I always reply to any 'F**K this' as though the person is really asking me to have sex with it,
-"oh fuck me'
-"! not even if you paid!"
Head over heels - Hard to find the answer, but got it.. In old english 1771, where the kick in the face makes the head of the victim to be above the heels of the kicker (Note that Heels face down, not up, so you have to think upside down to get your head 'over' a heel of another person, OR be upside down.
Cats have 9 lives, so to skin it, you'd have to kill it 9 ways/times.
If body parts are painted on, they are just for show, and not for use.
tit and tat are short forms in old english for This and That.
Your heels slap down on a road as you walk, slap=hit. yes roads were invented before cars.
Doornails used to be bent over to strengthen the door (and make it stick) and a bent nail is a dead nail.
In some very old english farm terms come in, buying the sow, = marry the daughter, bought the bucket ( to bring milk for the new baby = new life) to kick the bucket ( the bucket is empty, the cow kicks it, its dead) buying the farm was something you tried to do in your lifetime. Some references to Chauser talked about the landowner buying the farm from the dead owner.
Screw the Pooch is interesting.. In modern terms, its like an idiot who thinks he's done a good job, turns out he got it all wrong, based on a joke about a guy who has sex with his dog instead of his girlfriend, but other sources, which seems to be more likely.. when your learning to have sex, and you get it in the wrong hole, but you don't know and continue to orgasm. which matches the meaning of the first.. but I can't find references to dates to say which came first (mind the pun)
Surely a crying child has a legitimate reason for crying. a cut, a broken arm, a dead puppy or a smacked bottom. but to cry over something emotional? c'mon.. if your going to cry, and you don;t HAVE a good reason, you better stop or the reason will be provided for you (a smacked bottom) Usually for boys instead of girls.
First used by long john silver in treasure island when praising jim hawkins you're a "smart as paint"
It simply means that Jim is smart (clever) just as anything freshly painted is smart (neat and well-looking). It's a sort of pun on the two meanings of "smart".
Fit as a fiddle, have you SEEN a fiddle, the curves like a sexy (fit) woman?
and BACK to the ORIGINAL POST (since most of the others are already answered)
When you get married, the top piece of cake has two traditions, you eat it at the wedding or you save it for the 1st year anniversary (Western traditions is to save it = in-case it goes wrong, at least you never really sealed the deal) while others eat it (in Russia, they auction it off for a nice chunk of change = pays for the honeymoon!!) So if you Eat it, you can't have it in your fridge/freezer/cake tin (dependant on ingredients) and if you have it, you obviously can't eat any of it (saliva will promote germs and the cake will be ruined)
I'm an English teacher and this kind of thread is my cup of tea, right up my alley and I just had to be in like Flynn.
I've never heard that one, but it seems silly. I agree that rose petals would make more sense.
