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"Make yourself scarce" meaning "get out of here".
"Raining cats and dogs" meaning "raining very hard".
"Three sheets to the wind" meaning "intoxicated".
"what is meant to be will always find a way"
what goes around comes around. I have never seen any evidence to back that one up.
'the mosquitos are big enough to stand flat footed and rape a turkey' ~my dad~ i don't think i need to explain the meaning of that one
'birds of a feather flock together' ~dunno~ you are who you hang with
'man who sit high on pot smell good' ~not sure either... i think you get the point on that one too
"somewhere over the rainbow" well, how can there be a somewhere over the rainbow if u cant get to a rainbow?
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Better not to get in a situation to begin with, than have to worry about how to get out of it.
hmm my family says about dreams "ripped out tooth in the dark" means someone in the family dead ...weird i kno but it happens
"All energy flows to the whims of a great Magnet"
Ka Sir Raw Sir Raw what ever will be will be
Yeis me Speakin Inglish bery Goood
Me eat tacos
"It's like a cat in a bag... you just never know."- this German guy Maurice that I used to work with. I looked at him funny and asked about it and he said it meant the unpredictability of a situation, like not knowing what's going to happen when you've got a cat in a bag. (Something tells me I've got a pretty good idea of what would happen with a cat in a bag, though...)
If you lay down with the dogs you will get up with fleas.
Be careful who you pick for friends.
You can flog (whip) a dead horse but he ain't gonna get up and win the race. My daddy's favorite saying. - Know when to give up. Kinda like "know when to hold em and know when to fold em."
"working the graveyard shift " comes from around 14th century in England People were dropping dead by the hundreds because of Plague. Dead body's were collected and buried daily to try and control the spread of the disease (and I'm sure , the smell) The pewter and tin that was used to make every day eating and drinking utensils combined with too much alcohol caused a type of metal poisoning that could cause a person to slip into a kind of coma. Not knowing this caused about 3 out of 4 people to be buried alive. (how we know this is a whole other story) To try and correct this problem they would tie a string on the "dead" persons wrist. This string was the pulled through a small hole in the coffin then up through the earth and tied to a bell on a stick. Someone was assigned to sit next to that bell and listen for it to ring. If it did then they knew the person was alive and would dig them back up.. That's working the grave yard shift . Gross but true........ raining cats and dogs comes from the days when people had thatched roofs. The cats and dogs would get up on the roof at night so they could sleep in relative safety...unfortunately if rained really hard, the thatch on the roof would become weak and fall into the house and if that' where pussins and fido were sleeping guess where they are now? right lying on the floor of the house because it's raining so hard the roof fell in and caused it to "rain cats and dogs"
"If you are in a hurry go slow" (Mexican proverb) It means the faster you go the most likely you are to make mistakes, and the slower you go and concentrate on what you are doing the less likely you are to make errors.
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