What’s up with the phrase “___ is all but ____.”…I just heard an example of this on CNN, where the on-air person said “Paris is all but kicked out of Japan…” or something like that…meaning she was kicked out of Japan. This phrase in opposition to what the person means…like:
“That girl that played Precious is all but ugly.”—but you mean to say she IS ugly. The phrase is saying she’s everything BUT ugly…it just doesn’t make sense to me since it’s the opposite of what the person is trying to say.
actually, that might be a poor example since the wise-ass remark is “yeah, that’s what I said…she’s ALL BUTT-UGLY. har har.” This thread is old.
Another example: “Nintendo was all but dominating in the 8 and 16bit eras.”…you mean to say Nintendo was in fact dominating the competition, but that sentence actually means they were doing everything EXCEPT dominating.
Holy shit Brooke Baldwin on CNN is such a gorgeous piece of ass.
Anyway, back on point: “A stitch in time saves 9.”—whatever, that one is silly nonsense to me, and I stopped even trying to get the reference way back in elementary school. That makes about as much sense to me as “if it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.”, like Lewis Black once said.
“You get what you give.”—not really a stupid saying…it’s just annoying to me because it’s simply not the case. You could put in a lot of hard work in various areas in life, try to do things the “right” way, but you’ll STILL get shitted on simply because the world just generally sucks ass. It’s kinda like that other one: “Life is what you make of it.” Nah, I can’t really agree with that. Sometimes, life is a big pile of shit despite your best efforts to change things…maybe because Life itself or even God Himself is a big bully that finds it amusing to be an asshole on random occasions.
I dunno but “old-school” seems to carry that positive vibe with it. Whereas when someone says “old”, depending on the situation and the person, it can kind of sound like they’re saying “You’re late man, that shit is old”.
Not really a stupid saying but I hate “It is better to give than to recieve”.
“Half expected ~such and such~ to happen.” - I hate this phrase, I really do, but it WORKS. It’s a valid phrase. How can you half expect something? To me, half expecting something is when you think someone will do something, but you dismiss it, ignore it, and then they do it.
“First time for everything.” - I loathe this phrase. Theoretically speaking, with the infinity of the universe, anything CAN happen, but there are just some things that are plain impossible.
Because old and outdated are somewhat derogatory, whereas old-school is implying age, but with some fondness/nostalgia.
No, it’s not. It’s a younger, dumber generation mishandling/misquoting established phrases. You see the same thing happening in grammar. Over the last 10 years, people got the retarded idea that “a lot” is one word. Every 10 years, there’s some noticeable dumbing-down in spelling, behavior, or grammar in society.
Means you’re envious of someone/thing. You may have the same thing, but something someone else has somehow seems better, even if in your own mind.
Beside yourself means inconsolable. Fit to be tied means you’re in a sputtering rage, acting like somebody who needs to be restrained in order to prevent harm to themselves or others.
When it was first introduced, you have no idea how immensely better things were. Bread back then was usually very hard, or so soft that it would moosh when you tried to cut it.
“He got up on the wrong side of the bed” - I think there are better ways to say that someone’s having a bad mood. Maybe I chose to get up on the opposite side, but I’m in a great mood.
“Great minds think alike” - Dr. Wily and Dr. Light would disagree.
“In like Flynn” - who’s Flynn?
“Kick the bucket” - what does kicking a bucket have anything to do with death?
Allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies, and are more than just ice king on the cake. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go.
Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn’t take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It’s clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts, instead of making a half-harded effort. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother’s mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake.
its not that I prefer vagrants either its just that a home could be anything really, it could be a crummy cardbox in an alleyway you keep going back to to. Really what these guys need are physical structures to live under. So they’re actually ‘houseless.’
i never did like the saying
"you can’t trust (persons name) as far as you can throw them"
makes me think ok so this person is fat so if i can’t throw them far they are untrustworthy
or if they are small i can throw them far so they are untrustworthy wtf does it mean
An apartment is not a house, but ARE both “homes”, (since you live/dwell, receive mail there), so homeless is appropriate. Too many fools these days think an apartment is a house. A house is a single-family dwelling you own or are paying toward ownership. An apartment is a multi-family place you pay a landlord to be allowed to temporarily (according to a contract) squat there without harassment. For reference, see the “My house burned down” thread. Dude had people thinking he lost his house, then he mentions some random families (and somebody he tripped over in the hallway) who he DIDN’T KNOW who were living in there, too. If you are in a fuckin’ building with multiple floors, other families, and separate 3-4 room domiciles on each floor, you live in an apartment, not a house. If you have a landlord, you are in an apartment. If you are in a place with JUST you and people of your choosing and all you pay are the utilities and property tax, and the mortgage, or have satisfied said mortgage and now hold the deed for said property…or are living in a single-family dwelling that you are paying rent on, you live in a house.
Everybody that knows anything knows that phrase should only apply to people of dubious trustworthyness who also look heavy enough that you can only throw them a couple feet if you had to. Something about lies having weight, probably from Scotland or Ireland. Basically a fancier way of saying “I don’t trust them at all.” Geez people, quit thinking about this shit so much. Take it for what it’s saying. We’re not dealing with French here, with flowery double-meanings. And with the “Bird in the hand” thing: better to go for a sure thing than to risk losing on a possibility.
