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I guess you must not be very old yet. Life seems very long and drawn out when you are little. It takes so long to grow up. But once you reach age 30 the years start to pass by much more quickly. Before long you are 50 and you wonder how the time passed by so quickly. You think back to when you were 20 when you remember finding it difficult to imagine what being 40 would be like. That is when you start to understand the meaning of "Life is short". It is just an expression. It isn't meant literally.
I'm past fifty, and I don't get that "didn't it all just pass by quickly?" mentality. Same with my kid. She is 18 and people ask me if it didn't just fly by. No, I remember all the different phases of her childhood, and I remember how very different life/I was ten, fifteen, twenty, thirty years ago. It's not as if we just wake up one day and find ourselves 51 years old and have been living the same thing over and over for all those years...at least I hope not!
Life is short because it is quite literally very short compared to the planet, history, and the universe.
I AM from New Jersey, and there should be a special punishment for anyone who says, "Joisey?" when I say where I am from. I have yet to meet a single person actually from New Jersey who pronounces the name of the state that way.
I think that comes from old black-and-white movies where people from Brooklyn mention New Jersey.
The word "must" is way over used where I work. Every memo and communication passed down to us from corporate headquarters tells us we "must" do this and we "must" do that. It doesn't matter that they are not providing the resources, people, hours or help to accomplish all of these tasks and directives we are being given, we just "must" do it - as if saying we "MUST" is going to magically make things happen.
"Dollars to doughnuts" means 'most certain' or 'most assuredly'. It comes from the idea of betting. Betting a dollar to a half-dollar, for instance, means that you're giving 2 to 1 odds--you're willing to risk a dollar to win only a half-dollar. Being willing to bet dollars against doughnuts (viewed as worthless) means that you're totally confident that you're right, so confident that you'll bet money against nothing.
How about "there were more of them than you could shake a stick at."
At what count can you no longer shake a stick at items? And why would you be shaking a stick in the first place?
How 'bout "can't swing a dead cat without hitting [one]"? WTH? What do foreigners make of a phrase like this, or is it a global experience, swinging dead cats around?
Also, this may not be relevant to the thread, but the term "suicide doors" on old cars just gives me a tingle up my spine. Or even just noticing those doors, knowing what they're called.
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