Words or phrases you love (quote)

[RocketDawg]

Originally Posted by steiconi

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer. In fact, more like the wooden spoon that keeps getting stuck in the garbage disposal.

--Stephen Colbert (I think), about Dubya

A couple of years ago I was on a tour bus in Charleston, SC. The tour guide on the bus said Colbert grew up in Charleston, and that the name was pronounced like it looks to most Americans ... Col-bert ... and only when he got into entertainment did the pronunciation develop a French flair ... Col-bere. I'm guessing the tour guide wasn't really fond of old Steve.

[silibran]

Originally Posted by steiconi

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer. In fact, more like the wooden spoon that keeps getting stuck in the garbage disposal.

--Stephen Colbert (I think), about Dubya

DH uses: one brick short of a full load.

There is also: dim bulb

[CarolinaMoon1]

You, y'all, all y'all

[RocketDawg]

Originally Posted by CarolinaMoon1

You, y'all, all y'all

Maybe I'm just not listening, but I never hear "all y'all". "Y'all" is already plural. Could be it's specific to subregions of the South.

[silibran]

Originally Posted by RocketDawg

Maybe I'm just not listening, but I never hear "all y'all". "Y'all" is already plural. Could be it's specific to subregions of the South.

I’ve definitely heard all y’all. No one said it was logical or makes sense.

[Tantalust]

Originally Posted by silibran

From pillar to post.

A great old fashioned phrase indicating fruitless movement between destinations, or a haphazard stop and go journey

I think I saw a home inspection company by that name.

[silibran]

Idiomatic ways of indicating an entire thing:

the whole ball of wax
the whole nine yards
the whole enchilada
everything but the kitchen sink
the whole shooting match
the whole shebang

Can you think of any more?

[Tantalust]

"O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!" - William Shakespeare

[LilyMae521]

Originally Posted by silibran

Idiomatic ways of indicating an entire thing:

the whole ball of wax
the whole nine yards
the whole enchilada
everything but the kitchen sink
the whole shooting match
the whole shebang

Can you think of any more?

"The whole kit and caboodle"


Different, but along the same lines.. "From now until the cows come home" - to me this means forever.

[Nonchalance]

Originally Posted by silibran

nonchalance

i like that word.

Whyyy....thanks.

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