Yesterday Will Arnett (@ArnettWill) Tweeted: "I'm hard pressed to think of a single situation from which wild horses couldn't drag me away." And he is so right.
There are some phrases that just need to be laid to rest. I think we can all agree that we can get rid of:
There are some phrases that just need to be laid to rest. I think we can all agree that we can get rid of:
It’s nothing to sneeze at.
If I see something of little consequence, such as two
pennies on the ground, I don’t sneeze at them. Who does that?
You can’t kill two birds with one stone.
First of all, I think it depends on how big the stone is.
And perhaps how small the birds are. But second, there are PLENTY of
circumstances under which you can accomplish two goals with one action, such as
picking up apples AND cottonballs while you’re at Wal-Mart. This phrase
is ridiculous. Cease and desist.
It’s raining cats and dogs.
Does you really need me to debunk this one? Let’s get
real: Everyone knows if you even drop a PENNY off the Empire State Building and
it lands on someone’s head, they die. So if it actually rained cats and
dogs, we’d all be pounded 12 feet into the ground. And deader.
I know it like the back of my hand.
Look. You put the back of my hand in a lineup of the backs
of 100 hands, and I MIGHT be able to identify it. Maybe. But the phrase should
really be more like, “I know it like the mole on my arm.” Because I
inspect that much more closely and regularly than the back of my hand. Asymmetry.
Uneven in color. Bigger than a pencil eraser. MELANOMA, PEOPLE. Get with the
program.
Conversely, there are a couple of phrases with which I’m
completely on board:
Don’t cry over spilt milk.
This is SO valid. Don’t stand there and cry. CLEAN IT
UP ALREADY.
That’s water under the bridge.
You’re darn tootin’. LET’S MOVE ON.
6 comments:
Ha Ha...love it
Is that penny thing really true???
I think we might be related somehow because I feel the same way about so many of those!! Ha!
I HATE the phrase, "six of one, half a dozen of the other." I'd just rather people say, "same thing."
My dad had a saying from his neck of the woods... another Southern phrase... when asked, "How are you?", the common reply was "fair to middlin'". I once said that when I was working on a college campus (in the 90's) and a visiting parent showed great shock. It seems that his own father use to say the same. He, too, was from the same 'neck of the woods' and had never heard it said by anyone other than his father.
I bet we southerners have more dumb sayings than the rest of the world!
Beckie
That failbook is FABULOUS. I need to go get a tattoo now...
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