"you can't have your cake and eat it too" :x it doesn't make sense to me
Brutal_Elitegs
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?"
Yeah, the correct formulation is "eat one's cake and have it too". In other words, the person wants to eat a cake, but still have it despite having eaten it.
I could have sworn that it meant "If you do something bad, you'll get you comeuppance".
The way it's stated/said, it states "You can do as you please and get away with it."
No, it says that good deeds/intentions are frequently unrewarded
It should be said as well that it's intended to be taken sarcastically. A good example would be, say, a student at a school who finds a knife on the playground, then turns it into the administration, and promptly gets suspended for possession of a weapon on school property. Here, the saying would imply that the administration acted in an absurd fashion by punishing a student whose intention was to do a good deed and keep the schoolyard safe.
What the hell does "until the cows come home" mean? Something about cattle drives and until those cows get to where they are going???.....or am I way off?
What the hell does "until the cows come home" mean? Something about cattle drives and until those cows get to where they are going???.....or am I way off?DudeNtheRoom
What the hell does "until the cows come home" mean? Something about cattle drives and until those cows get to where they are going???.....or am I way off?DudeNtheRoom
Ever seen the sight of cows crossing a road and preventing all through traffic for a loooong time while they do so?
That's how long it takes for cows to come home. :P
Say, here's a good one: "There's more than one way to skin a cat."
Who exactly was the first person to skin cats in multiple fashions in order to confirm that there are in fact multiple ways of completing this task?
cd_rom
Skinning cats is remarkably easy.
I find making my cat-fur lined boots require a different skinning technique to that when making my tabby underpants.It's sometimes fun to leave the head on when making underwear – always gives the ladies a surprise!
That one has always baffled me. They're fruit, they're round, they grow on trees. There's more similarities than differences. I'd think comparing giraffes to loneliness would be more appropriate.
[QUOTE="HellsAngel2c"]"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.Brutal_Elitegs
hold down the fort, and when i get back the two of us can tickle the fort. I think I just fell in love with David Mitchell all over again
[QUOTE="GazaAli"]"Going back to the drawing board" "Make ends meet" The drawing board is a reference to planning, like going back to the chalk board to map a plan out. Like it football they write down plays on a drawing board, or in the corporate world they may map out a strategy at a meeting on a chalk board. ends is slang for money. so Make ends meet, is like putting money together, cause you need more than $1 to survive. so dollar bills meet each other in your wallet I guess.
A jug fills drop by drop was always the hardest to understand but it's very clear. It means that no matter what situation you are put in every little thing you do will fill the jug, thus every little thing counts.
"The straw that broke the camels back." That's one I never understood.
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'. Right -- which is also where the figure of speech " the last straw " comes from...
[QUOTE="67gt500"]Right -- which is also where the figure of speech " the last straw " comes from... Genetic_Code
I thought that came from "grasping for straws" which I don't get. The grasping for /at straws idiom is more about making a futile attempt at something...
"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
it enrages you because its the funnier version. Its called a backhanded compliment.... people with a more refined sense of humor like to use techniques such as these ;)
backhanded compliments are always more sophisticated than direct insults.
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