Idioms

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Language is a wonderful thing. Big fan of idioms, those strange phrases we all come to know but often don't automatically know the origin of.

What are your favourite idioms?

Pissed as a fart. Always makes me chuckle.

 

[Nymzee]

@Theoneandonly

 

[nsno-chris]

Disappointed, thought the title said “Idiots”

Had loads of names

 

[Nymzee]

Oh, wait, read the thread title wrong.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

I knew this would take a wrong turn. Folk getting their wires crossed!

 

[Runub]

Everton are…….

On the ball

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

@Theoneandonly

Sandwich short of a picnic

 

[JammyP]

Dumb as [Poor language removed]

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Disappointed, thought the title said “Idiots”

Had loads of names

Not the sharpest tools in the box? Name and shame!

 

[Gwladysover]

“Fart in a colander” and “Couldn’t knock the skin off a rice pudding”

 

[tommye]

Thick as pigshit

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Nipples like coat-hangers.....

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Dumb as [Poor language removed]

Harsh. But probably fair.

 

[Nymzee]

Talk a glass eye to sleep.

 

[tommye]

Pissed as a newt