# Speech limbering-up phrases

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speech-limbering-up-phrases/620993>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 5, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speech-limbering-up-phrases/620993 "2012-05-05T15:05:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speech-limbering-up-phrases/620993/1 "2012-05-05T15:05:47Z")

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Irish wristwatch

Wicked liquid

Vicious bishops viscous biscuit

She stood on her balcony inexplicably hiccuping and amicably beconing him in

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**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speech-limbering-up-phrases/620993/2 "2012-05-05T15:29:04Z")

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The Leith Police dismisseth us.

Red jelly, yellow jelly, red jelly, yellow jelly…

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speech-limbering-up-phrases/620993/3 "2012-05-05T15:37:53Z")

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In high school drama, we did:

red leather, yellow leather

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and others I don’t remember any more 🙂

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speech-limbering-up-phrases/620993/4 "2012-05-05T17:05:02Z")

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Back when I was much more gullible and there were so few ways to check him out on stuff, my dad said that this was the longest word he knew and that it was some kind of chemical gas or something:

diethylsulphonethylmethylmethane

Broken down into syllables, it might serve your needs:

di-ethyl-sulpho-nethyl-methyl-methane

Ot you could go with

Beep belly oten doten bo bopa deeten dotten

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**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speech-limbering-up-phrases/620993/5 "2012-05-06T07:55:56Z")

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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious).

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**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speech-limbering-up-phrases/620993/6 "2012-05-06T12:36:21Z")

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I always warm up with polyethylene terephthalate.

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**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speech-limbering-up-phrases/620993/7 "2012-05-06T13:15:51Z")

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An enemy anemone

(it took me two goes to even _type_ that)