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Wallah! It's the first time I've seen voilà written this way. But when I think about it, it seems like a really obvious thing to do so I wonder how common it is.
Is it a "thing" that I've just missed before now?

I don't understand the dead as a dormouse one, can someone please explain?

@JudgeJ yes she meant what she said but the saying is ‘ As dead as door nails.’ Why would a dormouse be dead?

@bloodybridget

I don't know if it's a Portuguese word or not, just that I drank a lot of expresso when I was in Portugal.

@roobicoobi

Youse/yous/ you's completely rips my knitting too!

Don't forget 'use' - I mean WTF 😬

I hate yous with a passion - all versions

Yes! I hate all of them.

@Benjispruce3

MIL is a top offender with ‘definately’ so we now believe she is ‘H’ from Line of Duty.

[quote VeniVidiWeeWee]@bloodybridget

I don't know if it's a Portuguese word or not, just that I drank a lot of expresso when I was in Portugal.[/quote]
I don't speak portuguese , but a quick google indicates they were just spelling espresso incorrectly. Expresso in portuguese is the past participle of expressa, meaning "to express". Nothing to do with coffee.

@VeniVidiWeeWee and I bet it was delicious!

Pan o chocolate was on FB the other day.

@Benjispruce3

A colleague used to say ‘As dead as a dormouse.’

My parents have always used the expression "dead as a door knocker" to refer to places that are a bit too quiet.

I have to chuckle. Not in a nasty way, just in a: "That's my mum!" sort of way.

*exprimir (not expressa). Sorry. Brain fail between Collins dictionary and mumsnet

Puffet was a new one on me this week :)

It’s when it makes sense that it gets confusing. Dormice hibernate so I guess you could describe them as dead to the world but I believe that the expression is ‘dead as a door nail.’
Damp squid makes sense as squids tend to be damp but the meaning isn’t correct.

[quote Benjispruce3]@JudgeJ yes she meant what she said but the saying is ‘ As dead as door nails.’ Why would a dormouse be dead?[/quote]
Oh I've never heard the door nails one but I've heard the dormouse one a lot.

I recently saw 'the hill I walked up was so steep, I almost had a Connery'

I imagined it said in a James Bond accent 😁

I saw someone writing about "permission cheese" once.

@4amWitchingHour

As I said above, it's a variant. The below is from the website Laboratorio Dell'Espresso.

How to order a coffee in Portugal?
Once you cross the threshold of one of the many Portuguese Cafés, it’s time to order. The variety of options on the menu may be dazzling and, in some cases, even disorienting, but let’s start with the basics: um Expresso or, in Lisbon, um Bica is, as you may have guessed, the classic espresso. For those who prefer a shorter more concentrated coffee you can always order an Italiana. Whereas the difference between a Cheio and a Duplo is that in the former, we are talking about a longer coffee in an espresso cup, while in the latter we are talking about a double espresso.

During LD, when you couldn't buy anything in supermarkets, there were an awful lot of people getting aeriated (!) Over the islands....

Couldn't buy a kettle on the kettle isle
I wanted a duvet from the duvet isle
The toy isle had hazard tape all over it

Honestly it grinds my gears to see people typing "how can I reorganise my draw" what the ACTUAL fuck? What school did these people stay away from?!?
I'm in a fb group, DIY on a budget, have had great tips on there but for fucks sake, the amount of people that write draw instead of drawer kills me!! It's only the English people and I think it's because of the accent, it sounds like draw when they say it but fucking Jesus Mary and the wee donkey, crack a fucking book! Preferably a dictionary!

*QuestionableMouse

@geezahoose it should be "the pot calling the kettle black."

I've never heard that saying so maybe that's why I couldn't get it*
Apparently this was one of my great-grandma's sayings, but she adapted it to "the pot calling the kettle sooty bum"

[quote Benjispruce3]@JudgeJ yes she meant what she said but the saying is ‘ As dead as door nails.’ Why would a dormouse be dead?[/quote]

It's definitely a saying. She wasn't wrong.

Looool

@bloodybridget

It was indeed!

I think it must’ve developed from door nails as language does.

What is permission cheese?

Anyone else know people who say chimley instead of chimney?