Today in english we was rading a book and there was the expression “he couldn’t say boo to a goose” and that was it I just cracked up. any one els got some funnyones.
EDIT:My teacher did a “random locker search” and mine was the one searched
Today in english we was rading a book and there was the expression “he couldn’t say boo to a goose” and that was it I just cracked up. any one els got some funnyones.
EDIT:My teacher did a “random locker search” and mine was the one searched
in french we say: “he is making the face of a cat sh***ing on embers”.
what does that mean?.
well just spot the face of president Bush at the moment he is going to start a speech (specially to announce the republicans loss in mid-term elections) and you will see that I mean.
(sorry for some members in this forum: my goal is not to make fun of president Bush but there was a picture of him on newspapers that so much fitted this description that the expression sprung to everybody’s mind… my apologies Mr President.)
I was in Tech studies at school, my teacher was showing the class how to use a cutting machine. He said “Watch out, this thing will cut your finger off like a milkshake!”. He has a lot of weird expressions.
yeah that was the weirdest thing ever.
we all just stood around like
My Dad has a good one.
Whenever I make a hash of doing something for him, he says to me, “Son, you’re as much good as a one-legged man in an arse kicking contest.”
My dad’s favorite: “You’re full of stewed prunes and billy goat eggs.”
I think it means that I was exagerating at the moment.
Here is a cool site for English expressions.
We’re not in the EU, you don’t have to apologize to the president…or king or queen or premier or prime minister. He has to take his hits with the rest of us.
sorry Harper: my english does not go that far … and I have problems with your understatements:p and humour what do you mean?
Harper, humor? I think I missed something here
If a frog had wings he wouldn’t bump his ass when he hops!
“you look like you could suck a golf ball through a garden hose” one of my friends always says that. I think its off a movie
One of my favourite literary figures, a comical sea captain called Para Handy, describes moments of extreme peril like this: “There was me, thinking every minute would be my next…”
Wouldn’t say boo to a goose is a fairly common expression over here. It describes timidity.
One of my favourites, from a bad western novel (there is no other kind, but they’re enjoyable): “More fun than a barrel of monkeys.”
Our english teacher says “i’ll cut off your head and spit down your neck” and my fourth grade teacher used to say “if my dog had thumbs he could do it”
my grandad used to say “do u think i’m daft as a brush? u think i sailed down the mersey in a biscuit tin?” (mersey river in liverpoool i think)
i never really understoof what he meant!
Could in be the Missouri River? The greatest tributary to the Mississippi in the US?
LOL seriously I’m laughing so freaking hard about this!. Anywys when my mom wants my dads opinion on an outfit he says"terrible you’ll stick out like a turd in a punchbowl" I once heard a comedian say “getting physical with a lady when your too drunk to be walking is real hard. It’s like playing pool with a rope, but it canbe done. Just slap the ball into the hole”
me at a corporate meeting last week: “Sorry : Joel wasn’t able to come … He had a menhir to deliver” …
other attendants were so baffled that they shouted “WHAT?” and I had to repeat it again with a less serious expression