# I need some terrible fake idioms/sayings **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 22, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-terrible-fake-idioms-sayings/741105 "2015-12-22T16:00:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-terrible-fake-idioms-sayings/741105/21 "2015-12-22T17:27:56Z")
Lend me your rear! (As in “Hey, look me over!”) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-terrible-fake-idioms-sayings/741105/22 "2015-12-22T17:29:15Z")
> [@Johnny\_Angel](#): > > If wishes were liches, beggars would die. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-terrible-fake-idioms-sayings/741105/23 "2015-12-22T17:30:35Z")
That’s treading on a slippery slope of thin ice ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-terrible-fake-idioms-sayings/741105/24 "2015-12-22T17:32:48Z")
Ahh! Chili today, hot tamale! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-terrible-fake-idioms-sayings/741105/25 "2015-12-22T17:35:49Z")
> [@WF\_Tomba](#): > > Even better: “A bird in the bush is worth two in the bosom.” (Sounding vaguely obscene is a bonus.) A hand in the bush is worth two birds! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-terrible-fake-idioms-sayings/741105/26 "2015-12-22T17:38:14Z")
It is better to have lost your glove than to never had a glove at all. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-terrible-fake-idioms-sayings/741105/27 "2015-12-22T17:39:34Z")
Not quite an idiom, but in a restaurant… **OLLIE:** [_To waiter_] Two beers! **STAN:** Yeah, I’ll have two beers too! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-terrible-fake-idioms-sayings/741105/28 "2015-12-22T17:40:41Z")
True love’s a very stupid thing! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-terrible-fake-idioms-sayings/741105/29 "2015-12-22T17:44:33Z")
Scotty, zip me up! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-terrible-fake-idioms-sayings/741105/30 "2015-12-22T17:45:43Z")
This is the 21st century, you greaseball! There’s no such thing as bigotry! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-terrible-fake-idioms-sayings/741105/31 "2015-12-22T17:53:41Z")
I think my “get up and go” got up and went. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-terrible-fake-idioms-sayings/741105/32 "2015-12-22T17:56:43Z")
She was only a baker’s daughter, but she made my banana cream! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-terrible-fake-idioms-sayings/741105/33 "2015-12-22T18:00:06Z")
The nut falls not far from thee! ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-terrible-fake-idioms-sayings/741105/34 "2015-12-22T18:00:14Z")
You can’t see the forest where they chopped down the trees. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-terrible-fake-idioms-sayings/741105/35 "2015-12-22T18:01:53Z")
My favorite Norm-ism: Ahh, women! Can’t live with 'em … pass the beer nuts, Woody. ---
**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-terrible-fake-idioms-sayings/741105/36 "2015-12-22T18:02:31Z")
> [@](#): > > terentii Not quite an idiom, but in a restaurant… > > OLLIE: [To waiter] Two beers! > > STAN: Yeah, I’ll have two beers too! Nitpick: that was Groucho and Chico. A Night At The Opera. I try to use that line every chance I get.😃 Half of one, six dozen of another. Just two ships that go bump in the night. Grab the bear by the horns. Bury the hatchet at both ends. You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led. That’s it in a nutcase. Listen! Do you smell that? Who do you think you are? Anyway? Don’t you know who I think I am? Where there’s a will, there’s relatives. Don’t count your weasels before they’ve popped. ---
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-terrible-fake-idioms-sayings/741105/37 "2015-12-22T18:08:16Z")
“It was hotter than a dog’s hind leg!” “You know what they say: don’t borrow trouble until trouble borrows you!” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-terrible-fake-idioms-sayings/741105/38 "2015-12-22T18:09:33Z")
> [@Jumpbass](#): > > Nitpick: that was Groucho and Chico. A Night At The Opera. I try to use that line every chance I get.😃 It was Laurel and Hardy, too. “Below Zero,” I think. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-terrible-fake-idioms-sayings/741105/39 "2015-12-22T18:10:43Z")
Of course I know how old this girl is! Two hundred dollars! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-terrible-fake-idioms-sayings/741105/40 "2015-12-22T18:11:46Z")
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