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Clean as a whistle, dry as a bone, that's the way the cookie crumbles.

Do you have any other phrases or sayings that make no sense but people still use them?

Posted - October 22, 2020

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  • 10449
    Wrong side of the bed

    Raining cats and dogs  (my weather station actually says this when it's raining hard out)
      October 22, 2020 12:50 PM MDT
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  • 10029
    I don't know why everything is "as f^ck" (AF) now. 

    Cold AF
    Hot AF
    Bored AF
    Tired AF
    Hungry AF
    Thirsty AF
    Horny AF ........wait, that one might make sense. 
      October 22, 2020 7:04 PM MDT
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  • 52903

     

     1. This is neither here nor there.

     2. There’s no rhyme or reason to it.

     3. It is what it is.

     4.  . . . between you, me, and the bedpost . . .

      5. Catch as catch can.

    ~

      October 22, 2020 8:16 PM MDT
    3

  • 52903

     

      Bob’s your uncle. (Thanks, Australia.)

    ~

      October 22, 2020 10:13 PM MDT
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  • 7280
    When I was a young child, my mother's favorite saying was "You can't have your cake and eat it too"---which she enunciated as if it had been communicated to her directly by the Oracle at Delphi.

    Now children of that age are not known for their facility for understanding abstract concepts, so it was not until I was older that I finally realized that it meant that some outcomes are mutually exclusive.

    As a child, I simply thought that I could have a piece of cake on my plate, but that I would not be allowed to actually eat it---guess how exciting I thought that was.. This post was edited by tom jackson at October 23, 2020 4:43 PM MDT
      October 22, 2020 8:25 PM MDT
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  • 52903

     

      Lol!
    ~

      October 22, 2020 8:29 PM MDT
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  • 7280
    Definitely amusing in retrospect.
      October 22, 2020 8:33 PM MDT
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  • 44173
    I've been wrong all this time. I had a piece of cake sit on the table for six days, thinking I could not eat it. By the way, Chuck Norris can have his cake and eat it, too.
      October 23, 2020 10:44 AM MDT
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  • 32527
    I had my cake Monday.  I ate it. 
      October 23, 2020 12:18 PM MDT
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  • 7280
    Or anything else he may want....
      October 23, 2020 2:16 PM MDT
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  • 17364
    Dead as a door knob.

    Dumb as a door nail.

    Hungry as a bear.

    I could eat a horse.

    Mad as an old wet hen.

    So funny it makes you want to slap your granny.

      October 22, 2020 9:03 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Soft as silk

    Wetter than a dog's nose

    Simple as ABC

    Dumb as a rock

    Neat as a pin

    Sweeter than wine
      October 22, 2020 9:39 PM MDT
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  • 2706
    Whatever floats your stick, a brick shy of a load, a sandwich shy of a picnic, cool beans, if that doesn't take the rag off the bush, dumber than a box of rocks, run like a scalded dog.
      October 23, 2020 11:24 PM MDT
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  • 16197
    Ugly as a robber's dog.

    Off like a bucket of prawns in the sun.

    Flash in the pan.
      October 24, 2020 5:06 AM MDT
    1

  • 182
    If you're in tears over what happened to your village, don't ask Attila for the loan of a clean hanky.
    (Doesn't make sense because it is well know Attila had no truck with clean hankies). 
      October 28, 2020 8:12 AM MDT
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