Someone once said that insults “roll of him like a duck”.
“Half a dozen of one, half a dozen of the other” makes perfect sense. “It’s a doggie dog world” is in my repertoire, because it’s just fun to say “doggie dog.”
It’s a snoopy snoop world.
I knew someone who would say “Six dozen of one, half of one another.”
A senior manager at work, overly fond of business bullshit, exhorted us at a start of year kick-off meeting to, “Run towards the bullets, they might be being fired from the opportunity gun!”
That is so very wrong.
That’s a good way to get trampled.
You’ve buttered your toast, now you can lie in it.
You sure you remembered that right? How about: Make like a tree and leave!
Make like a shepherd and get the flock outta here!
Make like a banana and split!
Make like horse droppings and hit the road!
No, that was Kermit the Frog who said that, in The Muppet Movie.
:dubious: That was sort of the point, no? Tim quoted it correctly.
(Later, it resulted in the character slapping himself in the back of the head and saying, “It’s ‘leave’, you idiot! ‘Make like a tree, and leave.’ You sound like a damn fool when you say it wrong.”)
I’m fond of saying things “stink to high hell”
Yes. Until I was corrected by a good friend who almost died laughing when she realized what I was saying…I would say – “Nip it in the butt”… instead of “bud” of course. English is my second language and that is how I heard it. 
:smack:
English is the third language of a friend of mine (her first and second being Danish and German, respectively), so she does this quite frequently. Her most recent one was “boiling it down to a fine art.”
You’re on very thin ice, and you’ll end up in hot water.
Originally Posted by Senegoid
You sure you remembered that right? How about: Make like a tree and leave!
“Why don’t you make like a tree… and, get the fuck outta here!”–
Boondock Saints
More bonus points for not saying “he’s a real trooper.”
Mona Lisa was as happy as a clam when the world was flat as a pancake
HA! It is SOOO annoying to hear people say they could care less. I usually respond with something like, “So, you give to their charity?”
I also wonder about “shits and giggles”. I love that phrase, but I hardly giggle when I shit, so… Maybe “shits and giggles” means “good stuff” or “cool”??
Is the Queen a Catholic?
I’ve had a few people say that to me. I respond with a blank stare and a mental countdown till they realise what they’ve said.
My boss used to say that numbers would bounce around like swiss cheese. He stopped maybe a year ago. Maybe someone shamed him into stopping.
Remember kids, when a mixed metaphor sprouts up, it should be derailed.
Take it for granite.
It actually sort of makes sense, the person who used it thought that it just meant that something is rock-solid, obvious or goes without saying.
I had a dear friend who used to try and “testify” (in the Christian sense) at inappropriate times. He was a sweet, snaggle-toothed old thing, grew up in a one room shack on the Shenendoah river, and we’d forgive him just about anything.
Besides, it was always a hoot, because he could never get straight the difference between “By the grace of God” and “But for the Grace of God” he used them interchangeably to hilarious effect. There were others that he used to mash up but I can’t think of any now. Too bad, he was like a walking Mad Lib.