I still use a few nadsat phrases/Clockwork Orangisms, including “starry decreps” and “appendy-shitehouse”.
From the band Gaelic Storm’s song One More Day Above the Roses: “It’s not the cough that carries you off; it’s the coffin they carry you off in.” I love both the sentiment and the turn of phrase.
Thanks – the saying makes more sense than I expected it would ! (Not implying that Americans are crazy; just that fine and “telling” expressions – anybody’s – are often nonsense ones.)
Hoist by one’s own petard.
“Not my monkey, not my circus.” I think it’s Polish in origin? Anyway, I’ve only come across it once or twice, but I find it amusing.
Re: “As the actress said to the bishop”
OK, so it’s you and me against the world!
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I like it. I’ve heard another variation,…“Not my pig, not my farm, not my problem.”
It costs nothing to pay attention.
In like Flynn!
On the old “Newhart” series, Julia Duffy’s character would often toss out a totally insincere “Sorry sorry sorry!” Which my wife and I picked up on and still use with each other to this day.
FCM already mentioned my favorite word, “callipygian”. (Having shapely buttocks) I think I stumbled across that one in a dictionary many years ago and it was immediately, as an old HS teacher of mine used to say, inscribed in the fleshy tablets of my brain.
I’ve uttered those words in all sincerity, while pouring Kaluha into my coffee and hitting a joint.
I need to start using this more:
“Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc.” We gladly feast on those who would subdue us.
Not just pretty words.
Whenever an inanimate object does something it shouldn’t, like falling off a shelf, I always say “Well, who asked you?”
A saying from a friend of mine:
Someone else’s success is not my failure.
“Clothes make a man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” - Mark Twain
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro” -Hunter Thompson
“Everybody has opinions: I have them, you have them. And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Well, that’s horsepuckey, of course. We are not entitled to our opinions; we are entitled to our informed opinions. Without research, without background, without understanding, it’s nothing. It’s just bibble-babble. It’s like a fart in a wind tunnel, folks.” -Harlan Ellison
“You can’t win, you can’t break even, and you can’t get out of the fucking game.” -Harlan Ellison
Lack of planning on your end does not constitute an emergency on mine.
“The light at the end of the tunnel is the light of an oncoming train.” - Robert Lowell
“With friends like that, who needs enemas?”
" . . .but you know what really filets my fish?.." said during a rant that I yelled at the whole room when my boss did / said some outrageous thing to me (over the phone). I was really worked up and then I saw one guy trying hard to stifle his laughter. It immediately diffused my tantrum. :o
I like the words “mendacity” and “chicanery”
Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows.