First, the backstory:
I was at a birthday party for one of The Littlest Briston’s classmates over the weekend when I met quite possibly the worst person I’ve ever met in my life. A loudmouthed nitwit who talked about herself and her life nonstop, alternating between how her life was the envy of everyone lucky enough to know her, and how utterly terrible everything was in her life what with everyone and everything out to screw her over.
A few minutes into our time together, I knew she was utterly full of shit in everything she said, and started to tune her out. While I was lost in my own thoughts, I suddenly realized that she had paused and was waiting for me to respond to what she had said.
“…I mean, can you believe he’d try something like that?”, she asked.
“Huh. Unbelievable”, I half-heartedly returned, when all of a sudden this game formed in my head.
“Yeah, he was such a jerk”, she said.
Time to see if this could work: “Yeah, I know the type. Always pissing in Paris, ya know?”
“EXACTLY! You know just what I mean…”, she replied.
So naturally, I’ll now be doing everything in my power to make it known the world over that “pissing in Paris” is now the official colloquialism for “saying something which is meaningless, just to see if some pompous jackass will act like they know exactly what you’re talking about”.
Now, the game:
Simple – come up with a definition for the previous person’s colloquialism, and then leave a colloquialism of your own for the next person to define.
Reading my pet goat - Trying to make sense of soemthing after it’s been figuratively masticated, digested and “discarded” in a completely unrecognizeable form. (i.e. I reviewed the version of my idea that the committee finally approved - it was like reading my pet goat.)
“Winching up an old boot” - remembering useless crap that you not only don’t need, but that distracts you from remembering what you were trying to think about.