Funny English phrases

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hornetguy

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what about "knee high to a grasshopper" ?
"cuter than a bug's ear"
"a tough row to hoe"
"sharp as a tack"
"this ain't my first rodeo"
"all hat, and no cattle"
"rode hard and put up wet"
 
Zandar

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In the south we are fixin' to do stuff. I'm fixin' to get out of here.
 
Magenta

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Lynx said:
Jiffy is not cornbread. It only tries to pretend it is cornbread.

Come down to the South and I'll make you a pan of real cornbread.
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A corn bread thing-a-ma-jig (in a box) posing as corn bread LOL
 
Subhumanoidal

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Where I'm from there's two types of folks, those who ain't and those who are knee high on a grasshopper. Which type ain't you ain't? Ya'll come back now.
 
Godsgirl1983

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Today my daughter and I talked about more idiots idioms:

* Money to burn
* time to kill
 
Lynx

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hornetguy said:
Remember.... the eagle flies on Friday..... (payday)
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But my payday is Monday...

Not even kidding. We get paid on Monday. Nobody knows why. Even the main manager doesn't know why.
 
hornetguy

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I've heard of companies doing that, so the employees won't take their paycheck and go on a bender over the weekend, and not show up to work on Monday...
That's probably not true for your company, though.... :rolleyes::ROFL:
 
Lynx

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hornetguy said:
I've heard of companies doing that, so the employees won't take their paycheck and go on a bender over the weekend, and not show up to work on Monday...
That's probably not true for your company, though.... :rolleyes::ROFL:
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It's a mcdonald's, so that might very well be exactly the reason. Lots of teenagers.
 
Eli1

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Gaslighting.
I see this a lot now in real life too, due to people's intense Internet usage and i can't help but wonder what it means.
Does it mean this?

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Eli1 said:
Gaslighting.
I see this a lot now in real life too, due to people's intense Internet usage and i can't help but wonder what it means.
Does it mean this?

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a basic definition is telling something that is very obviously false, and insisting it is true, sometimes to the point of belittling folks who do not agree with the false thing being said.

example- here in the u.s., the media will sometimes do stories about how great the economy is, how prices are coming down, inflation is getting better.

but, in reality, prices are going up, and inflation is not coming down....
 
Lynx

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Eli1 said:
Gaslighting.
I see this a lot now in real life too, due to people's intense Internet usage and i can't help but wonder what it means.
Does it mean this?

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Gaslighting ain't what it used to be...

Right now gaslighting means "I'm losing this argument so i'm going to throw a random accusation at you and hope that will get you off my butt."

What gaslighting USED to mean is:
Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation that hinges on creating self-doubt. “I think of gaslighting as trying to associate someone with the label ‘crazy,’” says Paige Sweet, Ph.D., an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Michigan who studies gaslighting in relationships and in the workplace. “It’s making someone seem or feel unstable, irrational and not credible, making them feel like what they’re seeing or experiencing isn’t real, that they’re making it up, that no one else will believe them.”

Gaslighting involves an imbalance of power between the abuser and the person they’re gaslighting. Abusers often exploit stereotypes or vulnerabilities related to gender, sexuality, race, nationality and/or class.

“The most distinctive feature of gaslighting is that it’s not enough for the gaslighter simply to control his victim or have things go his way: It’s essential to him that the victim herself actually come to agree with him,” writes Andrew D. Spear, an associate professor of philosophy at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, in a 2019 paper on gaslighting in Inquiry.
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Quote taken from:
https://www.forbes.com/health/mind/what-is-gaslighting/

So ironically if someone throws a gaslighting accusation at you, that person may unknowingly be trying to gaslight you. :LOL:
 
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