We use them every day, to explain the normality of our day-to-day engagements. “Hey, you seem like you have a chip on your shoulder, what’s going on?”…well actually NOTHING because my shoulder is perfectly clean thank you! See what I mean? We take these outlandish phrases for granted habitually but how did they come about? Who decided that that when you’re in a pickle, you’re in trouble? Let’s find out…
#1. "It ain’t over till the fat lady sings"
Who is this apparently plump female anyway? I have no idea but she obviously makes the finale of something important.

So obviously this slightly tubby woman is a singing conclusion to an unbearably long Opera…interesting!
#2. "Getting Cold Feet"
Hmmm…my appendages do often become slightly frosty but that never causes me to become disheartened or timid, losing my previously established courage. I don’t get it…

Apparently no one knows! Ha-ha
#3. "Cute As a Bug"
Imagine for a moment a bug...cute picture? Hardly. In fact absolutely nothing about any insect is even slightly appealing to me let alone extraordinarily attractive. Yucky!

HUH…so bugs are shrewd and quick-witted? That still does not make very much sense to me but at least we aren’t referring to them as cute.
OTHER FUNNY PHRASES…
By the skin of your teeth – What? Teeth don’t have skin…duh.
Dead as a doornail – Were doornails ever alive? And if they did die, how can we be dead like them…puzzling…
{I want to hear your funny phrases!! Post some of the idioms you use on the regular and see if anyone uses yours!}
Sick as a dog! :)
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