“Pumping someone for information”
:eek:
Good grief, couldn’t they just ask?
Grillin’ him.
Rakin’ him over the coals.
Puttin’ the thumb screws to him.
PRESSING the flesh. Would that be with an iron?
“Keep an eyeball peeled.”
“I’m so hungry, my belly thinks my throat’s cut.”
I “batted my brains out” trying to come up with more of them.
Breathing down your neck.
He was up my ass all day. Yikes!
Getting your feet held to the fire.
That CAN’T be good!
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He’s in deep shit.
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Up shit creek without a paddle.
I guess when it gets right down to it, I prefer not to discuss number two at all.
Kalhoun, I’ve never thought of pressing the flesh in terms of ironing. But I have a real thing with irons - I never touch the bottom part that heats up (obviously) even when I know an iron hasn’t been plugged in for MONTHS. Even when I KNOW it’s cold. I just can’t touch the heated part. Ever. So thinking about ironing skin is making my stomach churn.
Definitely freaks me out.
Well, this is Lieu’s thread so ya better put your hip waders on! 
Busting someone’s balls? Ooof!
You’re going to ream someone out? Yuk.
Scout, my friend’s mom accidentally ironed me when I was a kid. Maybe that’s why I associate the pressing with “pressing”. That’s still pretty bizarre that you can’t touch it when you know it’s cold. Maybe someone ironed you when you were little!
“I’m so hungry I could eat the ass-end out of a cow.”
My co-worker says this regularly. Usually my initial reaction is to want to tell him to go buy some rump roast. 
“He’s got you by the short-and-curlies”
Ouuuuch!!
Everything Dr. John said pretty much goes for me, too.
‘He was ridin’ my ass all day long about <insert project here>’ is one I really don’t like to here.
scout, I, too, am uncomfortable about touching the soleplate of the iron, even when I know it’s cold. I touch it, though, each time just to demontrate (to myself, mind you) how irrational such a thought is.
“Shit-eating grin”
Uh…what?
Tear him a new asshole. What??!?!
He’s so hungry he’d eat the asshole out of a dead skunk. (Now that’s just rude)
Shit-faced. (how unfortunate!)
"I’d like to pick your brain about … " Yuck.
I don’t like “shit-eating grin”, either.
I’ve been wondering what the hell a shit-eating grin means. I feel like people who use the term aren’t the ones to ask. Anybody know where this one comes from?
Not to turn this into something political, but when uttered by the right (wrong?) people, the phrase “regime change” makes me rather edgy.
I always assumed the term meant the person was full of shit. Shit eaters = full of shit. Of course I could be wrong. Not bloody likely, but it happened once.
I know a guy who answers “How ya doin,” with “Happy as a pig in shit.” I’ve heard him say it dozens of times, and it’s still a disturbing image.
You don’t live out in the countryside, do ya, AskNott?