Obscure sayings?

I like 'digging for gold' if you itch your ear or butt.

 

This thread is full of blue mud.

 

'putting two and two together'

That one seems confusing. I can see putting one and one together to make two. Or to connect the dots between two things.

Putting two and two together means you're making a thing out of 4 other things.



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American like the idioms 'here you are', 'there you go', 'there you are', and 'here you go'.

People outside the U.S. sometimes ask, what does that stuff mean?

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I say lots of stupid sayings all the time.... I frequently say 'in my neck of the woods' as well as 'it's going to be curtains for you" and "That really burns my biscuit" I have no idea where they come from, but I live in the sticks and everyone is full of things like that.

 

Plumb over there. Beat the tar out of someone.

 

Happier than a pig in shit.

 

"Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle"

I mean.....wtf?

 

I also like "nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs"

 

See a man about a dog


What we were always told as kids when we wanted to know where the growns-ups were going...

To see a man about a dog...​

 

Like a blind dog in a meat house.

 

egg on your face

 

"gotcha over a barrell" better than taking a turn IN the barrell,I guess.

 

"easier than shooting fish in a barrel"
if you already have the fish in a barrel why do you need to shoot them?

 

to egg someone on. On what?

 

slapheads.

 

Uncle!

(which means to surrender)



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Hold your horses

 

Out of the frying pan and into the fire

 

shoot the lights out.