I will contribute here and say that if you think English phrases like this are crazy, you should look at some Spanish ones and what they literally translate to vs. what they are meant when said. Most English-speaking people, when translating, are like whaaaaat? because they haven't heard them mentioned in actual scenarios, but that's what makes it fun. :) Just like in English, the person wasn't REALLY thrown under the bus, but I didn't know that until I was old enough to realize it was just a phrase 😂
Yeah...
One thing my friend says a lot now is that she's "on the struggle bus." (She just got braces and can barely talk normal.) I find it kind of funny.
Even better is when somebody says somebody threw them under the bus, meaning basically snitched on them or gave up their innocence.
You should really say the second one to a non-native English speaker. If you get the response I used to give from taking it literally, you would laugh your ass off for the next five days. And you should consider some of the good ones in Spanish too. It'll have the same effect generally :) (if you know anything about translating)
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There are some pretty unusual phrases here in the American south. A few examples:
-bless your heart
-act like you’ve got some sense
- I’ll snatch you bald headed
-any swingin’ dick
-too big for your britches
"One bird in the hand, is worth three in the bush." My Great Grandma Lucy always used too say about a sure thing being more valuable than the possibility of untold riches. Sometimes, though, it wasn't a metaphor she was using when asking me too bribe Hidy, her doberman spoiled little girl, with a tasty treat too beat the urge too tear out the BlackBerry bushes too get at them pesky birds hidden within. The one incident that canceled that metaphore out was when the dog stirred up the birds and I caught 1 and the two others were bottlenecked into a situation where they could hold still and be pulled out by Grandma, or fly out too be snatched up by Hidy or myself. In that situation, hand, bush too hand, jaws of dog, same difference.
When I try to get someone’s attention and the wrong nearby person responds, sometimes I say “no, not you... you... the bow-legged one“, like Pepa says at the beginning of Shoop.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/4vaN01VLYSQI don’t think anyone has even gotten it since the 90s, but I still persevere, lmfao. Ever feel like you’re really funny but the rest of the world just isn’t slick enough to keep up with you? That’s what I tell myself...😝
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Random note: I've literally "Burst my Britches" jumped from a wall 12 feet up landed in a squat on both feet and my pants burst from my in seam all the way down past my knees...
"Well, bless my soul"
Something my adopted sister once said to me when I was feeling down. She sat beside. me on her bet and lifted my face (I was looking down didn't want to face her) turned my face toward her looked me square in the eyes and said I love you, you know that right? "Never Doubt that I Don't Love you...". I just "burst out laughing" (The quote "" used are to show the (crazy, weird or funny sayings) that I've experienced, heard or said. My friend once thanked me for saving his life... "I was almost unfatally killed" *facepalm* true stories both.Like a bull in a China shop, like grant took Richmond, like flies to crap 😂😂😂
Stuff like that but...
I've got to this ren and stimpy quote sometimesMy wife's grandma would say , "I look like the wreck of the hespers", if she looked a bit unkempt.
Well, it really turned out to be the Hesperus, a ship in Longfellow's writings. If a Southern Lady really doesn't care for someone very much, they will just say in a very studied manner, "Well, bless your heart!"- Here's health to your enemies' enemies!
- May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live.
- May the roof above you never fall in and those gathered beneath it never fall out.
- May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.
- A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
One of my all-time favorite quotes came from a role-playing session with my brother and some of his friends. One of them was giving us a puzzle, and handed around a sheet of paper with a drawing on it consisting of several lines of varying lengths. When it was handed to me, I thought of those tests we'd had in school, where they'd show arrows with the tips bent up or down, and see if you could tell whether it affected the length of the line itself. My brother, seeing my expression and guessing what I was thinking, said "It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one."
I love the people who say there is a light at the end of the tunnel & I say the light at the end of the tunnel could be a freight train.
I'll slap you so hard you're kids will be born dizzy.
If I want any shit out of you, I'll kick it out of you.
Tweedle dee dee.
Jumping Jehosaphat
Spank my butt and call me Nancy.
Eat my shorts.
Fuck me dead.Slap my knee, and call me Shorty. What's your name. John Brown, ask me again and I'll knock you down. Look up, now look down. Look all around. What do you see? A little black monkey trying to hypnotize me.
Oh course I love you, my dick is hard
My parents grew up on farms but when they had me we lived in the city. Whenever I came into the house someone usually says, "Well, look what the cat brought in."
When ever I agree with someone or have something to give I like to say
"that's the one"
with a super thick kiwi accent. It's fun to use it sarcastically too."Weed the Good from the Bad"... my late Mom would always tell us kids that saying and what she really meant is be careful about friends you choose to be your friend cause some can be good and some could be bad?
Money is everything.
I mean... I start off 99% of my conversations with this those 2 words, so whilst it's not quite the greatest answer you'd expect, it's getting late at night so it's the best you're getting for the next few hours! lol
Nothing cool tbh just like bobs your uncle is the only one I really use a lot till someone says but I don't have an uncle Bob and I just laugh
"Shit or get off the pot" - Usually used when someone is taking forever to make a decision.
"Don't let your alligator mouth run over your hummingbird ass" - For when someone is all bark and no bite.There was this kid I passed on my way to soccer practice and he was talking about how fences were being abused and hanged. I almost died laughing lol
you can't argue with a prick
who put a quid in the dickhead
i used to be indecisive but now im not so sureRevenge is a dish best served.
Pissed as your nan's mattress.
Stick out like dog balls on a canary.
Fuck a duck and call it Mildred.
Shit biscuits.
Fudgesicles.
Monkey spunk.
Donkey dick.
Simples...Can't remember who used to tell me this when I was grow up, they would say "your knee high to a grasshopper" mean i was getting tail but never understood the saying because a grasshoppers knees are way above their head and body
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