Attention: Please take a moment to consider our terms and conditions before posting.

Great sayings/expressions ...

2»

Comments

  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,424
    nothing to do with chimpanzee testicles.

    the balls refer to cannon balls. the monkey was a plate, usually brass, that stood the balls, pyramid fashion on the decks old ships.
    when the temperaure fell below zero, the wet plate would freeze causing the cannon balls to slide off the ice.
    hence it's so cold it would freeze the balls off a brass monkey.
    at least that is what i'm led to believe.
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,424
    where does the expression 'clever cloggs' come from?
  • Badger
    Badger Posts: 4,842
    That's the way the cookie crumbles go.
  • ThreadKiller
    ThreadKiller Posts: 8,622
    all dressed up to the nines
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    to every side theres a corner
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,424
    [cite]Posted By: lucy lou[/cite]to every side theres a corner

    if that side is charlton the 'corner' soon becomes a goal kick to the opposition ;-(
  • bingaddick
    bingaddick Posts: 8,184
    [cite]Posted By: 3blokes[/cite]How about 'it's gone tits up' ?

    Anyone know the origin of that?

    Found this on a website

    "Believe origin is early floating navigation instruments in aeroplanes designed to turn over when not working so as not to mislead pilot. Undersides resembled a pair of tits."

    So there!
  • bingaddick
    bingaddick Posts: 8,184
    [cite]Posted By: PeakeysRocket[/cite]all dressed up to the nines

    Origin believed to be:

    The phrases 'to the nines', or 'to the nine', were used to indicate perfection - the highest standards. That was in use in the 18th century, as here from William Hamilton's Epistle to Ramsay, 1719:

    "How to the nines they did content me."
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,421
    edited March 2007
    heard one today, I hadn`t heard for ages, when discribing a girl who works for his company, "she bangs like a shed door"
  • bingaddick
    bingaddick Posts: 8,184
    [cite]Posted By: the_covered_end[/cite]heard one today, I hadn`t heard for ages, when discribing a girl who works for his company, "she bangs like shed door"

    I prefer the Blackadder variation of this:

    "she goes like the privy door when the plagues in town"

  • Sponsored links:



  • Charlton Dan
    Charlton Dan Posts: 4,937
    [cite]Posted By: bingaddick[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: the_covered_end[/cite]heard one today, I hadn`t heard for ages, when discribing a girl who works for his company, "she bangs like shed door"

    I prefer the Blackadder variation of this:

    "she goes like the privy door when the plagues in town"

    Similarly heard one the other day.

    "Her morals are like her knickers. Non-existent"
  • Charlton Dan
    Charlton Dan Posts: 4,937
    She goes over like Bambi on Ice / One legged man doing the hokey-cokey
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,882
    "Like a tit in a trance"

    ?
  • orpingtonaddick
    orpingtonaddick Posts: 265
    Bangs like a sh*thouse door in the wind...
    As useful as a one legged man in an arse kicking competition...
    Like trying to nail a jelly to the ceiling (i.e. difficult)...
    Volatile market movements: up and down like a whore's draws
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,231
    Face like a robber's Dog.
    (A favourite of Da1's)

    Gay as a bag of butterflies.
  • Charlton Dan
    Charlton Dan Posts: 4,937
    Camp as a row of pint tents
    As useful as a chocolate tea pot / fireguard
    As mad as a bag of cats
    As sharp as a bowling ball
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,421
    as much use as an ash tray on a motorbike
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,882
    "Bob's your uncle"

    Er ...... no - he's not.
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,424
    [cite]Posted By: the_covered_end[/cite]heard one today, I hadn`t heard for ages, when discribing a girl who works for his company, "she bangs like a shed door"

    while the tone has been lowered.

    "well i'll be blown"
    if only.
  • bingaddick
    bingaddick Posts: 8,184
    My favourites

    1. in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king
    2. what are you going to do for a face when Godzilla wants his a*se back
    3. pass it, I couldn't even swallow it
    4. done up like a kipper
    5. your a*se is grass and I'm a lawn mower
    6. are you talking to me or chewing a brick? Either way you'll lose your teeth
    7. I'll put my cock on the block

  • Sponsored links:



  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,236
    At the West Ham game I was used the phrase "dead cat bounce" to describe Curbs win over West Ham in his first game. Person I was talking to had never heard it before.

    I believe it comes from the stock market where shares always make a slight rise after a huge fall in the same way that a dead cat will bounce after being thrown off a tall building. In niether case will the rise be long lasting.
  • Charlton Dan
    Charlton Dan Posts: 4,937
    I was sweating like........

    1) A whore in church
    2) A nonce outside a school
    3) A blind homosexual in a hot dog factory
  • carlsberg
    carlsberg Posts: 1,383
    or a blind lesbian in a fish shop.

Categories

“Marketplace”