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I've always liked "she looks like she fell out of the ugly tree, and didn't miss a branch," and the simpler "He got run over by the ugly truck."
Now I'll go have some fun at that cliche site - looks pretty entertaining.
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one of my favorite friends is the *king of quips, and he uses the one about the ugly tree, but he says 'and hit every branch on the way down'. i've also heard him utter 'i've seen better legs on a pool table' more than once =) (OUCH!)
didn't we once have a thread about creative insults? fun stuff~ my favorite is saying that a person comes "from the shallow end of the gene pool".
what's the proper term for these things anyhow? quips? idioms? cliches? does anyone use the word "jape"? what exactly does that mean...a one-liner?
ps to hev: i love the cliche site ~ thanks! my favorite is "he's a bubble shy of plumb" =)
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"S/he has a face that would shatter - (plate/cut glass// the mirror)" delete as appropriate
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Me dear old mam used to say that so-and-so "hid behind the door when they were handing out beauty/brains/dexterity/you-name-it".
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Oh i know lots of thoses-- only they are always formed up like this..
When god was handing out good Looks, she thought he said books, and she didn't read...
when god was handing out brains, he thought he said trains, and he already had a set..
and lots of others..
good sense, park bench
money, honey (but not usually god who was handing that out..)
grace,plaice (didn't like fish..)
rhyming slang comments where very common..
to a young woman sasheying down the avenue
Shake it, but don't break it, took your mother 9 months to make it.. is one that comes to mind.
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"She has a face that would shatter glass"
From My Fair Lady, the song But Let a Woman in Your Life:
She'll have a booming boisterous family,
who will descend on you en mass,
she'll have a large wagnarian mother,
with a voice that shatters glass...
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I just heard this one that I thought crossed a *certain line...
"You should've been beaten to death with the ugly stick that got you earlier"
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when god was handing out brains, he thought he said trains, and he already had a set
Helen, I'm so pleased you expanded the subject! We'd been talking about limited facial beauty, but a whole new set of entertaining phrases are available to describe limited brain-power. Just to get the ball rolling ...
as dumb as a doorknob
has the I.Q. of a watermelon
couldn't track an elephant in three feet of snow
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Not to mention Dave Barry's formulation "if you had the sense God gave gravel..."
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couldn't track an elephant in three feet of snow
Just discovered this, under "famous last words", as spoken by Major General John Sedgwich in the American Civil War:
"Why, they couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..."
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