Sayings that don't make sense.

lazygal

Just read a saying in the stingy thread, the person 'Wouldn't spend Christmas'.

What does that mean, wouldn't spend Christmas?


I'm sure there are more.

Posy

"Shut your mouth and eat your dinner"

Rigol

You never see an old man eating a twix.

**Timbuk2**

A stitch in time saves nine.

MarkR

Spend. As in spending time. It's funny cause you don't have to explain it. Ah crap.

SocSocPol

Garda Intelligence:D

Chips Ahoy

Why? That's the why!?
usually said by an angry mother

Fr_Dougal

lazygal wrote: »

Just read a saying in the stingy thread, the person 'Wouldn't spend Christmas'.

What does that mean, wouldn't spend Christmas?


I'm sure there are more.

That even at Christmas time they wouldn't spend money.

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

A stitch in time saves nine.

If you spot an item of clotting that needs a stitch in time you'll save yourself having to make a few more when it unravels further.


Eh this is kinda self explanatory stuff folks...

senorwipesalot

That fella wouldnt give you the steam off his piss.


Why would you want someone elses piss steam?

staker

I'd ate the back feet off a low flying duck.

My name is URL

If he was alive today, he'd roll in his grave

NegativeCreep

"Might aswell be hung for a sheep as a lamb." I don't get it

SocSocPol

The Dogs Bollox, could you think of a less well suited term to describe something that is really good?

AnonoBoy

"He who laughs last should get his hearing checked before the road rises up to meet him."

You're drunk Granddad, feck off home ya auld sauce-hound.

TAlderson

"More [something] than you can shake a stick at." Who the hell is shaking sticks at things, and why are they too lazy to do it once they reach a certain number?

-Tyler

AlmightyCushion

The term one trick pony, it's usually used in a very negative way yet I've never seen a single pony that can do even one trick let alone many and believe me I've looked. A pony that could do tricks (even a simple roll over or something like that) would actually be pretty cool and somewhat unique. Now a one trick magician, that would be pretty lame.

Boombastic

If you fall and break your legs, don't come running to me

garv123

You can't have your cake and eat it.

If I get a cake of course I'm going to fecking eat it.

dxhound2005

NegativeCreep wrote: »

"Might aswell be hung for a sheep as a lamb." I don't get it

It should probably be hanged rather than hung.

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/I+might+as+well+be+hung+for+a+sheep+as+a+lamb

Vote Fianna Fail

NegativeCreep

garv123 wrote: »

You can't have your cake and eat it.

If I get a cake of course I'm going to fecking eat it.

I know this one It means you can't have a cake, then eat it and then expect to still have it. You can't have it both ways basically.
I think

MHalberstram

Unguaranteed bondholders will be repaid in full.

NegativeCreep

dxhound2005 wrote: »

It should probably be hanged rather than hung.

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/I+might+as+well+be+hung+for+a+sheep+as+a+lamb

ohhh thanks

alchemist33

The exception that proves the rule. How can an exception prove a rule? It should disprove it.

Rayne Wooney

Is minic a bhris béal duine a shrón

marcsignal

'Revert Back'

It's used every day by people who are busting their arses trying to sound 'intellectual'.
It means absolutely nothing, and is bad grammar.

eg:

'We should revert back to the original position' = :rolleyes:

'We should revert to the original position' =

In short, the word 'Revert' means, to 'go back'

Sorry, had to get that off my chest, it drives me fcuking mad.

dxhound2005

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

The term one trick pony, it's usually used in a very negative way yet I've never seen a single pony that can do even one trick let alone many and believe me I've looked. A pony that could do tricks (even a simple roll over or something like that) would actually be pretty cool and somewhat unique. Now a one trick magician, that would be pretty lame.

The story goes that around the mid-1800s there was one particularly disasterous show by The Cuffling Cousins Circus. It is said that they had an appallingly dull act involving a pony that knew no tricks apart from “playing dead”, and that this led the disappointed audience to uproar, demanding their money back. Suffice it to say this one-trick-pony did not entertain and certainly did not impress! Much like one-trick-ponies that we refer to today.

Shryke

My name is URL wrote: »

If he was alive today, he'd roll in his grave

This is two sayings stuck together, but I really like the Muppet like imagery I'm getting of some ghost of Christmas past type corpse hurricaning about the place in dismay.

Lustrum

The head on him and the price of cabbage!

Lapin

There'll be wigs on the green I tell ya.


WTF

Ted_YNWA

So's your face

ejmaztec

"I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire"

The King of Moo

To be honest, I could care less about commonly-used words and phrases that don't make sense (for all intensive purposes anywho), irregardless of what you think.

Lawrence1895

'Eat your spinach and you'll be as strong as Popeye, the Sailorman'

Took me ages as a child to realize, that he was a cartoon character :eek:

The King of Moo

Lapin wrote: »

There'll be wigs on the green I tell ya.


WTF

That comes from, I believe, the 19th century, maybe even late 18th. When men would have fisticuffs, they'd head out to a green, and the first things to hit the grass would usually be their wigs.

Originally posted by Lars1916
'Eat your spinach and you'll be as strong as Popeye, the Sailorman'

Took me ages as a child to realize, that he was a cartoon character

Spinach isn't nearly as nutritious as it's believed to be either.

BarnhallBull

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Is minic a bhris béal duine a shrón

This makes absolutely perfect sense! Are you being sarcastic, or do you not speak Irish?!

1ZRed

"I *could* care less" I get what you mean, but it still annoys me when people say it in a way that doesn't make sense.

Edit: Too late it's already been said :pac:

marcsignal

Lapin wrote: »

There'll be wigs on the green I tell ya.


WTF

I used to wonder about that one too, but it turns out it should be spelled 'Whigs' (an old English term for Conservative Politicians).

I understand it has something to do with Conservative politicians objecting to something, and spilling out on to the green in front of Parliament in protest.

WatchWolf

"Pre-plan".

*shudder*

ejmaztec

The King of Moo wrote: »

That comes from, I believe, the 19th century, maybe even late 18th. When men would have fisticuffs, they'd head out to a green, and the first things to hit the grass would usually be their wigs.

I think it's "bonnets on the green" in Scotland, they obviously nailed the wigs to their heads to stop them getting nicked.

Jimoslimos

The King of Moo wrote: »

To be honest, I could care less.......

Fromthetrees

Michael Jackson is innocent.Ø


I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. [Oscar Wilde]

Fromthetrees

Michael Jackson is innocent.Ø


I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. [Oscar Wilde]

My name is URL

Fromthetrees wrote: »

Ø

'What the fcuk is that yoke?'
- My name is URL, 2012

NegativeCreep

Fromthetrees wrote: »

Michael Jackson is innocent.Ø


I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. [Oscar Wilde]

But..? That's true

MistyCheese

Jimoslimos wrote: »

David Mitchell vid

David Mitchell clearly couldn't care less.

Personally, I could care less... but I can't be bothered.

Fromthetrees

I don't know .

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keith16

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

That even at Christmas time they wouldn't spend money.

Eh this is kinda self explanatory stuff folks...

I was always under the impression that this referred to how one spends Christmas. e.g. "I spent Christmas at home" and that the stinginess was implied by a person not even willing to spend this period of time somewhere, rather than not spending money.

MaxSteele

"They've done studies yano ... 60 percent of the ..." I think you know the rest.

Lollers

My name is URL wrote: »

'What the fcuk is that yoke?'
- My name is URL, 2012

Flying saucer from the '50s

crazy cabbage

when someone says, i slept like a baby. I just look at them and think ooooo so you slept very poorly and woke up crying and screaming to be fed / **** yourself

Although this does make sence it is the exact opposite to the way most people use it. If i am ever in my cousin house i can never get to sleep. I am always asked did i sleep ok to which i reply... oooo yea. I slept like a baby



i am not lieing