# Phrases that sound "dirty" but aren't... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 22, 2013, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/671922 "2013-10-22T12:13:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/671922/41 "2013-10-22T22:52:11Z")
Masticating a choice piece of tenderloin. Visiting the rectory. ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/671922/42 "2013-10-22T23:01:58Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > I seem to recall a scene where someone said “conjugating irregular verbs” with an arched eyebrow, but can’t recall where… “Are you sure you were talking about waterskiing? From where I sat it looked like you were conjugating some irregular verbs.” --Grace Kelly, in To Catch A Thief ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/671922/43 "2013-10-22T23:56:33Z")
> [@ryobserver](#): > > “Are you sure you were talking about waterskiing? From where I sat it looked like you were conjugating some irregular verbs.” --Grace Kelly, in To Catch A Thief Yes! Right before she and the French girl have a cat fight! “How about if we stand in shallower water and continue this discussion about whether I’m a little girl” (or something like that). Well done - thanks! ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/671922/44 "2013-10-23T00:01:49Z")
How about a single word? Niggardly. Perfectly good word, forever tainted due to ignorance. sigh ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/671922/45 "2013-10-23T00:15:50Z")
Not quite a “dirty” connotation - but a phrase uttered by a hapless nitwit who was convicted of being an accomplice in the Monster of Florence serial murder case, attained lasting notoriety in Italy. Mario Vanni (a.k.a. il Torsolo (Apple Core), while on trial repeatedly referred to his associates as “picnicking friends”. Soon this became a popular slang term referring to hanging out with sleazy types and being up to no good. “Did you have fun with your ‘picnicking friends’?” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/671922/46 "2013-10-23T00:19:54Z")
What’s unfair is the planet with the most beautiful name is the one that gets made fun of the most. By the way, I have pictures of an [eruption from Uranus](http://www.dvice.com/archives/2012/04/telescope_spots.php) if anyone wants to see. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/671922/47 "2013-10-23T00:25:02Z")
Not a phrase, so much as a name: Dick Trickle ---
**Author:** ![Dickerman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@Dickerman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dickerman)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/671922/48 "2013-10-23T00:36:29Z")
I wish I could recall the exact quote and circumstances, but one time at dinner I was discussing something with my Mother-in law (probably the food) and in reference to Her Majesty The Queen, I finished a sentence with the phrase “pluck her partridge”. She gave me a funny look as though I had just said something ribald, and I realized it might be thought of in that way soon after I said it, but was entirely unintentional and off-the-cuff. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/671922/49 "2013-10-23T00:48:45Z")
Happened just tonight, when I asked my wife: “Do you want me to warm up your buns before I stick the weiners in?” ---
**Author:** ![Quint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/76d3ee/32.png) [@Quint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quint)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/671922/50 "2013-10-23T06:41:40Z")
Lickedy split. Filthy!! ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/671922/51 "2013-10-25T02:52:59Z")
Leaky burrito. ---
**Author:** ![James\_Toothpaste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e56c9b/32.png) [@James\_Toothpaste](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Toothpaste)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/671922/52 "2013-10-25T19:08:14Z")
> [@Lendervedder's Bloated Corpse](#): > > “Take Exit 69 onto Big Beaver.” > [@NoClueBoy](#): > > summa cum laude > [@cochrane](#): > > Three actual towns in Pennsylvania: The road from Blue Ball to Paradise runs through Intercourse. > [@Yllaria](#): > > Exit 664 on I-5 used to have a sign reading Balls Ferry. Google Earth doesn’t show it now, although it does show Balls Ferry Road nearby. Yes, it’s childish, but I was usually tired enough by the time I reached it to giggle. LOL at these!! ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/671922/53 "2013-10-25T20:07:03Z")
I’m going to defenestrate her tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/671922/54 "2013-10-26T00:33:23Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > I’m going to defenestrate her tonight. Where’s her “tonight”? ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/671922/55 "2013-10-26T01:14:44Z")
“You always were a cunning linguist, James” (Bond), by Miss Moneypenny in a Bond flick when he said he “was brushing up on his French” while in bed with a gal. From a former cow-orker looking at an antique wall map: What’s with the “cum” in \*Mare Pacifi- cum\* ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/671922/56 "2013-10-26T01:42:34Z")
Polling the electorate. ---
**Author:** ![James\_Toothpaste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e56c9b/32.png) [@James\_Toothpaste](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Toothpaste)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/671922/57 "2013-10-26T16:10:26Z")
> [@campp](#): > > Shut the Front Door! That actually means shut the f\*\*\* up. ---
**Author:** ![James\_Toothpaste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e56c9b/32.png) [@James\_Toothpaste](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Toothpaste)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/671922/58 "2013-10-26T16:11:41Z")
> [@Ignatz](#): > > “You always were a cunning linguist, James” (Bond), by Miss Moneypenny in a Bond flick when he said he “was brushing up on his French” while in bed with a gal. > From a former cow-orker looking at an antique wall map: > > What’s with the “cum” in > > \*Mare > > Pacifi- > > cum\* 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/671922/59 "2013-10-26T22:18:42Z")
> [@Lendervedder's Bloated Corpse](#): > > Actually, I think I can make it sound even dirtier: > > “Take 69 to Big Beaver and get off.” Big Beaver? You gotta keep going until you’ve got Quarton. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2013, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/671922/60 "2013-10-27T03:30:38Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > I searched on “origin shoot your wad” and one of the first results was an old SDMB thread - I love the Dope! > > [Shooting your wad - etymology - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=276584) > > In short - it looks like you’re right! It is likely more of an ammunition reference that _later came to be considered_ a slang for ejaculation. Ignorance fought! And [here](http://www.songlyrics.com/steeleye-span/bonny-black-hare-lyrics/)are a whole bunch more. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/671922.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-that-sound-dirty-but-arent/671922.md?page=4)