Where do sayings come form and how many does it take to catch on?

[Winonesoon]

"More than welcome" How can you be more the Welcome. You're either welcome or not.


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[DBOY3141]

"More than welcome" How can you be more the Welcome. You're either welcome or not.


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lol...i always say "more than welcome"....can't recall where I heard it from years ago...but it's always stuck

 

[Winonesoon]

"This Beyond Comprehension" well if it it's beyond why are you commenting?

 

[Winonesoon]

Legally Drunk. What the heck does that mean?

 

[Tabascocat]

I could care less…….

It is ‘I couldn’t care less’ and that is the lowest one can go

 

[Runwildboys]

"More than welcome" How can you be more the Welcome. You're either welcome or not.


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More than just welcome. You're not just welcome; you're wanted.

 

[jsb357]

six of one, half dozen of the other...

 

[Runwildboys]

Legally Drunk. What the heck does that mean?

Guess it means you're not driving...or in public...or on probation.

 

[Runwildboys]

"There's more than one way to skin a cat."

Well of course there is, but there's only one right way.

 

[Winonesoon]

More than just welcome. You're not just welcome; you're wanted.

 

[Winonesoon]

six of one, half dozen of the other...

Bored of saying. "It doesn't matter"?

Unless it's a bakers dozen. Then we have to account for one.

 

[Winonesoon]

"in your own words" WTH does that mean? You have words different than others? I've never made up new word in my life. They were God given.

Is it a literal insult or does it just simply mean "As you see it"?

 

[Runwildboys]

"in your own words" WTH does that mean? You have words different than others? I've never made up new word in my life. They were God given.

Is it a literal insult or does it just simply mean "As you see it"?

It means "don't just copy what someone else said." For instance, don't plagiarize.

 

[CouchCoach]

110% effort does not exist.

 

[CouchCoach]

Don't give me all of that who shot John. This saying was around well before JFK was even born.

 

[CouchCoach]

She'll tell you how the cow ate the cabbage.

 

[CouchCoach]

My Mom's two favorites to use on me were:

"You'd argue with a sign post". See the legally drunk one above.

"You'd complain if you were hung with a new rope". This was the most perplexing one because a) I would be dead and B) an old frayed rope might break and I could scamper off but the most disturbing part was talking about hanging me. No question about it, I was a handful but none of it deserved such harsh and permanent punishment.

 

[CouchCoach]

My Dad's best friend when I was growing up had two that I liked but didn't understand the second one until I was older.

"He's as sharp as a mashed potato sandwich".

"You listen to him and you'll be wearing straw hats in the winter time". Men used to wear hats and they were seasonal like white shoes for women shouldn't be worn after Labor Day lest they run into Kathleen Turner near a phone booth.

 

[Runwildboys]

"He got the s*** end of the stick!"
Comes from frontier days (I believe) before toilet paper, where leaves were hard to come by.

 

[Oz-of-Cowboy-Country]

Don't judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes.

You are what you do. A thief is a thief and a liar is a liar. So I'm going to judge his butt by his own actions and I don't have to walk a mile in his shoes to do that.