Fun sayings or expressions that you know of

[BeckhoffAX5702]

In Twents we often say: "Probleem’n? Poar neem’n!" This expression translates into "Problems? Drink some beer!" Our dialect has so many funny expressions, its difficult to choose one.

 

[Meat Target]

"When you assume, you make an ass of you and me."

MeatGramps once said of a bucktoothed person: "he could eat corn through a picket fence."

 

[clara red bottoms]

Does ebonics count? I use slang liberally

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

dingos breakfast means just take a piss & look aroundwherver you're pissing and that's it

fell out of the ugly tree & hit every branch on the way down - very ugly

 

[Crocodylus Acutus]

Here's some more sayings I like:

• Are you a smart feller, or a fart smeller?
• "You're killin me, Smalls!" (From The Sandlot)
• The whole kit and kaboodle (all of something)
• Skedaddle (to run away)
• When in Rome, do as the Romans do (practice the customs of your surroundings)
• It's all Greek to me (something that can't be understood)
• Pardon my French (often said after something vulgar)
• The lights are on, but nobody's home (someone who isn't mentally all there)
• Too many chiefs in the teepee (Too many people are trying to take charge all at once)

 

[We Are The Witches]

I've heard this from someone one single time, and it's just ridiculous but funny to me, this guy had some interesting sayings.

Pretty sure he said "Okey Mackey, hotel Mackenzie" which was just used to say "OK" but in a really stupid and random way.

 

[Carlos Thin]

"Don't go out with the boys at night if you cannot wake up with the men in the morning."
"A face like a blind cobbler's thumb." particular ugliness
"All over like flies on shit."
"Picking fly shit off black pepper." A useless endeavor
"Like a horse's cock, he's big when he's out." A man who makes a spectacle of himself
"A penny saved is a penny that can't buy you shit." comment on a fruitless endeavor
"Talk for Rome." To never shut the fuck up, or to always speak unnecessarily
"Tits on a bull." Completely useless.
"Now we're sucking diesel." When a plan comes together
"It's a dirty pool that won't cool a hot iron." when you'd have sex with anybody
"If you fell into a bush of nettles, you wouldn't know which one stung you." When you've contracted an STD from loose women, or being careless yourself
"Never had to chase the crow for food." -- to never know hard times
"Never had to go looking for the top of the egg." -- silver spoon upbringing
"Slow boat to Liverpool." -- Irish expression, to make someone have an abortion

 

[We Are The Witches]

- "Más lento que el caballo del malo."

Translated as "slower than the bad guy's horse" (so it means that something is very slow).

Probably coined like that because like in a lot of movies, the bad guy often has a way to easily escape or succeed if it was real life, but the writing has other agenda so they make him lose or die very conveniently. This saying would be a reference to Western/cowboy movies.

 

[We Are The Witches]

I've heard this from someone one single time, and it's just ridiculous but funny to me, this guy had some interesting sayings.

Pretty sure he said "Okey Mackey, hotel Mackenzie" which was just used to say "OK" but in a really stupid and random way.

It's actually "Okey Makey, Walter Mackenzie".

I don't know why he said that.

 

[Doggo]

My favourite which I so rarely get to use, is if something is going really fast, it runs like a raped ape.

 

[Haffhart]

- "Más lento que el caballo del malo."

Translated as "slower than the bad guy's horse" (so it means that something is very slow).

Probably coined like that because like in a lot of movies, the bad guy often has a way to easily escape or succeed if it was real life, but the writing has other agenda so they make him lose or die very conveniently. This saying would be a reference to Western/cowboy movies.

Reminds me of the English phrases "cut to the chase" and "one-horse town" - the first of which is a cinema reference (I don't know about the second).

Growing up my mom would always say "I can't wave a magic wand" in reference to things which she had no power over and just couldn't fix - like me breaking my leg or dropping an ice cream cone. That's how she taught me responsibility and acceptance.

 

[Apustajan apustaja]

"Don't teach your dad how to fuck"=Stop explaining things that are obvious.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

"if in doubt, give it a clout" - one for the adherents of the Fonzarelli school of mechanical repair. Or the Johnny Depp school of wife repair. Allegedly.

 

[Doggo]

"if in doubt, give it a clout" - one for the adherents of the Fonzarelli school of mechanical repair. Or the Johnny Depp school of wife repair. Allegedly.

I prefer the term ‘applied violence.’ Everyone knows of percussive maintenance, though.

 

[We Are The Witches]

- "Peccata minuta"

Expression that comes from latin, but I've only heard it from spanish-speaking folks (very rarely), and was used to describe a small error you made (or someone else), but something that is tolerable. Like let's say you are a couple of minutes late to an appointment with your friend.

 

[MS-09 DOM]

"keep chinking away"
- As described from a past old boss, "Those chinamen used to go work in the mines, but it wasn't the sound of there tools, but the way they worked hehehehe-snort"

"Six in one, half-a-dozen in the other"
- doesn't matter what choice, they both end up being the same. (I find myself explaining this one more lately)

"Like tits on a fish"
- useless

"Didn't know they hired a cowboy"
- person is working unsafe/stupid. Mostly targetted to shipping or movers

 

[Troon_Patrol]

Some I've made up as far as I can recall:

"You're slower than fucking turtle on heroin."

"Fuck you and anyone who looks like you."

"You can steal from all kinds of people but, don't steal from the guy who can bypass your security system at 2 am and you wake up with him standing over you watching you sleep"



Some of favorites:

Fat girls are like mopeds, fun till your friends catch you riding one.

You can be half way to Heaven before the devil even knows you're dead

George Carlin: "You know I never fucked a "10" but one day I managed to fuck 5 different "2"s "

The policeman's natuaral enemy is actually not crime but paperwork.

 

[We Are The Witches]

This is a bit of a joke, but I have to post this here because it's so awesome & funny. They're the phrases used by the sergeant in the Full Metal Jacket movie, but in spanish.

It's extremely vulgar yet humorous, and there are so many that I might as well post the video, the whole footage is gold.

Spoiler: Video

 

[We Are The Witches]

I didn't post this?

- "Shiver me timbers!"

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiver_my_timbers

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"Usually attributed to the speech of pirates in works of fiction. It is employed as a literary device by authors to express shock, surprise, or annoyance. The phrase is based on real nautical slang and is a reference to the timbers, which are the wooden support frames of a sailing ship. In heavy seas, ships would be lifted up and pounded down so hard as to "shiver" the timbers, startling the sailors.

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[Niall Meanwhile]

I love this one I heard from a former landlady: "Al que nunca ha tenido gallinas, hasta la mierda le sabe a huevos" (roughly "if you've never had your own hens, even shit will taste like eggs") I don't know whether it's a Catalan thing or what, since shit seems to be a key element in Catalan folklore.

And one I got from an Ukrainian friend: "the shittier the country, the longer its national anthem". (There's a Saffa version with jackals and tails, but I like this one better since you can come across as much more of a smarmy prick when saying it)