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Your Favourite Idiom, Phrase or Expression

Started by mongers, December 01, 2014, 08:11:16 AM

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The Brain

I don't know about favorite, but katmai is a pretty good example.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Duque de Bragança

Quote from: CountDeMoney on December 01, 2014, 09:12:23 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on December 01, 2014, 09:08:59 AM
I learned today that the French version of 'other fish to fry' is 'other cats to whip', which I found a little alarming.

That certainly is alarming.

C'est du menu fretin, j'ai d'autres chats à fouetter.   ;)

Originally, "Menu fretin" is small fish deemed unworthy of fishing, sent back to the sea, it's used nowadays in the meaning of small fry, if you want to stick to fish.

Savonarola

I came across one I liked in the Second Book of Maccabees today.  Jason, the former high priest, is described as:  "An apostate from the laws".
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Monoriu

All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. 

Martinus

Quote from: The Brain on December 01, 2014, 03:20:31 PM
I don't know about favorite, but katmai is a pretty good example.

He said "idioMs".

Eddie Teach

Mi idioma favorita es... ingles. Naturalamente. No se algunas otras.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

lustindarkness

"Just another beautiful day in paradise". Which I started to say when I was in Kuwait :lol:.
Grand Duke of Lurkdom

DontSayBanana

"Whatever floats your goat."

Which I used long before Kain pulled the SG name from an Internet metal name generator, BTW. :contract:
Experience bij!