Debra Mc

Here's one. "If you had a brain, you would take it out & play with it."

bearisgray

This one infuriated me when said to me by a man
"Don't you worry your pretty little head about it"

bearisgray

"dibble dabble play in the gravel"

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bearisgray

when people confuse "accept" and "except"

Debra Mc

My Dh says I confuse pacific & specific. That man telling you not to worry your pretty little head is a chauvinistic pig. He doesn't know today's woman very well. I can do just about anything my boys can do except pee standing up. My daddy rasied a TOMBOY. I was right behind him every step. I even know how to put brake shoes on a car. I hunted & fished bass tournaments with him & can use any power tool know to man or woman. In fact I have my own tool box. But I still like to sew & cook. We are rennanisance women, watch us roar. Now I will get off my woman's lib soap box.

burnsk

Two more of my favorites: "going around the block to get next door" and, "cut to the chase". I don't know where they came from but I use them a lot when I ask my hubby to explain something. He's always using 50 words when 5 would have done it.

bearisgray

have no idea where "cut to the chase" originiated -

the way we use it is "eliminate all the unnecessary details - let's get going"

bearisgray

I wonder if it might have had something to do with fox-hunting?

Rhonda

Is worsch the german word for wash? I never knew that. I always wondered where that got started.

MadQuilter

I thought the German R sounds more like someone's coughing up a fur ball.

Cut to the chase goes back to the old movies that always had a great chase scene in them. So "cut to the chase" means to bypass all the unnecessary crap and get to the good parts (or what matters).