Phrases that hit the nail on the head

[Arlanymor]

Having looked at the thread about phrases/words/terms that people hate - what about the ones that just feel spot on?

I heard this earlier today in relation to the modern obsession with celebrities doing crazy things for clout to keep themselves 'relevant' and in the spotlight...

"The attention economy".

Yes! Spot on! Great term for those who monetise meaningless content for maximum exposure on social media - behaviour that pays dividends in the attention economy.

Build a bridge and get over it.
Were you born in a barn?
Do I look like a Minion?
He could talk a glass eye to sleep.
It's always darkest before dawn.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
If I had a £1 for everytime someone asked me that ...
You haven't got the common sense you were born with.
Is it your hill to die on ?

And buzzing around like a fart in a colander

You can’t heal in the same environment that got you sick

The longer you stay on the wrong train the more expensive it is to get home

The universe will never give you peace in something you were never meant to settle in

You can’t add days to your life but you can add life to your days

It only has to make sense to you

You still havnt met all the people who are going to love you

What’s yours will always find you

Let them

What your not changing your choosing

once is a mistake twice is a choice

About a lazy person:

"If there was work in the bed, he'd sleep on the floor"

One golden hour of life is worth an age without a name

Sorry if I'm repeating but creating a safe space for both wolves and sheep means after a while they'll just be wolves.

Along the same, very 21st-century lines: Purity Spiral and Oppression Olympics.

When 'purity spiral' first appeared, word was that it originated in a knitting forum that had torn itself apart over some moral question, with Professionally Offended knitters demanding humility from bewildered other knitters, only to be 'called out' themselves. A knitting forum! I can't quite imagine it, but hope it's true.

Some of them must've been Professional Victims, of whom one might say 'If they found a gold ring, they'd say it should have been a diamond ring'.

None so deaf as those that don't want to hear
Once burned, twice shy
Marry in haste, repent at leisure
Sir Stifford Craps (Sir Stafford Cripps was in charge of nutrition during WW2)

Putting bullets in guns for other people to shoot.

Isn't it 'main character energy'?

Ugh I hate this one

Which one? I think both are very wise. But then, nowt so queer as folk, & all the world is queer,and even thee is a little queer.

@CeliaCanth @locket2009 "They'd argue with a dead animal" .

Two economists, three opinions.

It is quite sweet, isn’t it?

I agree with pp’s about ‘being kind’. My ‘do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?’ was said to my XH by the counsellor during a couple’s therapy session. He was the sort of fella that would never listen to my anyone else’s point of view, and would endlessly argue the toss rather than compromise or let me have my way once in a while.

He was word-salading at length about something he felt righteous about, and she just interjected with, “Yes, but do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy?”.

It stopped him in his tracks. I mean, not for long, and I divorced him anyway, but for a moment realisation dawned, and I thought, “Wow. That hit the nail on the head.”

I mean, it really can be summed up with, “Let it go, ffs” 😀

I liked it when someone compared being challenged in the House of Commons by Geoffrey Howe to “being savaged by a dead sheep.”

I miss witty politicians.

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I think it’s both.

Yes I’ve not heard it before but it’s lovely! My ex-MIL says “there’s a Jack for every Jill” which I also love!

So many, there is a saying for everything in Ireland, sometimes I have to stop myself from spluttering a few clangers.

Verbal diarrhoea.

The shit just pours out of their mouths.

You're as much use as no use.
sound cutting in a Ne Scottish accent.
Yer as much ees as nae ees.

Eese.not ees

The lights are on but noone is home.

Don't cast pearls before swine
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

Yes but in a school?! Where children are learning - surely the goal is to generally get things right or whets the point?! Lying to people to “be kind” is not a particularly healthy thing to actively promote..

Dd had one of these “group hug touchy feely” type teachers in year 6. Was a relief to get to secondary.