FabSwingers.com forum: What the fuck does that phrase mean!

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Ever hear a common phrase and wonder what it means or where it came from?

"You're a stick in the mud" for example

Educate me please

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By *orwegian BlueMan
over a year ago

Iceland, but Aldi is closer..

Isn't that what Google is for?

And looking yourself up too apparently...

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Isn't that what Google is for?

And looking yourself up too apparently...

Why would I use google to see what phrases other fabbers don't understand?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

UNLOS.- I have no idea.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Such as "piece of cake " you mean ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cut your nose off to spite your face, like where did it originate from? Did someone actually do it?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'd like to know why people wear shirts in the shower

trying to save on their laundry bill no doubt

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Such as "piece of cake " you mean ?

No, that's not a phrase, its the name for a portion of cake smaller than the whole

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I'd like to know why people wear shirts in the shower

trying to save on their laundry bill no doubt

Honestly couldn't tell you. Never done it myself

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By *unguya2zMan
over a year ago

coventry..ish

Bob's your uncle.....Err so.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Ever hear a common phrase and wonder what it means or where it came from?

"You're a stick in the mud" for example

Educate me please"

Metaphorical phrases relating to movement (or in this case lack of!)

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Ever hear a common phrase and wonder what it means or where it came from?

"You're a stick in the mud" for example

Educate me please

Metaphorical phrases relating to movement (or in this case lack of!)"

Thanks, I owe you a pint

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Ever hear a common phrase and wonder what it means or where it came from?

"You're a stick in the mud" for example

Educate me please

Metaphorical phrases relating to movement (or in this case lack of!)

Thanks, I owe you a pint

I'll hold you to that! (There's another)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

'Different kettle of fish'. I've always thought that sounds weird. I looked it up on The Phrase Finder and got the answer.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You're absolutely fucked

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Ever hear a common phrase and wonder what it means or where it came from?

"You're a stick in the mud" for example

Educate me please

Metaphorical phrases relating to movement (or in this case lack of!)

Thanks, I owe you a pint

I'll hold you to that! (There's another)"

What does that phrase mean? There could be another pint in it for you

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By *ieman300Man
over a year ago

Best Greggs in Cheshire East

"Bob's your uncle.....Err so."

I always say bobs your auntie.

People look at me funny but it amuses me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Well I'll be damned" why would I.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'll be a monkeys uncle

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

The dogs bollocks.

What's good about them?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Bob's your uncle.....Err so."

and fannys your aunt....that's the whole saying

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sweet as a nut?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The dogs bollocks.

What's good about them?"

you best ask a dog as they keep licking them

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By *oiluvfunMan
over a year ago

Penrith

'As square as a cucumber'

Oh, I made that one up............

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

"'As square as a cucumber'

Oh, I made that one up............

Cool as a cucumber. Are they actually cool unless they're kept in the fridge?

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By *aul1973HullMan
over a year ago

East Hull

"Ever hear a common phrase and wonder what it means or where it came from?

"You're a stick in the mud" for example

Educate me please"

someone who is old-fashioned and too serious and avoids enjoyable activities

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By *aul1973HullMan
over a year ago

East Hull

"UNLOS.- I have no idea.

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By *aul1973HullMan
over a year ago

East Hull

"I'll be a monkeys uncle

It was originally a sarcastic remark made by creationists.The notion "that people were descended from apes was considered blasphemous...by Darwin's contemporaries", and it was for this reason that the sarcastic phrase came into use

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By *oiluvfunMan
over a year ago

Penrith

'Geography bites.'

I made that one up too

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

If you saw some mud ... And someone was stuck in it .....

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

The final straw.

What kind of straws were they?

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By *aul1973HullMan
over a year ago

East Hull

"The dogs bollocks.

What's good about them?"

It may be linked to an associated phrase - 'stand out like a dog's balls', that is, 'outstanding'

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By *aul1973HullMan
over a year ago

East Hull

"The final straw.

What kind of straws were they?"

The last straw that broke the camels back.

The final additional small burden that makes the entirety of one's difficulties unbearable.

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

Cut the mustard.

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By *aul1973HullMan
over a year ago

East Hull

"Sweet as a nut?

the phrase dates from a time before processed sugar, when nuts would have been considered quite sweet for the palate of the time. Or that the nut referred to is the coconut

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By *aul1973HullMan
over a year ago

East Hull

"Cut the mustard. "

Refers to being unsuitable for the job.

- Mustard seed, which is hard to cut with a knife on account of its being small and shiny.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Cut the mustard.

Refers to being unsuitable for the job.

- Mustard seed, which is hard to cut with a knife on account of its being small and shiny."

You must be a fucking legend at parties

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By *hubaysiWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

A boss I worked for used to say 'it's like an Albatross stuck up a chimney' - meaning challenging situation! WTF I would think...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Turned a blind eye....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'd like to know why people wear shirts in the shower

trying to save on their laundry bill no doubt

I used to do that with one of my expensive footy shirts after my mrs had ruined one of them - lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'll be a monkeys uncle

So your saying I am a monkeys uncle

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That's the last one night stand with bubbles I go on

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By *hubaysiWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

"I'd like to know why people wear shirts in the shower

trying to save on their laundry bill no doubt

I used to do that with one of my expensive footy shirts after my mrs had ruined one of them - lol"

Any reason why you couldn't wash them yourself?

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By *unguya2zMan
over a year ago

coventry..ish

"Bob's your uncle.....Err so.

and fannys your aunt....that's the whole saying

I'm still none the wiser

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By *unguya2zMan
over a year ago

coventry..ish

Something about the foot of our stairs!

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By *unguya2zMan
over a year ago

coventry..ish

I don't get me started when a thunderstorm was happening,knives,mirrors thunderbolt coming down the chimney so you had to open the front door so it got out the house.absolutley mad

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The dogs bollocks.

What's good about them?"

I don't know if it's true, but I was always told that the "Meccano" toy construction kits originally came in fitted boxes, in two sizes, made in Liverpool.

With very typical Liverpool humour, the "Box Standard" and "Box DeLuxe" quickly became know as "Bog Standard" and "Dog's Bollux"....

Even if it isn't true - then it really should be!

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By *icassolifelikeMan
over a year ago

Luton

An old army phrase "You're in your own time now........"

Bullshit we were!

We had no idea what it meant as it was all a lie!!

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By *hubaysiWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

Running round the houses - chasing information

Holding a gun to our heads - pressuring us

Like a sack of potatoes - lazy

My boss is the king of phrases!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The dogs bollocks.

What's good about them?"

I think it because dogs can lick their own bollocks

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Happy as Larry, who is Larry?

Over the moon? To me if your over the moon your in trouble

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

'Broke the camel's back'. I always found that a weird one.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Fancy a fuck?"

What does that mean? No-one's ever asked me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Shitting bricks.

I've heard it used by worried folk. But I reckon even the slackest of bum holes would need a fair degree of perseverance to negotiate that.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I'd like to know why people wear shirts in the shower

trying to save on their laundry bill no doubt

I used to do that with one of my expensive footy shirts after my mrs had ruined one of them - lol

Any reason why you couldn't wash them yourself? "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"'Broke the camel's back'. I always found that a weird one. "

Think the phrase is "the last straw that broke the camels back" ie overloading or overdoing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's funny when I say some Ozzie ones here - I forget and they slip out ....

He's got Buckleys - means no chance

His blood is worth bottling - he is a good bloke

I've had a dingos breakfast - no food

Something I don't hear from British chaps - I've cracked a fat - means the chap has an erection

Fair suck of the sav! (Was a savoly originally - a sausage with red skin on it) Means sort of shock, surprise and disbelief

Been on the turps - drinking

It's Ridgy-didge - means it's real

Come a gutser- had a fall - especially of ur bike

I do miss some of the sayings from home .... writing them out omg they are funny - no wonder u lot laugh at us at times

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The dogs bollocks.

What's good about them?

I don't know if it's true, but I was always told that the "Meccano" toy construction kits originally came in fitted boxes, in two sizes, made in Liverpool.

With very typical Liverpool humour, the "Box Standard" and "Box DeLuxe" quickly became know as "Bog Standard" and "Dog's Bollux"....

Even if it isn't true - then it really should be!

Despite this link being shown as part of a QI episode, it's not true.

There is a possible link to the phrase 'stand out like a dog's balls,' meaning 'outstanding.' But there's not much evidence to prove which expression was first. However, it is most likely a nonsense term, like bees knees and cats whiskers, that has become common place in today's society.

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By *eady and Willing 9Man
over a year ago

Wherever the party is @

"UNLOS.- I have no idea.

User no longer on site"

Thank you. Always thougt wtf that ment ha

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By *est Wales WifeCouple
over a year ago

Near Carmarthen

"Cut your nose off to spite your face, like where did it originate from? Did someone actually do it?"

Well you did ask!

Meaning: "Dissadvantage yourself in order to do harm to an adversary."

Origin:

The precise wording 'cut off your nose to spite your face' doesn't appear in print until the 18th century. Versions of proverbs that mean much the same thing date back to the Tudor era. John Heywood's A Dialogue Conteynyng Prouerbes and Epigrammes, 1562 list this entry under "Of Spite":

If there be any, as I hope there be none,

That would lese [lose] both his eyes to lese his foe one,

Then fear I there be many, as the world go'th,

That would lese one eye to lese their foes both.

Grose's 1796 edition of the Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue came a little closer to the current form:

"He cut off his nose to be revenged of his face. Said of one who, to be revenged on his neighbour, has materially injured himself."

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By *eady and Willing 9Man
over a year ago

Wherever the party is @

"Shitting bricks.

I've heard it used by worried folk. But I reckon even the slackest of bum holes would need a fair degree of perseverance to negotiate that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Letting your hair down? I said it to someone earlier and then thought wtf does that even mean?

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By *hubaysiWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

Talking the hinde legs off a donkey.....what! Lol

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