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Did you ever stumble across a saying/phrase with no sense? Care to share?

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The proof is in the pudding.



This phrase started out as The proof of the pudding is in the eating, which meant that you have to know what’s in the pudding by eating it. It has since been shortened to The proof is in the pudding. It implies that you should take the initiative to learn by examining the evidence that supports the claim yourself.

Posted - April 3, 2017
Tags : Silly Questions nonsense Sayings Phrases

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  • 6124
    I wonder where my Nana picked that up from.  No one in our family was in the Navy.  I think I may have to start look for an illegitimate child and grandchildren....wouldn't put it past her.
      April 4, 2017 5:51 AM MDT
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  • Also it's a long standing Army saying too.
      April 4, 2017 6:18 AM MDT
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  • 6124
    No family in the Army either.  But, my Dad was a Marine.  Maybe that's where she got it from.  I still like thinking I have an aunt or uncle out there along with cousins I didn't know about.  ;-)
      April 4, 2017 7:46 AM MDT
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  • It's like searching for a needle in a haystack.
    What idiot keeps their needles in a haystack? 
      April 3, 2017 6:14 PM MDT
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  • 17261
    I'm not even sure they placed it there, just to make us look like stupids searching for it?
      April 4, 2017 1:18 AM MDT
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  • It's like the straw the broke the camel's back. Who the heck counts the straws to see which one did the damage/ Poor old camel probably would stand still long enough for his back to break, anyway. :(
      April 4, 2017 3:17 AM MDT
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  • 17261
    Did not know that one. So many weird ones. Lol. Poor old camel. 
      April 4, 2017 3:18 AM MDT
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  • 44619
    Finding it is easy...walk barefoot through the haystack or get a large rare earth magnet.
      April 4, 2017 5:32 AM MDT
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  • I'm familiar with UBST (unintentional barefoot search techniques). Mrs Didge sews. She also drops needles on the carpet. :( 
      April 4, 2017 12:43 PM MDT
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  • 17261
    Never heard that one before, do you know the meaning of it? And hopefully a good dog, clean enough to enter the main room?
      April 4, 2017 1:19 AM MDT
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  • 53509

    "Lock and load"

    It's a backwards expression. The cycle of operations of a weapon requires loading of the round in the chamber and then locking the bolt home.


    ~
      April 3, 2017 9:11 PM MDT
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  • 17261
    Oh. That's a classic. Come to think about it, I might say a similar one, I'm off and on. How's that, approved or no good?
      April 4, 2017 1:20 AM MDT
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  • 6124
    Good one.  That's another one that doesn't make sense. :-)
      April 4, 2017 5:16 AM MDT
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  • 17261
    Gah. Means I make no sense. Oomph.
      April 4, 2017 5:33 AM MDT
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  • 44619
    I have often wondered about that.
      April 4, 2017 5:33 AM MDT
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