|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 1,027
old hand
|
old hand
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 1,027 |
Faintly smelling YART in the air:
"all the chances of a snowflake in hell"
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 7,210
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 7,210 |
what roast swan tastes like anyway
ouch!
formerly known as etaoin...
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 180
member
|
|
member
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 180 |
From my husband: Sharp as a marble.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 1,156
old hand
|
|
old hand
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 1,156 |
My Mum/Mom says "better than a kick in the teeth", which is what I also use now. [turning into my mother -e]
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 742
old hand
|
|
old hand
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 742 |
>"all the chances of a snowflake in hell"
Or, my favourite, Douglas Adams' version - "a whelk's chance in a supernova"
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 1,624
Pooh-Bah
|
|
Pooh-Bah
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 1,624 |
"Going like a cut cat" ...
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 2,154
Pooh-Bah
|
|
Pooh-Bah
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 2,154 |
My mothers "more roses (or whatever) than you can shake a stick at" and "six of one, half a dozen of the other" for it doesn't matter which.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 2,636
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 2,636 |
A couple I like so well, I snicked them from G.I. Gurdjieff "Everything is just roses, roses." "If you go on a spree then go the whole hog, including the postage." Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, a trilogy written by G.I. Gurdjieff is a very interesting trip if anyone is wondering what to read this summer. I think he might have kissed the Blarney Stone at some point in his life 
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 180
member
|
|
member
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 180 |
To express alacrity in preying on someone, verbally or physically: "He was on that boy like white on rice."
To express a large quantity: "They have more [insert commodity here] than Carter's has pills."
The latter expression hails from the southern side of the Mason-Dixon Line, I think. It's a reference to a now defunct product known as Carter's Little Liver Pills, still on the market when I moved to Atlanta in 1963 but not much later than that.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803 |
I knew the Carter's comparison *as "than Carter's has little liver pills." This from a Wisconsin farm girl mother or an urban northern father. It was a few years earlier than 1963.
|
|
|
|
Forums16
Topics13,915
Posts230,174
Members9,198
| |
Most Online4,606
Sep 17th, 2025
|
|
|
0 members (),
927
guests, and
3
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|
