# Innocent phrases that sound dirty **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 8, 2004, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-phrases-that-sound-dirty/268152 "2004-10-08T03:29:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-phrases-that-sound-dirty/268152/21 "2004-10-08T18:32:29Z")
Quote: Originally Posted by Ghanima I had to beat him off with a stick! reminds me of… beating around the bush I seem to be kinda AC/DC today huh? hmm… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![sj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@sj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sj2)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-phrases-that-sound-dirty/268152/22 "2004-10-08T19:52:52Z")
Tossing a Salad. ick. ---
**Author:** ![wheelie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b4bc9f/32.png) [@wheelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheelie)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-phrases-that-sound-dirty/268152/23 "2004-10-08T20:23:58Z")
“Tickle your amals!” Most old British motorcycles have Amal carburettors, tickling means priming. Usually shouted to somebody having trouble starting one. :wally ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-phrases-that-sound-dirty/268152/24 "2004-10-08T20:50:15Z")
Attributed to my ex-boss, Ellen- “I can’t wear skirts around the office- I spend too much time underneath the desks.” [SUB]It’s 'cause she did a lot of the tech work around the office- wiring the network, that sort of thing. You pervs.[/SUB] 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-phrases-that-sound-dirty/268152/25 "2004-10-08T23:24:03Z")
_Nasty_ > [@Keapon Laffin](#): > > Grandma’s Chicken Salad… Wouldn’t Grandma’s Tuna Fish be worse? :eek: :o And the ones I always hated… _Umpteen._ Like as in how many of whatever. Eww! _Blowing the soot out._ Gah! My Dad said this and every. single. time. made me cringe. I don’t care if he was talking about a car exhaust or not, it just connotated bad images. _Making love._ Now this phrase in and of itself doesn’t bother me, it’s because of how and who says it. The ex did it and I found it endearing. Not now though. Then take my Mother for example. Whenever it passed her lips, it always came across as dirty. Something only married used car salesmen, in their 70s era suits, did in seedy hotels while listening to really bad old country music, chain smoking and ogling half-clad teenage girls on the background (silent) TV. Eww again. _Pores of one’s skin._ Another Dadism. Not nasty in a sexual sense, but as in filthy and needs to be cleaned up. A real ‘crawl up your back’ type. The word _nasty_ in general may fall into this category as well. I’m undecided. Of course, Mother wasagain responsible for the first phrase too. I’m thinking it might just be a connection, or lack there of, with her. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-phrases-that-sound-dirty/268152/26 "2004-10-08T23:56:53Z")
I actually said this last week… “A bee landed right on my arm, so I whacked him off with my bus pass!” After a few moments of odd silence I realized what I said and I turned **red**. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-phrases-that-sound-dirty/268152/27 "2004-10-09T00:27:38Z")
“The hooker palmed off the captains tackle.” (It is a reasonable phrase in describing the game of Rugby) ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-phrases-that-sound-dirty/268152/28 "2004-10-09T00:33:04Z")
Or you could just order one of these [Rubber Butt Cap](http://shop.store.yahoo.com/hockeygiant/anrrubendcap.html) . ---
**Author:** ![partlycloudy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/partlycloudy/32/3114_2.png) [@partlycloudy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/partlycloudy)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-phrases-that-sound-dirty/268152/29 "2004-10-09T00:33:37Z")
I always thought “Cock-a-doodle-doo” sounded pretty pervy. ---
**Author:** ![WomanofScorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@WomanofScorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WomanofScorn)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-phrases-that-sound-dirty/268152/30 "2004-10-09T01:41:08Z")
spew. I hate that word. As in, the hose was spewing water. bleah. ---
**Author:** ![Call\_me\_Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Call\_me\_Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Call_me_Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-phrases-that-sound-dirty/268152/31 "2004-10-09T04:10:49Z")
“Is it alright if I touch your bun?” I was getting a hot dog for a friend of mine and she took it the wrong way… ---
**Author:** ![START](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@START](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/START)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-phrases-that-sound-dirty/268152/32 "2004-10-09T04:25:10Z")
I almost gave this it’s own thread before, but the lady that works with the pre-school aged children at my church always talks about how the children “touch her heart” and how “Her entire staff is trying to touch their lives” except one time she said “All of your children have touched me in a special place…” and another time she said “Everyone that works in this ministry is here because they want to touch your children…” and even more unbelievable only a small group of my friends and I seemed to notice how dirty it sounded. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-phrases-that-sound-dirty/268152/33 "2004-10-09T06:10:58Z")
Church expressions: The most powerful position is on your knees. :o ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-phrases-that-sound-dirty/268152/34 "2004-10-09T06:33:40Z")
> [@Call me Frank](#): > > “Is it alright if I touch your bun?” > > I was getting a hot dog for a friend of mine and she took it the wrong way… That’s better’n asking if she could have a bite of your weiner/frank. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-phrases-that-sound-dirty/268152/35 "2004-10-09T06:58:11Z")
I always liked the British offer to “come round and knock you up in the morning.” ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-phrases-that-sound-dirty/268152/36 "2004-10-09T14:37:29Z")
There was a movie _About Last Night…_ made in 1986 ([http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0090583/](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0090583/)). The theme was typical gender politics and the complexities of 20-something dating. The movie’s working title was _Sexual Perversity in Chicago_, but they had to change it when the pre-release focus groups demonstrated that most Americans, including the press, thought “perversity” and “perversion” meant the same thing and the movie was in danger of being labeled pornographic despite being pretty innocuous. ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-phrases-that-sound-dirty/268152/37 "2004-10-09T15:49:51Z")
I can’t tell you the exact phrases but in my most recent Biology lecture both the words **cleavage** and **anal** were used within two sentences of each other. In fact **cleavage** was said twice. The first time was a bit of a double-take, the second one we were sure of. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-phrases-that-sound-dirty/268152/38 "2004-10-09T16:15:28Z")
That’s right! That’s the way to handle that big cock! Dont let it intimidate you. Just grab it and start squeezing. [sub]and there’s chicken dinner tonight for everyone![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-phrases-that-sound-dirty/268152/39 "2004-10-09T16:51:26Z")
The British have a lot of phrases that make some of us do a double take. I got beat to the punch with “knock you up”. But apparently Brits enjoy having a fag (cigarette) after dinner too. Don’t get me started on bangers or spotted dick :eek: ---
**Author:** ![BlackNGold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@BlackNGold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackNGold)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-phrases-that-sound-dirty/268152/40 "2004-10-09T17:12:03Z")
Not sure I these qualify, but here goes… The other day I was reading my GF’s criminology textbook to her. It described a certain kind of camera as having a “sturdy tripod”. I decided that would be _my_ porn name. A few days later, we were watching _Good Eats_. Alton described vinegar as adding “snappy tang”. Yep, now that’s _her_ porn name. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-phrases-that-sound-dirty/268152.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-phrases-that-sound-dirty/268152.md?page=3)