Favourite saying, or quote.
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I quite liked Dom Cummings's "he's as thick as mince" - although I don't think his target is and also mince in my experience, isn't.
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complaining about the thinness of the fabric, the woman commented - "A duck could eat peas through that"
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This one is from the Royal Navy: As tight as a submarine door!Pebble wrote: ↑3 Feb 2022, 3:56pmmy fav one for that is - "tighter than two coats of paint"Slowtwitch wrote: ↑1 Feb 2022, 5:01am My grandad used to say of mean people 'that man wouldn't give a door a bang'!
What's your favourite?
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My Grandads versions of both of those are quite a bit ruder.Then again most of his old sayings would be considered both racist and sexist these days....because they were!
One of the Team leaders at a Printing firm I worked at got a final written warning for using that!The person he was describing was an Agency worker who came from Nigeria.He was told it was considered racist when directed at Black people!!
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He is so mean he can peel an orange in his pocket.
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Two more descriptives of stupid people:-
If he'd a brain he'd be dangerous.
If his brains were made of dynamite he wouldn't have enough to blow his cap off
A sullen looking person would be described as having lost a tanner and found a threepennybit
If it doesn't rain before tonight it'll go dark
More philosophical;
Make friends with a headwind as it'll only frustrate you if you fight it.
If he'd a brain he'd be dangerous.
If his brains were made of dynamite he wouldn't have enough to blow his cap off
A sullen looking person would be described as having lost a tanner and found a threepennybit
If it doesn't rain before tonight it'll go dark
More philosophical;
Make friends with a headwind as it'll only frustrate you if you fight it.
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"All we are not stares back at what we are"
W H Auden
"All we are not stares back at what we are"
W H Auden
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I think my favourite and one I do use is, "As thick as two short planks"
This was also possibly the first such quote, or play with words that I considered as a child and thought it so clever, how a plank does appear to get thicker the shorter it gets.
This was also possibly the first such quote, or play with words that I considered as a child and thought it so clever, how a plank does appear to get thicker the shorter it gets.
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I used to know a chap I worked with who'd often say at the end of brewtime when we were reluctant to make a start "well this isn't getting the wife a new dress"
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"All we are not stares back at what we are"
W H Auden
"All we are not stares back at what we are"
W H Auden
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Excellent!
A Scottish one: Fools and bairns should never see half-done work.
I once showed a software product in late-stage development to someone from Marketing, and a couple of days later received a command from management to make a "pre-beta" version available to a dealer "for demonstration". Protests went unheard. Next thing we knew the dealer had installed it at a client's place and the client was screaming blue murder since of course the damned thing wasn't fully debugged. A couple of months later the product had such a bad reputation that nobody wanted it. The company went under less than a year later.
Have we got time for another cuppa?
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Couple of my other oft used ones:
"Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn by no other".
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"If you want it cooked, you'll have to wait" - as per notice in restaurant l'Antoine (New Orleans).
"Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn by no other".
and
"If you want it cooked, you'll have to wait" - as per notice in restaurant l'Antoine (New Orleans).
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Said of a parsimonious person
He/She has short arms and long pockets
He/She has short arms and long pockets
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Said of someone who's a bit of an idiot:
'You've got a head full of broken bottles'
With bad teeth:
"a mouth like a row of derelict houses! '
'You've got a head full of broken bottles'
With bad teeth:
"a mouth like a row of derelict houses! '
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Mad as a box of frogs.
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A friend always says 'As mad as a fish'.
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Lighten your day and Google quotes by George Carlin - here's my current fave:
“Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience”
“Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience”
Without my stoker, every trip would only be half a journey