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Cardigan-wearing man
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In the Uk, a lot our phrases come from various sports: sticky wicket, horses for courses etc...... I guess the same is true of the US. We've all heard the 'three strikes and out' thingie (taken from your version of rounders, I believe) but I'm sure there are others....
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11-12-2006, 07:19 PM
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Thats "Miss Zipper Neck" to you.
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11-12-2006, 07:33 PM
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Cardigan-wearing man
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is 'hook, line and sinker' also used in the US?
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I *like* wearing cardigans...... my current favourite is an orange cable-knit with real leatherette buttons. |
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11-12-2006, 07:49 PM
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Read? I only know how to write.
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Cellar tag lines What it means to be an American |
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11-12-2006, 07:56 PM
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To shreds, you say?
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Some Maine-risms:
"Jeezum Crow" "Jeezum Crow bar" (pronounced crow-bah) "I'll be jiggered up a hemlock" "Can't get there from here" Ahh, I'll think of more.
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11-12-2006, 11:12 PM
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Another American (I think) phrase: "to bone up on" something, as in to study a subject intensely for some purpose.
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11-12-2006, 11:18 PM
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The whole nine yards.
I always thought this was derived from football by someone who probably didn't last very long as a coach but found out a while back that it actually refers to the length of a string a bullets that you see guys feeding into a machine gun in WWII footage. Balls to the wall. Somebody's gonna have to help me out with this one. I have a feeling that this one might not have originated in America even though its used here a lot.
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11-12-2006, 11:25 PM
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The future is unwritten
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Freeze the balls of a brass monkey.
Colder than a witch's tit/heart. Bumps on a log. 
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11-12-2006, 11:48 PM
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Management Consultant
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1. Mingya!
2. S'up?
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11-12-2006, 11:51 PM
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I can hear my ears
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i go through phases with sayings. i dont know if their origins are strictly american, but I'm a 'merican, and i heard them in America:
All the farts came out of the blanket: gotten to the truth of the matter dumber than a bag of hair: self explanatory tear that up! : i'd like to copulate vigorously with that person i wouldn't fuck her with your dick: i'd prefer not to copulate with her because i fear contracting venerial disease
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11-13-2006, 02:54 AM
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Oh Oh...
sticks out like dogs balls - thats really obvious useless as a nun's nasty - not very helpful useless as tits on a bull - not very helpful either full as a fat ladies sock - gee, I think I've eaten too much paper bag material - a person of not great appeal, who's only chance of getting laid would be whilst adorning a paper bag on their head 2 paper bag material - a really unappealing person, warranting the addition of a secondary paper bag, in case the first one would malfunction. |
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11-13-2006, 10:45 AM
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About as pointless as Tits on a Bulldog - unnecessary or as useful as Tits on a Bulldog - unhelpful Although I think the paper bag jokes started as male, I've heard the phrase Double Bagger used differently by women It describes a man who sleeps around - ie you wouldn't risk sex with him unless he was using two condoms (double bagged)
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still says videotape
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11-13-2006, 10:44 PM
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Piggly Wiggly three-bagger takes a touch of explanation as to its antecedents. Piggly Wiggly is a fairly widely distributed grocery store chain, mostly in the Old South; thus, paper grocery bags, along with the obvious suggestion about this ungainly sex partner you're putting up with. One bag for you and two over her head, just in case her first bag tears open! Late in her Navy years, my wife once delivered herself of the expletive, "Son of a syphilitic slime-dog!" in public hearing. A little later, a couple of callow young seamen sidled up to her to ask for a repeat, that they might take notes. Ah, educating the young and eager... Lock, stock, and barrel -- precisely synonymous with hook, line, and sinker. Lists the main components of a flintlock rifle. A Southernism: eat up with (something) -- suffering greatly, said with a strong, groaning emphasis on "up." "I'm about eat up with the dumb-ass" isn't about anybody but oneself: "boy, was I fucking stupid!" -- rightly said if you just deliberately tried to drive your classic-car hot-rod over a new sinkhole and you're watching its taillights just going under. "How's the arthritis?" "I'm about eat up with it." Airhead continues to develop: "Blow in my ear, honey, I need a refill." "If you stuck a pressure gauge in her ear, it'd draw about 790 Torr." In even worse mental case than the kind of thing Eeyore railed about re the unintelligent: ". . .just have some gray fluff in their heads that got blown in by mistake." My uncle reports from his time working in the UK for Procter and Gamble that "all set" in the sense of "we have enough" was a phrase that Englishmen didn't understand; telling a waitress inquiring if there was anything else she might get them that "no thanks, we're all set" left her nonplused.
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