Expressions That Don't Make Sense

Whatever....

Well, I don't. . . . Uh, I mean I don't like none of 'em.

Quite right -- "shit on a shingle" was army slang for creamed chipped beef on toast.

As for the question "Whom the hell eats it?" -- please! If you don't know how to use the word "whom," then just don't use it.

Oh no! This is one of my pet peeves. The expression is "I couldn't care less"

whomever dude

And I don't care at all. Still.

If someone comes forth and "explains" my comments, I won't give a rat's ass.

Another French one that should be imported and Americanized:

He farts higher than his ass!

you are so fucking cute.....

Concerning "A fly in the ointment", ScaredLittleBoy "hit the nail on the head." (Obviously "hit the nail on the head" means to be accurate, as in hitting the head of the nail with the hammer and NOT hitting your thumb. Ouch!)

It probably comes from this verse in the Bible:
"Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour" (Ecclesiastes 10:1 KJV)
from: Re: Too big for your britches

: : You are acting "big," "uppity," above your station, etc., to the point that you are too large to fit in your slacks/britches/pants[/trousers].

: ...britches, colloquial variant of breeches, means pants [or trousers]. The OED comments thus: "e. Fig. phr. to get, grow, etc., too big for one's boots (breeches, etc.), to become conceited, put on airs.

: ..."Too big for your boots" or "To big for your britches" are also often said to children, the implication being that the child is insisting that they be treated as older (i.e. bigger) than they are in reality (their real age being measured by the actual size of their clothing).

And for Monster, who always has great posts that I like reading, I found this:

“Whom” has been dying an agonizing death for decades—you’ll notice there are no Whoms in Dr. Seuss’s Whoville.

I love this entry:who/whom. It explains why so many people, including myself, get confused. I now just use who all the time to keep it simple... for me.

And finally, just for ZOS23xy ;)

"I don't give a rat's ass" is similar to the more polite "It isn't worth a hill of beans".

Another way of saying how much one doesn't care, but I cannot, "for the life of me," find the origins of either one. By the way, when I said "I cannot for the life of me," it meant I cannot at all, and I cannot, "for the life of me," find the origins of that phrase, either. :(

I've never liked the expression "it takes one to know one." It's just saying "okay, you're whatever I am too."

Exactly!

"It takes one to know one" is usually used in a mocking or derogative way. When someone says someone else is an idiot, or whatever derogatory term, a reply could be "It takes one to know one," meaning that only someone who is also an idiot would recognize another idiot.

"Only a person with identical character traits would be able to recognize those traits in someone else. Often used as a curt rejoinder to deflect an accusation; you're only saying that about me because it's true of you. Originated in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century."
From "Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings" by Gregory Y. Titelman (Random House, New York, 1996).

Here you go, Domisoldo. I found these and they made my day. lol

French Expressions you didn’t learn in French class

Il pète plus haut que son cul. / He is pretentious.
(literal: He farts higher than his ass.)

Il est coiffé comme un dessous de bras. / He’s having a bad hair day. (His hair is dressed like an armpit.)

J’ai la tête dans le cul ce matin. / I have a lot of trouble waking up this morning.
(My head is in my ass this morning.)

Il faut que j’aille couler un bronze. / I need to take a dump.
(I need to cast a bronze sculpture.)

Il secoue le poireau. / He’s masturbating. (He’s shaking the leek.)

Il va degorger le poireau. / He’s going to piss.
(He’s going to squeeze out the leek.)

Il branle le mammouth. / He procrastinates.
(He jerks off the mammoth.)

Il se fait des couilles en or. / He makes a lot of money.
(He is making himself golden balls.)

Cette fille, c’est un thon. / That girl is very ugly.
(This girl is a tuna fish.)

Il n’a jamais trempé son biscuit. / He is still a virgin.
(He has never dipped his cookie.)


Il nous en chie une pendule. / He’s making a big fuss about it.
(He’s shitting a wall clock about it.)

Il nous en chie une pendule à treize coups. / He’s making a VERY big fuss about it.
(He’s shitting a thirteen-stroke wall clock about it.)

C’est un enculeur de mouches. / He’s a nitpicker.
(He screws the flies.)

Il a le cul bordé de nouilles. / He is extremely lucky.
(He has noodles all around his ass.)

Il chie de la broue. / he’s lying.
(Brew is coming out of his ass.)

As far as I'm aware, if you call someone a lemon, it means they're a lesbian. lmfao. xD Or acting like one. Just like you'd say "That's gay that like." Well I would. xD

He thinks who the hell he is.

8 days to Sunday wrong.

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Originally Posted by rec3000 This makes perfect sense to me.

It means you're acting grown while still a child.

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Originally Posted by ScaredLittleBoy A fly in the ointment.

That is what I thought as well.

IMO the worst expression ever to not make sense is:

"I'm not doing nothing"