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Ain't no way I'm clicking that link...
As for cool phrases, my favourite is: "It's raining cats and dogs" (because it's funny if you imgane it, bit also macabre when you know th reason behind the phrase => back in the days the dead cats and dogs from allays would wash up on the main street when it was pouring down like crazy).
Wow I didn’t know that. Dark.
I didn't know the backstory of cats and dogs being so dark. Wth?
there was no drainage, heavy rains would flood and dead animals would swash up from the alleyways.
there were probably a lot of dead birds and rats, but cats and dogs are larger and more visible.
I was looking for a better open-source platform to upload the file. If you suggest any, I could do that. :)
Why not just copy and paste the contents of the file into your post? No need to link a file unless it's yuuuge
You could use https://gitlab.com/timvisee/send, but honestly since there's no well known privacy-friendly platform (catbox.moe is great but only for images/video), it's bound to look sketchy
"half assed" was quite funny
Don't half ass it. Full ass it.
"multiple ways to skin a cat"
"Thank you for having me"
It's weird
"Thankyou for being had."
"If you had me, you'll be thank"
Probably short for "thank you for having me over" or another word implied at the end.
"Thank you for having/picking/tolerating me as your guest"
See? Weird.
GIVUS WE THANKIS TOUND YE BLARSTED SHIVAS
🥹
Me being Catalan, a culture with many poop related phrases and traditions, I'm pretty fond of "when shit hit the fan"
Don't shit where you eat.
That one is fun how it goes in Spanish "no metas la polla donde metes la olla", don't put your dick where you put your pot (as in cooking pot).
It never stops to make me smile that most Germans cannot pronounce "squirrel" properly, while most native English speakers cannot pronounce the same word in German "Eichhörnchen".
Ike cough hyorn chin
How'd I do?
"Fleshed out" just means to explain & expand upon.
Like a fart in a skillet.
Apparently, "like a fart in ..." is a common thing. There's this website that shows movie scenes with certain phrases: Playphrase.
Have a look at yourself: https://www.playphrase.me/#%2Fsearch%3Fq=like+a+fart+in&pos=0&language=en
I've come across two "like a fart in the church" one, which I did not really understand. I think it is used for unpleasant situations.
Like a fart in a trance.
American here. I live in a Northern urban area, and have never heard this. I wonder if it's regional or old or new. Looked it up, the internet says it's Appalachian, so, Eastern US. I might start using this now hahaha
Yep lol. I live in a small rural Ohio town. When I first heard it, it was from a friend's wife and even he had to look it up. She grew up on a small farm nearby.
These kids run through the house like shit through a goose.
Native English speaker, never heard this one.
It's a West Texasism.
It definitely sounds both rural and southern
Same, but that's hilarious
+1 for it's raining cats and dogs
But also
that's the way the cookie crumbles is just adorable
dinkin flicka just rolls off the tongue
bite the bullet is so raw and literal and
Bob's your uncle is just... No. Who the fuck is Bob 😂
dinkin flicka
I have never seen this before
If you didn't know, biting the bullet doesnt mean killing yourself. It comes from back in the day when soldiers would be given a bullet to bite down on while they got their leg amputated. Which is kind of even more gruesome
"When you mess with the bull, you get the horns."
for some reason the nword is stuck in my head and popped up instantly when I read this
-_-
I don't know why
I guess because it's tabboo
From the Appalachian region of the US, I bring you:
"I'll cut the blood out of you!"
and more generally within the US (I think?):
"I'll clean your clock!"
Both are threatening a fight, one a little more graphically than the other. I don't think I've heard either in a very long time, and it was only ever from my grandmother that I'd heard the first phrase. Not directly, as in discussing idioms.
