Why do we say these things?

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11-03-2018, 05:40 AM

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"Are you busy?" You know you are being set up to do something.

11-03-2018, 05:42 AM

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bearisgray

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Originally Posted by sandy l

"A day late and a dollar short"
I never could figure out why my Dad always would say that when any of us kids messed up.

I don't know why your Dad said that when you kids messed up - but my DH and/or I will still say it when we missed an opportunity because we "came late to the party" or didn't have quite enough money for whatever.

11-03-2018, 06:07 AM

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"To make a long story short" … after already making it long. DH does that all the time!

11-04-2018, 06:02 AM

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"I'll be honest...."
Really? You weren't being honest before?

11-04-2018, 09:11 AM

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I'm still trying to figure out what "a friend in need is a friend indeed" means.

11-04-2018, 09:41 AM

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"I am just being honest." When you are just being hurtful and rude. The truth doesn't have to hurt.

11-04-2018, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by bearisgray

I found it in the last place I looked.
Why would we look some more after we found "it"?

You made your bed, now lie in it.
Why can't I get out of it, make it over, or go sleep somewhere else?

This hurts me than it hurts you.
Really?

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
In my experience, some words can hurt "forever".

Any others that come to mind?

You made your bed, now lie in it.

What my Mom meant by that saying is: If you picked a not so good spouse, just live with him/her. Of course now days divorce usually happens. Not so much in the 1920s.

11-04-2018, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by sandy l

"A day late and a dollar short"
I never could figure out why my Dad always would say that when any of us kids messed up.

I have always known a day late and a dollar short. Used if one missed a sale or good bargain by a day hence you were a day late and a dollar short.

11-04-2018, 07:26 PM

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Most of these sayings were made up many years ago. You are trying to make sense of them in this day and age.

Just like the saying " This is going to hurt me more than you." That was eons ago when parents spanked their kids for misbehaving.

11-04-2018, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Iceblossom

Any time someone adds "just kidding" they aren't...

yeah, had a therapist do that to me. He's not my therapist any more. He thought he could make
a joke, but not take one in return. Alrighty then, I'm gone like a freight train running. slam!