being. Head over heels over head over heels, etc.
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