Use your Words
From Sigmon
- Boondoggle,term for a scheme that wastes time and money, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boondoggle
- carrot-and-stick
adj.
Combining a promised reward with a threatened penalty: took a carrot-and-stick approach to the rehabilitation of juvenile offenders.
- the world is your oyster
"All the pleasures and opportunities of life are open to someone because he is young, rich, handsome, successful, etc. Shakespeare invented or popularized this expression." From "Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins" by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997).
- when in rome
do what the locals do
- I have to go see a man about a horse
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other sayings I find entertaining/advice
- never tell a cute girl she is too *anything*
- never call a girl crazy
- Never tell a girl you like her until you've stuck your hand down her pants
- never cry like a little girl
- never tell a girl she "looks fat" in this
- chasing wind mills
buddies
I'm not your friend, buddy I'm not your buddy, pal I'm not your pal, guy I'm not your guy, friend I'm not your friend, pal I'm not your pal, buddy I'm not your buddy, friend
wisdom
- expect the unexpected
“Fall seven times; stand up eight.” – Japanese proverb
engrish
And you wonder why foreigners have trouble with the English language. (From Pat Brentani of the Boston BBS.)
- The bandage was wound around the wound.
- The farm was used to produce produce.
- The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
- He could lead if he would get the lead out.
- The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
- Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
- A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
- When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
- A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
- The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
- There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
- They were too close to the door to close it.
- The buck does funny things when the does are present.
- To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
- The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
- After a number of injections my jaw got number.
- Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
- I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
- How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Links to Idiom Sites
- Idiom Definitions for 'Wag the dog'
To 'wag the dog' means to purposely divert attention from what would otherwise be of greater importance, to something else of lesser significance. By doing so, the lesser-significant event is catapulted into the limelight, drowning proper attention to what was originally the more important issue. becaus of custom essays the expression comes from the saying that 'a dog is smarter than its tail', but if the tail were smarter, then the tail would 'wag the dog'. The expression 'wag the dog' was elaborately used as theme of the movie. 'Wag the Dog', a 1997 film starring Robert de Niro and Dustin Hoffman, produced and directed by Barry Levinson.
- Crossed the rubicon
