This thread isn’t worth a fart in a windstorm. Or a spit in the ocean. Or the powder to blow it up.
(I collect idioms a bit myself.)
If this thread were measuring brain power, we wouldn’t have enough powder here to blow our nose.
I wouldn’t touch it with a twelve foot Lithuanian!
Lots of replies already, I see. Nice to know we’re not asleep at the wheel or letting the grass grow under our feet.
I got thinking about a 'wild goose chase ’ the other day, most people would imagine lots of motion, chaos, noise etc… These things would be related to a farm raised goose being chased. A wild goose would simply fly away; it’s completely futile
Don’t hold your breath. It’ll be a cold day in hell before you get blood from that turnip!
You’re barking up the wrong tree. Cause you can’t fight fire with city hall. And you can’t have everything. And some days, you just can’t win.
OHNO!! APHORISMS!!
As a recent fortune cookie said: You can put all your eggs in one basket, just guard the basket closely.
OK it’s not quite what the OP wanted. Whatever whatever I do what I want!
From the once world renowned Acme Exploding Newsgroup, this, uh, nugget of wisdom: “posting html to usenet makes about as much sense as taking a shit in a urinal.”
I’m kinda attached to the phrase “going around Robin Hood’s barn” for taking the long way or the hard way.
This thread has turned into a real curate’s egg I would add some more gems to this this list, but it would be like a broken pencil…
pointless
Feh. You guys are throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Putting the cart before the horse is always a bad approach.
I can’t work out if people are putting age before beauty, pearls before swine, or shit before the shovel.
Ah well, can’t wring blood from a stone - which, when rolling, gathers no moss.
Come on gang, collecting these is like sweeping back the ocean with a broom.
Maybe we should stop flogging a dead horse, after all, the cake isn’t worth the candle.
Anyway, most of the phrases used so far are about as much use as a chocolate teapot.
Better dead than Red.
Better Red than dead.
I must admit I’m curious as to what this list is good for. Seems like it’s just trying to sew a button on a custard pie.
It’s dead as a Dodo.
I’d like to contribute to this thread, but I’d have about as much chance as a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.
I’m reminded of an ex-supervisor’s favorite: “Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?”
Love, Phil
How’s about a new one: “We just have to wait til the Democratic nomination process is over, and then things will calm down”?
You can’t put toothpaste back in the tube.