Sayings you dont understand

[xchurchx]

I live in cornwall and there are hundreds sayings over here such as A1 meaning im ok
but the one i dont get which i heard my mother speak recently is "Butter wouldn't melt in your mouth" which some how means you are too nice :l how does it?

 

[The Brewin]

I live in cornwall and there are hundreds sayings over here such as A1 meaning im ok
but the one i dont get which i heard my mother speak recently is "Butter wouldn't melt in your mouth" which some how means you are too nice :l how does it?

Your misreading this one, the term in its fullest is more akin to 'she acts like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth'. The phrase is not so much that the person is too good, but rather, they act and present themselves that they are so good, even butter wouldn't melt in their mouth (essentially your claiming you are so good, the impossible is possible)


Hope that helps

 

[Brittain95]

OMGWTFBQQ i mean WTF is this shit???

Is it even a saying???

 

[AngryNerd]

It's been said a lot but, to have one's cake and eat it.

 

[ArchAngelKira]

Fiction brings friction to realities burtality

 

[ninjakitty]

like my dad yoused to "apenny saved is worth two in the bush"

 

[Brittain95]

"Break a leg!"

Makes no fucking sense. Breaking a leg is not fun nor is it something that one usually has a good time doing.

I tend to disagree i have passed countless hours of boredom by breaking other peoples legs.

 

[thylasos]

"Mr. glass half-full" never got what that means

Glass half-full or glass half-empty indicate optimism or pessimism respectively, the object being described is objectvely the same, but the person's perception of it as half-empty or half-full depends on their temperament.

 

[thylasos]

"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."Does this meen sticking my penis in a bush is better than masturbating?

That is to say, it's better to be happy with what you have (the bird in the hand) rather than chance it on the something you might be able to obtain, (the two in the bush) but in trying to obtain them, you may well lose what you already have, or end up with nothing.

 

[breadsammich]

"A bird in the bush is worth two in the hand."

What?

If you've already got something, don't try to risk losing it to get more: You already have the bird...don't risk it getting away by going for the two that are in the bush.

 

[thylasos]

"Break a leg!"

Makes no fucking sense. Breaking a leg is not fun nor is it something that one usually has a good time doing.

It's a result of a belief that wishing an actor good luck in a performance would jinx them, as such saying "break a leg", is an understood replacement for wishing good luck without literally doing so.

 

[Caveworm]

I find the saying 'You will always have these moments and that's something they can't ever take them away from you'.

Who or whom exactly are these moment stealer's?

*glances around suspiciously*

 

[Brittain95]

"it's raining cats and dogs" never made a lick of sense to me. anyone care to explain?

Actually that is a very very long story but long story short a along time ago a life form living in the sky carried objects including people into the sky until they would pass out of the lack of oxygen before carrying them across a distance then setting them swiftly but safely on the ground leaving the person or in this case cat or dog extremely disorientated as you could imagine while there is no hard evidence supporting this theory i am however open to theories such as this, hence the raining of the cats and the dogs.

 

[fenrizz]

"At the wrong place at the wrong time"

Never really got it. If your at the wrong place at the wrong time then you should be fine because its the wrong time. What it should be is,

Wrong place at the right time.

or

Right place at the wrong time.

A tourist at the top of The World Trade Center, 9/11 2001.

Wrong place at the wrong time.

 

[BigDeadMushy]

"Break a leg!"

Makes no fucking sense. Breaking a leg is not fun nor is it something that one usually has a good time doing.

It's a result of a belief that wishing an actor good luck in a performance would jinx them, as such saying "break a leg", is an understood replacement for wishing good luck without literally doing so.

I was ninja'd a little,but will build on it from my own knowledge bank.


this one is based in superstition,the idea is to ward off the eyes of the evil spirits with reverse parapsychology.

even if we're not superstitious in normal life,we actors can be a superstitious bunch at showtime,which is why we never mention the name of the cursed play backstage.even when the show IS the cursed one,to the point of only mentioning the lead actor by his name,rather than the role he is playing.the same goes for the actor playing his wife.

that particular one comes from the first ever time it was performed,when the lead actor (according to legend,I wasn't there) literally died onstage opening night for unknown reasons.allegedly on the next performance when his understudy took his place,he overstepped the mark,fell off stage and broke his leg.

 

[NeutralMunchHotel]

"The exception that proves the rule". What the fuck does that mean? If its an exception, it doesn't prove anything!

A while ago "prove" meant the same thing as "test" (hence, "proving ground"). This phrase was never really updated. Therefore, "the exception that proves the rule" means "the exception that tests the rule". Doesn't make the rule any more valid as a result, only that it's being tested (and most likely is wrong).

 

[rje5]

I've never understood what it meant to "have one's cake and eat it too". I mean, what else are you going to do with a cake? A cake is functionally useless if you can't eat it. Unless, of course, you're going to throw it at someone, and I'm sure not going to do that. It's my cake! I have it and I'm going to eat it, too!

This makes the most sense when you say it in reverse. "You can't eat your cake and have it too"

 

[Outright Villainy]

"The exception that proves the rule". What the fuck does that mean? If its an exception, it doesn't prove anything!

This. Jesus I hate this. "There's an exception to every rule" I kind of get, since that can be true enough (not in science), but proving the rule? Wat?

Also, "Begging the question."
No, not its current usage, its original use, as a device to point out circular logic. The phrase makes no sense.

I can certainly see how people mixed it up anyway.

 

[thest3alth]

When something can't 'cut the mustard'. What the fuck man? You.. spread mustard. It's a liquid, sorta. Anything can cut it, or nothing, depending on how you look at it. Either way, it's either impossible or too easy to 'cut the mustard'.

 

[fenrizz]

"It's better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."

Sorry hon, but I've seen what happens to people who love and lose. It ain't pretty!

Thoroughly agree. Worst saying ever. Honestly, since when has getting your heart broken been better than not having it broken at all?

Because it is better to have experienced love, and then had your heart broken, than to never have experienced love at all.