Edited by skiddo, 17 March 2004 - 09:32 PM.
Clichés - Some Are Bugging Me...
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Posted 17 March 2004 - 09:30 PM
who's ever actually been stuck between a rock and a hard place?
was this cliché invented by a pot-holer? can't think of anybody else who might come up with it?
the devil and the deep blue sea? how often has that happened? oh you'll never guess, we bumped into satan whilst out pleasue boating of wales - what?
pot calling the kettle - you're tripping.
and my personal favourite from when we were little, my dear old mum was forever using this one - get out of the house the lot of you i've just cleaned up. go on, fcuk-off!
bless her. i miss those salad days of youth.
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Posted 17 March 2004 - 09:53 PM
what about "not touching something with a barge pole"? Chance would be a fine thing. Have you seen the size of the modern barge pole? Evenly with my manly physique, I doubt I could perform a smooth lift 'n' touch manoeuvre.
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Posted 17 March 2004 - 09:54 PM
lol keith...
i wasn't looking for answers - i was looking for others to gimme a take on the silly things we say and add their own.
you and your logical mind 
thanks though - not that i'm being ungrateful or anything. 
thanks though - not that i'm being ungrateful or anything.
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Posted 17 March 2004 - 09:56 PM
have you been watching "whats in a word" skiddo? This program is full of them but it gives you the meaning of them. Thinks like
ship shape and bristol fashion.
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Posted 17 March 2004 - 09:58 PM
lol kev - that's more like it.
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Posted 17 March 2004 - 10:00 PM
i haven't wicky - don't watch much telly (er, shameless is about the lot really). i was just thinking about silly stuff we say earier today.have you been watching "whats in a word" skiddo? This program is full of them but it gives you the meaning of them. Thinks like
ship shape and bristol fashion.
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Posted 17 March 2004 - 10:02 PM
Sounds very evocative, doesn't it? Or is it just me?ship shape and bristol fashion.
OK, how about "Lickety split" –
my mind is not being "logical" when I try to envisage a meaning there!
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Posted 17 March 2004 - 10:03 PM
** Poncy w4nk warning ! !- FOOK , what kind of radio4 listener wrote THIs shite ? **
Wordy wankers like me would be fooked RIGHT off if all cliches were banned.
Besides, I used to have a badge on my punk blazer as a nipper that read " I am a cliche". Never a truer word, etc etc. 
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Posted 17 March 2004 - 10:12 PM
pb i wasn't slagging clichés off. i love them. i was just trying to have a laugh with some alternative angles on them.
my own personal side glances are... i'll jump off that bridge when i come to it. and it's all gone pears up and tit-shaped.
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my own personal side glances are... i'll jump off that bridge when i come to it. and it's all gone pears up and tit-shaped.
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Posted 17 March 2004 - 10:18 PM
I love mixed metaphor cliches ! I'm sure Prescott's speechwriter adds them deliberately !!
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Posted 17 March 2004 - 10:30 PM
serve us some up them you fcukin tease.
it would seem my comic last line on my opening post has bypassed all of you. comedy pearls before swine, i swear. there's another one.
did some farmer come back from his seaside diving holiday on the barrier reef and show his pigs the fruits of his snorkel dives - only to be disappointed by their lack of interest? i think fcuking not.
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Posted 17 March 2004 - 10:37 PM
"pearls before swine" could've been the tag line of a movie I watched in Holland last year....I've never been the same since.
I've always hated " have your cake and eat it". Just what the FOOK does THAT mean? If you have a cake but don't eat it, whats the fookin use of a cake ?
And speaking of cakes, when was the last time you bought a " hot cake" ? So how can "selling like hot cakes" mean successful ? 
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Posted 17 March 2004 - 10:50 PM
now you're with me.
i like to say to people who use the the cake cliche - no, now you're being silly. we all eat the cake.
to go back to my earlier opening post. how many youngsters really enjoy a good salad, ffs.
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Posted 17 March 2004 - 10:54 PM
Since when were parrots renowned for getting ill?
Newts? Newts!? Do they really get drunk?
And no, I'm damn sure it's going to hurt ME a lot more than you - you cane wielding psychopath dressed up as a teacher you b*stard.
Oh, and TADTS - oh hold on - that one's quite sensible really.
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Posted 17 March 2004 - 10:57 PM
And why the f*ck would I want to hold a candle to anything. If I wanted to see how good something was, a candle is the last thing I'd use - I'd prolly set the bloody thing on fire.
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Posted 17 March 2004 - 11:01 PM
lmao james. good work.
now you'll have to excuse me, because this morning i made my bed and now i'm going to lie in it. and no, it's no bed of roses. that would be too gay. even for me.
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Posted 17 March 2004 - 11:01 PM
When did you last see it raining cats and dogs?
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Posted 17 March 2004 - 11:03 PM
Just make sure you don't gert out of bed on the wrong foot –this morning i made my bed and now i'm going to lie in it. and no, it's no bed of roses. that would be too gay. even for me.
or you may become a "left-footer"
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Posted 17 March 2004 - 11:04 PM
I actually read a GREAT cliche/analogy about rain in the Aerosmith biography " Walk This Way "
Steve Tyler talked about cowering in a forest cabin during a devasting storm : he says
" It was raining harder'n a cow pissing on a flat rock ". That KILLED me. !
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