Comments on: Strange Idioms And Phrases

By: David

David — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:02:24 +0000

Bent as a nine bob note = queer

By: jenie=)

jenie=) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:06:01 +0000

when i sneeze: i say “squeeze me!”

(not really an idiom but an expression)

By: Ella

Ella — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:38:32 +0000

I’ve herd these:

Loose lips sink ships. (information can )leak to the enemy)
Who let the cat out of the bag? (who told the secret?)
Spilling the beans. (see above)
Caught red handed. (caught in the act, basically)
On cloud nine. (in good times, i suppose)
I’d Rather Have a Bottle in Front of Me than a Frontal Labotomy (I’d rather be drunk than crazy)
Spilling the beans.
Up the creek without a paddle.
In the limelight.
Schadenfreude
It’s raining cats and dogs.
Curiosity Killed the Cat
knee high to a grasshopper (young)
at sixes and sevens (distraught)
stool pigeon (a person who betrays their friend)
Caught Red Handed.
Harder than Herding Cats
As busy as a bee.
If I Had Eight Hours to Chop Down a Tree, I Would Spend the First Six Hours Sharpening the Axe (success in preparation)
As Easy as Pie (easy)
Three Sheets to the Wind (really drunk)
all that glitters is not gold

… I’ve met a lot of very strange people, so I know a lot of these sorts of things.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:25:18 +0000

I once got a letter from my dad that described the weather outside as “raining like a tall cow pissing on a flat rock”, and my grandmother used to say “the devil is beating his wife” whenever it was raining while sunny.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:37:27 +0000

I’ve grown up with the expression…”nervous as a whore in church”, which is an oldie but, a goodie!