Call them fractured phrases, silly sayings or idiot idioms. Whatever you call them I had fun thinking them up. I hope you have some fun reading them.
a kettle of fish out of water
a stitch in time saves is a penny earned
roses are red, violets are blue moon, you saw me standing alone
a fool and his money that's what I want
how does it feel to be on your own like a rolling stone gathers no moss
you only live once upon a time in the west
if you love somebody set them free as a bird now, and this bird you'll never change
absence makes the heart of my heart, I love that melody
it ain't over till the fat lady sings went the strings of my heart
we'll cross that bridge over troubled water I will lay me down
a fool at 40 is a fool if you think it's over
a long row to ho, ho, ho Merry Christmas
a watched pot never boil, boil, toil and trouble
about face the music
ace in the hole in one
Achille's heel, boy, heel
Adam's apple of my eye
age before beauty and the beast
leader of the pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
all bets are off to the races
heaven's above the call of duty
all that glitters is not gold diggers
an arm and a leg up
as cold as ice, ice baby
as tired as a doggie in the window
as the crow flies like a banana
asleep at the wheel on the bus goes round and round
at the end of the day-o, daylight come and I wanna go home
a stitch in time saves nine men out
18 comments:
I think you let the cat (lady) out of the bag on this one.
CL: Hey, the early bird gets two in the bush.
Hee hee. The warped sense of humor is making its rounds this morn!
And I want that fool and his money too!
Heh, heh. It's always fun to visit here.
One complaint: You mixed Foreigner with Vanilla Ice? That's just sooooo wrong!
;-)
Quirks: A bird in the hand gets the worm. I pity the fool and his money are soon parted.
00dozo: Ice, ice baby with the dishwater! (hee, hee)
Life would be so boring without idioms! I loved how you mixed these up with people are strange love strange highs and strange lows! (Did I do it right?) - G
I still don't understand how you manage to think of these clever quotes, quips and otherwise funny sayings. I'm jealous!
G: I'm kinda laughing 'cause i get the first part but have no idea what the idiom in the second part is. But, nevertheless, it's funny.
Ha, this was fun! I bet you're like that cat whose swallow didn't make a summer now, huh?
Don: I'm just wired that way. It's both a blessing and a curse. Sometimes I just can't stop myself.
Ziva: More like a canary in a coal mine, going down, down now.
(Psst! It's "bathwater", not "dishwater" - sorry, it must be the 'Frank' in me. Oh, no! I've become a "Frankenme" - aaaarrrggh!)
(Um... no offense Frank.)
;-)
00dozo: Dishwater? Hey my mom used to bathe me after she'd done the dishes. Didn't everybody do it like that? Splish, splash I was takin' a bath long about a Saturday night's alright for fighting.
Haha, clever! I had a teacher once who used to match up idioms. I'd repeat them, but as they were all in Norwegian it wouldn't make much sense...
Cruella: Hva skjer? (I have no idea how to pronounce that!) Yeah I once had a physics teacher who used to say things like "well, that's a horse of a different garage". I only took physics for a month before dropping it.
Noname, this is the most creative thing I have seen done with idioms yet. This is indeed a canary of a different color than the one in hand
you had in the coal mine before you let the horse out of the bush. Funny stuff, my friend.
Noname, this is the most creative thing I have seen done with idioms yet. This is indeed a canary of a different color than the one in hand
you had in the coal mine before you let the horse out of the bush. Funny stuff, my friend.
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