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Here's one. "If you had a brain, you would take it out & play with it."
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This one infuriated me when said to me by a man
"Don't you worry your pretty little head about it" |
"dibble dabble play in the gravel"
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when people confuse "accept" and "except"
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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.
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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.
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have no idea where "cut to the chase" originiated -
the way we use it is "eliminate all the unnecessary details - let's get going" |
I wonder if it might have had something to do with fox-hunting?
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Originally Posted by Loretta
That German strong "R" is common in Midwest. Did you Worsch your hands?
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Originally Posted by Loretta
That German strong "R" is common in Midwest. Did you Worsch your hands?
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). |
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