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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 2 1 2 Spiffy piffy #103683 06/11/2003 2:41 AM Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 148 Melbourne, Aus alexis member alexis member Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 148 Melbourne, Aus May I ask what on earth (or off it) piffy is? Is it icing?? I think chalk and cheese can be either incomparable (there's no point comparing pink chalk with blue cheese - there;s no meaningful basis for comparison) or incompatible (they don't really go that well together, IMO). Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Spiffy piffy #103684 06/11/2003 2:47 AM Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina sjm old hand sjm old hand Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina I think chalk and cheese can be either incomparable . . . or incompatible Indubitably they can be both. Bingley and I, however, addressed the matter of how the phrase is used, not how it could be used. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Spiffy piffy #103685 06/11/2003 2:50 AM Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 148 Melbourne, Aus alexis member alexis member Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 148 Melbourne, Aus Indubitably they can be both. Bingley and I, however, addressed the matter of how the phrase is used, not how it could be used. I do use it both ways! And have seen others do so Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Spiffy piffy #103686 06/11/2003 2:56 AM Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina sjm old hand sjm old hand Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina >I do use it both ways! And have seen others do so Well, of course you would - you're Australian. We were talking about how the phrase is used in the English-speaking world. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Rendered speechless #103687 06/11/2003 3:02 AM Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 148 Melbourne, Aus alexis member alexis member Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 148 Melbourne, Aus Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Rendered speechless #103688 06/11/2003 3:04 AM Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina sjm old hand sjm old hand Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina Long thought to be physically impossible for the subspecieshomo australis Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Like a cheap suit #103689 06/11/2003 11:11 AM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park back on track- i really don't understand this one.. s/he's not as green as s/he is cabbage looking... and as for chalk and cheese, to me , it means very different in character, two organic things as different as possible, (neither one good or bad, just differnt). and i don't think it means rows/fighting with the disagreements.. i think Jackie and i are chalk and cheese.. totally different backgrounds, and ways of thinking.. and yet i still love Jackie, (and think her a bit strange) and i have no doubts of her affection for me (and suspect she is confident of my strangeness!) of course it could just be we don't fight because we are both well mannered... but an other factor is our one common interest (both chalk and cheese are sometimes white!) in words. If it weren't for this board, i suspect not only would we have never met, but if we did, we would have no interest in meeting a second time! it not the we arguee, its we see things differently! (and its obvious from posts, she gets jokes i don't, and visa versa!) my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Like a cheap suit #103690 06/11/2003 11:11 PM Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 148 Melbourne, Aus alexis member alexis member Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 148 Melbourne, Aus In reply to: back on track- i really don't understand this one.. s/he's not as green as s/he is cabbage looking... green=naive, is my understanding - so you may look like a cabbage (ie green), but it's just your look - you're not as naive as you appear. Can also be a nicely confusing insult about someone looking like a cabbage, of course. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Like a cheap suit #103691 06/12/2003 1:14 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory My father once boasted of a fast car he had owned in his younger days that it "ran like a scalded dog." A friend at work once remarked that he was "busier than a dog with two...." Well, maybe I should let your imagination finish that one lest the gutter police fine me. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Cabbage looking #103692 06/12/2003 7:07 AM Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK dxb Pooh-Bah dxb Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK you're not as naive as you appear The expression was intended to imply an element of deceit, as far as I remember it. So it was that you were not as naive as you pretended to be. 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