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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 6/13/2009 10:58:36 PM
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pink..
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I know. I had to find it after I said that. It's in two places:
Duet. 32:10
10 In a desert land he found him,
in a barren and howling waste.
He shielded him and cared for him;
he guarded him as the apple of his eye,
and Zechariah 2:8
For this is what the LORD Almighty says: "After he has honored me and has sent me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye-
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 6/14/2009 3:51:40 PM
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Katie-Scarlet
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Oh for the love of Pete. For Pete sake.
Ok who is Pete and why are so many things being done in his name?
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 6/14/2009 9:27:32 PM
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I just remembered one phrase I don't get, it was said in Sunday school today.
"Nose out of joint"
Noses do not have joints...
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 6/15/2009 5:52:30 PM
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"Hot water heater"
If it's already hot, why do I need a heater for it?
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 6/17/2009 7:44:30 AM
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One phrase I heard in a hymn as a kid that made a different sense to me than what was intended STILL brings back that incorrect meaning everytime I hear it:
"Praise the Lamb for sinners slain..." Why praise him for killing off sinners?
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 6/17/2009 4:30:29 PM
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Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw, piled high, with no wood
underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the pet
dogs, cats and their small animals: mice, rats & bugs - lived in the roof.
When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and
fall off the roof, hence the saying, "It's raining cats and dogs."
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 6/17/2009 4:39:50 PM
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GroupW
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"Taking the bull by the horns." Supposedly it means to take control of something to help ensure a better outcome.
Now, if I've got a bull by the horns:
1) I don't think I'm in control.
2) I REALLY don't think I'm going to like the outcome.
Seems to be if you wanted to control a bull, you'd take hold of something else other than his horns.
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Phrases you just don't get - 6/18/2009 1:22:12 AM
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pink..
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quote:
ORIGINAL: allisonbrett
Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw, piled high, with no wood
underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the pet
dogs, cats and their small animals: mice, rats & bugs - lived in the roof.
When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and
fall off the roof, hence the saying, "It's raining cats and dogs."
Thank you! I've always wondered about that.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 6/19/2009 2:01:40 AM
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Here are a few more.
Get to the nitty gritty
Cut to the chase
Do I look like I just fell off a turnip truck
Yeah thats the ticket
Cut that out (if taken literally it could hurt)
Give em the cold shoulder
Beating around the bush
Mind your P's and Q's
Tie the knot (this probably has some cultural ceremonial signifigance)
Mind your own beeswax
Stick out like a sore thumb
Having a green thumb
Do I look like Willie sponge head
Dumb as a box of rocks
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 6/19/2009 2:38:17 AM
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Those are good Katie - I don't know where any of them came from.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 6/19/2009 4:53:40 PM
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Katie-Scarlet
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Niether do I, someone somewhere is making up sayings and somehow getting thousands of us to repeat it. LOL
How about
hob knob
Know which side your bread is buttered or bring home the bread and butter
cat got your tongue
cars being lemons
its curtains for you
< Message edited by Katie-Scarlet -- 6/19/2009 5:09:26 PM >
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 6/19/2009 5:51:41 PM
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ORIGINAL: letusreason
"Penny for your thoughts" like who deteremined the monetary value of thoughts and why hasn't it kept pace with inflation?
Who says it hasn't. I know a few people I would be expecting change back from.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 6/20/2009 11:53:03 AM
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Katie-Scarlet
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quote:
ORIGINAL: SavedByGraceMD
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ORIGINAL: letusreason
"Penny for your thoughts" like who deteremined the monetary value of thoughts and why hasn't it kept pace with inflation?
Who says it hasn't. I know a few people I would be expecting change back from.
LOL never a truer word has been said!
How about
You can't beat that with a stick! (I just said this one in regards to a bargain I just got lol)
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 6/22/2009 4:27:38 AM
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Katie-Scarlet
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put yourself on the line
weasel out
in like flynn
lazy lima bean
kick the bucket (what does a bucket have to do with death)
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 6/22/2009 5:04:45 AM
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These were all good ones, katie. But, sorry, dont know the meaning or origination behind most of them so I cant help. However, I have never heard lazy lima bean. Can you use it in a sentence, please. thanks
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 6/22/2009 2:58:16 PM
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Katie-Scarlet
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quote:
ORIGINAL: IwillseekHim
These were all good ones, katie. But, sorry, dont know the meaning or origination behind most of them so I cant help. However, I have never heard lazy lima bean. Can you use it in a sentence, please. thanks
Thanks and thats ok.
You need to get a job you lazy lima bean! LOL
Copy cat
That's the way the ball bounces
Sock it to me.
You gotta roll with the punches
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 6/22/2009 4:14:38 PM
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Cat's pajamas - my cats sleep in the nude - they have never worn pajamas
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 6/24/2009 12:28:34 PM
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Katie-Scarlet
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Keep it under wraps
Doesn't make a lick of sense
Puttng my foot down
Whats the big wohoopie D doo
Whats all the broo ha ha
x,y,z
Yada yada yada
Hit the bricks
Feet make tracks
Hold your horses
I say way too many of these.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 6/26/2009 5:49:52 PM
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Katie-Scarlet
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Cute as a button
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 6/26/2009 6:03:27 PM
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kick the bucket (what does a bucket have to do with death) It's been said that when people hung themselves, they would stand on a bucket and then kick it away.
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Copy cat You've never seen a cat copy you or someone or another cat?
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 6/29/2009 2:18:48 AM
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Katie-Scarlet
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I've had cats before and I can't say that I have, but the bucket thing is interesting. Not sure how much height you would get from standing on a bucket though. I've got long legs so I would be pretty much just jumping off and hitting the ground.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 6/30/2009 1:03:45 PM
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Katie-Scarlet
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In a pigs eye
Stew in your own juices (that's just nasty)
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 6/30/2009 1:11:24 PM
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I've got long legs so I would be pretty much just jumping off and hitting the ground. It doesn't matter how long your legs are. It matters how long the rope is that you'd be putting round your neck.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 6/30/2009 10:01:18 PM
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ORIGINAL: Katie-Scarlet
Pot calling the kettle black
This comes from when cooking was done over an open fire, and crockery would get blackened by soot. Since both pots and kettles are used to heat things up, they would both get black. Hence the irony of a pot covered with soot telling a kettle that it (the kettle) is black.
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The apple of your eye
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I still just don't get it. Apples... eyes?
The apple of your eye is your pupil -- the hole in the middle that lets light in. We always instinctively protect our eyes, shielding them from harm because they are vulnerable and very important to us. So when God calls His people the apple of His eye, it's expressing how much He cares for us and wants to protect us.
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