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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).
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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.
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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 
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>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.
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Long thought to be physically impossible for the subspecies homo australis 
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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!)
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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.
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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.
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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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