# What is your favourite slang expression? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 19, 2020, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-slang-expression/920978 "2020-09-19T04:49:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-slang-expression/920978/21 "2020-09-22T16:56:49Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > My version is “slicker’n snake shit.” Mine is “Slicker than snot on a doorknob.” My favorite slang word is “groovy”. I use it an awful lot. My buddy and I use 30’s and 40’s jazz slang quite a bit. “Solid” is a favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Cayuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cayuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cayuga)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-slang-expression/920978/22 "2020-09-22T17:06:18Z")
My current favorite is one I picked up from the Brits on these boards: “I couldn’t be arsed to [whatever].” I do pronounce the R in the middle, though. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Cayuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cayuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cayuga)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-slang-expression/920978/23 "2020-09-22T17:12:12Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > You know those bumps they put in parking lots to make people slow down? My parents always called them “sleeping policemen”. None of my schoolmates ever seemed to know the term. I don’t know if it was a regional thing, or a generational thing. > [@Colibri](#): > > I used to hear that when I lived in New Zealand. Here in Panama they call them “policias muertos,” or “dead policemen,” a little more morbid. My mom (b. 1933 and never visited Panama or New Zealand, and only once to England) called them “lying-down policemen,” which is neither morbid nor easy to say. ---
**Author:** ![Cayuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cayuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cayuga)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-slang-expression/920978/24 "2020-09-22T17:13:06Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > If someone asks my advice as I am assisting them with a project, I will probably respond, “You’re humping this goat. I’m just holding the horns.” > > I guess my favored colloquialisms run to rude and bawdy. Don’t judge me. I don’t judge; I admire. I’m definitely adding that to my repertoire. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-slang-expression/920978/25 "2020-09-22T18:02:42Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > “Fine as frog hair, split four ways” That reminds me of the word, tetrapiloctomy. I like: - Half a bubble off - Let’s scratch gravel and mosey - You can’t fertilize a field by farting through a barbed wire fence - Lower than a snake’s ass\*\* in a wagon rut \*\* or a snake’s ventral scutes, if you prefer formality. Is there a more formal way to say wagon rut? > [@MrDibble](#): > > Do you only have them in parking lots? We have them in roads as well. Ah, yes - speed bumps, speed humps, speed tables, and speed cushions. All describing slightly different things. All could be sleeping (or otherwise inert) policemen. All are traffic calming devices. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-slang-expression/920978/26 "2020-09-22T18:06:33Z")
That’s a great expression, better’n “where men are men and sheep are nervous”. I also like (but rarely use) “Alderman Lushington”, “have no fish and a wet arse”, “not the only onion in the stew”, “woolloomooloo yankee”, “Arkansas wedding cake”, “Irish twins”, “diddumsdiddy” and “the mayor of Crapville”. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-slang-expression/920978/27 "2020-09-22T18:52:09Z")
I’m very fond of “Well, f— me running.” Once, in a moment of extreme surprise, I burst out, “Well, f— my doctor!” ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-slang-expression/920978/28 "2020-09-23T05:07:43Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > “Fine as frog hair, split four ways” Just sent this to my dad. I don’t remember it, but maybe he knows it. > [@Jumpbass](#): > > Mine is “Slicker than snot on a doorknob.” Make it a porcelain doorknob, and then you’ll have another one of my dad’s favorite expressions. ---
**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-slang-expression/920978/29 "2020-09-23T14:48:15Z")
“Well, fuck me stupid.” ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-slang-expression/920978/30 "2020-09-23T18:53:57Z")
“christ on a bike” is also a good one, along with the variation “Judas Priest on a two-stroke moped” We also often say that our children, when behaving in bizarre ways, are “completely hatstand” in honour of the classic Viz character Roger Irrelevant. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-slang-expression/920978/31 "2020-09-24T02:17:25Z")
“Not my circus, not my monkeys.” And the British, “What’s that when it’s at home?” ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-slang-expression/920978/32 "2020-09-24T03:18:19Z")
Saw off me starboard leg and salt me for a herring. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-slang-expression/920978/33 "2020-09-24T09:48:27Z")
“Pull the other one, it’s got bells on” ---
**Author:** ![Hook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@Hook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hook)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-slang-expression/920978/34 "2020-09-24T13:13:56Z")
Raining piss and pick-handles. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-slang-expression/920978/35 "2020-09-24T15:41:02Z")
“Le voy a enseñar cuantos pares son tres botas” Literally “I’m going to teach him how many pairs (of boots) are in three boots” It means “I’m going to beat him up”. It lends itself to delicious epressions like “If this goes on I’m going to go the post office and start a three boot pair explanation tour” ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-slang-expression/920978/36 "2020-09-24T17:38:13Z")
Pura tilin tilin, pa’ na’ de paletas. (Lots of bell ringing, but the truck is out of popsicles = All hat and no cattle.) ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-slang-expression/920978/37 "2020-09-24T17:55:49Z")
My version is “Hey, I’m fuckin’ this monkey, you’re just holding the tail!” ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-slang-expression/920978/38 "2020-09-24T18:06:07Z")
> [@Philliam](#): > > My version is “Hey, I’m fuckin’ this monkey, you’re just holding the tail!”. A co-worker would say, of a guy who was an indiscriminate horndog, “He’d fuck a snake if he could get someone to hold its head.” ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-slang-expression/920978/39 "2020-09-25T12:25:30Z")
Since watching Derry Girls it’s “catch yourself on.” ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-slang-expression/920978/40 "2020-09-26T15:22:40Z")
I found myself using a favourite today: _I wouldn’t touch it with a shitty stick_. That is, I won’t have anything to do with it (also used for him, them, etc). j [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-slang-expression/920978.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-slang-expression/920978.md?page=3)