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To ask for your favourite sayings/phrases?

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SailAwaySandra · 27/08/2024 20:19

Mine are

I’d rather be late in this life than early in the next

And

If you want something done properly, do it yourself (bloody annoying but always true)

OP posts:
Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 27/08/2024 22:02

My 2 favourites

No one is promised tomorrow

See the happy moron
He doesn't give a damn
I wish I was a moron
My God! Perhaps I am🙃

scoped · 27/08/2024 22:01

'I'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking' (i.e. not daft 😆)

TheHangingGardensOfBasildon · 27/08/2024 22:01

Especially useful for the arrogant people who use 'urgent' for every single email that they send:

"If everything is top priority, then nothing is".

Also applicable when airlines gleefully take an extra fee for 'priority boarding' from every single passenger.

ThePrologue · 27/08/2024 21:58

Better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and prove them correct
( I have not always adhered to this!)

Get ye tae fuck. But only if spoken by a Scottish person. It can be both an endearmentcandca threat - brilliant

TheHangingGardensOfBasildon · 27/08/2024 21:58

Tricho · 27/08/2024 21:48

"Does anyone have a car seat I can borrow urgently because apparently I was born yesterday"

I like the sort of variation on that:

"I may have been born at night, but it wasn't last night!"

MotherofPearl · 27/08/2024 21:58

Daft as a brush.

Went down like a cup of cold sick.

Also euphemisms for death such as:

Joined the choir invisible.
Pushing up daisies.

cardibach · 27/08/2024 21:54

‘Up and down like a bride’s nightie’ is very descriptive for times when you just can’t get 5 mins to sit down.
My granny also used ‘I felt like a whore at a funeral’ to describe feeling out of place.

IWanderedLonely · 27/08/2024 21:51

Here it is

To ask for your favourite sayings/phrases?
Pixiedust49 · 27/08/2024 21:50

Less is more..

Fake it to make it..

My two favourites

Tricho · 27/08/2024 21:48

"Does anyone have a car seat I can borrow urgently because apparently I was born yesterday"

stayathomer · 27/08/2024 21:47

She didn’t lick that from a stone (meaning: so someone found something out somehow!)

IWanderedLonely · 27/08/2024 21:47

Good manners cost nothing.

Behold the field in which I grow my fucks; cast thine eyes upon it and thou shalt see that it is barren (AKA I don't give a fuck) there's a brilliant Baueaux tapestry type meme for this which I keep promising myself that I'll print for my desk at work.

Defiantlynot41 · 27/08/2024 21:45

Every choice involves loss - very guilty of over using this but SO true

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 27/08/2024 21:44

HollyCanDoAnything · 27/08/2024 20:33

If in doubt, mumble.

I do this 😃😂

Snugglemonkey · 27/08/2024 21:44

ithinkilikethislittlelife · 27/08/2024 20:40

We don't hold grudges in this house. Said to the children when they are arguing about something one of them did days ago. Said regularly.

We say this,but I am all to aware that we are lying. I wish we can get to this.

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 27/08/2024 21:43

Aquamarine1029 · 27/08/2024 20:28

Fuck this.
Fuck that.
Fuck off.

Almost always said inside my head when dealing with nonsense at work.

😂

Aquamarine1029 · 27/08/2024 21:41

Fuck you for thinking that.

TiredTeaBag · 27/08/2024 21:41

Fuck you very much!

An insult that is often missed if you say it quick enough. 😁

Aquamarine1029 · 27/08/2024 21:36

justusandthecat · 27/08/2024 21:07

I'd rather shit in my hands and clap.

Love this.

Also love "I'd rather slam my left tit in the car door." I laughed for ages when I heard that.

Joolsin · 27/08/2024 21:36

S/he's as mad as a box of frogs.

Not my circus, not my monkeys.

Meh!

Don't make me lose my bananas (this is a carry-over from when my children were little, when I substituted it for "lose my shit")!!

ToriMJ · 27/08/2024 21:35

It's blowing a hoolie

justusandthecat · 27/08/2024 21:07

I'd rather shit in my hands and clap.

OverShrinkerThinker · 27/08/2024 21:05

There's two sides to every story - and you're a cunt in both of them

Lolatusernamesuggestions · 27/08/2024 21:01

Smells like something crawled up there and died. A nod to farts, the really bad ones.

Snorted a bit laughing at the gnat's arse comment.

LadyGrillingSole · 27/08/2024 20:57

My stomach thinks my throats been cut ( I'm hungry )

Like shit off a shovel ( moved fast )

My two favourites!

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