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A WATCHED POT NEVER COMES TO THOSE WHO WAIT (MIXED IDIOMS)
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CloseSo on our daily huddle board at work there is a spot for "Quote du jour". On Friday, which was a really quiet day, I wrote
"A watched pot never comes to those who wait"
We just had our daily Monday morning huddle. My quote confused the hell out of people not of North American descent in our group (naturally) including our director (who is from Nigeria). A lot of people got a good laugh.
Yes, I am a bit of a shitdisturber at work, just like I am here at RMN.
Anywho, I want more mixed idioms a.k.a. malaphors (malapropism + metaphor)
Birds of a feather keep the doctor away.
An apple a day killed the cat.
Don't cut off your nose to cry over spilt milk.
If at first you don't succeed, carry a big stick.
Don't count your chickens before they fall far from the tree.
Don't bite the hand to spite your face.
Experience makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise, but you can't make him drink.
A fool and his money makes him healthy, wealthy and wise.
Stop beating around a dead horse
We'll burn that bridge when we come to it.
A watched pot never comes to those who wait.
Killing two birds with one handbasket.
loose lips shouldn't throw stones
A bird in the hand gathers no moss.
The early bird catches two in the bush.
He who laughs last never boils.
People in glass houses keep the doctor away
Let's get back on tangent
That's right up my sleeve
Green behind the ears
It's not rocket surgery
Jumping over backwards, and bending hoops
Like trying to find a mountain in a mole hill
The sky's your oyster
Rome wasn't built with glass houses!
Bite the bullet while it's hot
a catch 24/7
You can't always want what you get.
closing the barn door after the cat is out of the bag
The early bird has the last laugh
The enemy of my enemy is worth two in the bush
You've buttered your bread, now sleep in it.
Barking up the wrong alley
Don't cry over water under the bridge
Don't burn water under the bridge
"A watched pot never comes to those who wait"
We just had our daily Monday morning huddle. My quote confused the hell out of people not of North American descent in our group (naturally) including our director (who is from Nigeria). A lot of people got a good laugh.
Yes, I am a bit of a shitdisturber at work, just like I am here at RMN.
Anywho, I want more mixed idioms a.k.a. malaphors (malapropism + metaphor)
Birds of a feather keep the doctor away.
An apple a day killed the cat.
Don't cut off your nose to cry over spilt milk.
If at first you don't succeed, carry a big stick.
Don't count your chickens before they fall far from the tree.
Don't bite the hand to spite your face.
Experience makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise, but you can't make him drink.
A fool and his money makes him healthy, wealthy and wise.
Stop beating around a dead horse
We'll burn that bridge when we come to it.
A watched pot never comes to those who wait.
Killing two birds with one handbasket.
loose lips shouldn't throw stones
A bird in the hand gathers no moss.
The early bird catches two in the bush.
He who laughs last never boils.
People in glass houses keep the doctor away
Let's get back on tangent
That's right up my sleeve
Green behind the ears
It's not rocket surgery
Jumping over backwards, and bending hoops
Like trying to find a mountain in a mole hill
The sky's your oyster
Rome wasn't built with glass houses!
Bite the bullet while it's hot
a catch 24/7
You can't always want what you get.
closing the barn door after the cat is out of the bag
The early bird has the last laugh
The enemy of my enemy is worth two in the bush
You've buttered your bread, now sleep in it.
Barking up the wrong alley
Don't cry over water under the bridge
Don't burn water under the bridge
A watched pot never keeps the doctor away.
The enemy of my enemy's enemy's friend is cool in my books.
It's not rocket science... oh wait, yes, you were talking about Apollo 11, yes it is rocket science.
The enemy of my enemy's enemy's friend is cool in my books.
It's not rocket science... oh wait, yes, you were talking about Apollo 11, yes it is rocket science.
Gredge109
4151
When Dad gets home, the fan is going to hit the roof!
Sweating like a bullet.
Don't beat a dead horse in the mouth.
Sweating like a bullet.
Don't beat a dead horse in the mouth.
When in Rome, don't beat a dead horse.
The early bird gets as the Romans do.
You catch more flies with the worm.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him a dead horse.
You can't always call the kettle black.
The early bird gets as the Romans do.
You catch more flies with the worm.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him a dead horse.
You can't always call the kettle black.
Don't count your eggs and you'll feed him for life.
A stitch in time keeps the doctor away.
An apple a day saves nine.
The early bird calls the kettle black.
Curiosity killed a dead horse.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't keep the doctor away.
No man calls the kettle black.
Rome wasn't built on an island.
A bird in the hand is worth a dead horse.
A stitch in time keeps the doctor away.
An apple a day saves nine.
The early bird calls the kettle black.
Curiosity killed a dead horse.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't keep the doctor away.
No man calls the kettle black.
Rome wasn't built on an island.
A bird in the hand is worth a dead horse.
Loose cannons sink ships
He's sharp as a whip!
You hit the nail on the coffin
I always like to give people the shadow of the doubt
It hit me like a brick wall
I have a beef to pick with you
I was burning the bridge at both ends
He's sharp as a whip!
You hit the nail on the coffin
I always like to give people the shadow of the doubt
It hit me like a brick wall
I have a beef to pick with you
I was burning the bridge at both ends
There's no use crying over a dead horse.
Starve a fever and you'll feed him for a lifetime.
Don't walk with a dead horse.
A chain is only as strong as a man's best friend.
It's better to have loved and lost than to beat a dead horse.
Starve a fever and you'll feed him for a lifetime.
Don't walk with a dead horse.
A chain is only as strong as a man's best friend.
It's better to have loved and lost than to beat a dead horse.
Corfaisus
"It's frustrating because - as much as Corf is otherwise an irredeemable person - his 2k/3 mapping is on point." ~ psy_wombats
7874
Don't put all your eggs in the cat.
lmao i do this often enough there's a list of Shit I've Said and many phrases that kozmin spirits messes up in free spirits are direct quotes
From recent memory:
Don't put all your chickens in one basket
I don't know it off the top of my hand
You don't exactly smell like a spring chicken
Not the sharpest crayon in the box
From recent memory:
Don't put all your chickens in one basket
I don't know it off the top of my hand
You don't exactly smell like a spring chicken
Not the sharpest crayon in the box
It'll cost an apple a day.
It'll cost a dead horse.
Out of the pan and into a dead horse.
It's no use crying over an arm and a leg.
It'll cost a dead horse.
Out of the pan and into a dead horse.
It's no use crying over an arm and a leg.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
A shaved bird is worth two with a bush.
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