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What are some phrases you can think of that don't make sense.

  • Sweat like a pig (pigs don't sweat)
  • Colder than a witches tit
  • It's darkest just before the dawn
  • Low man on the totem pole
  • You can't have your cake and eat it too
 
What are some phrases you can think of that don't make sense.

  • Sweat like a pig (pigs don't sweat)
  • Colder than a witches tit
  • It's darkest just before the dawn
  • Low man on the totem pole
  • You can't have your cake and eat it too
I just know I'm gonna be all up in this thread saying, "That totally makes sense--what're you talking about?!"
 
  • You can't have your cake and eat it too
Makes sense to me. Once you've eaten your cake, you no longer have it in your possession; it's gone. Thus you can only "have" your cake, or you can eat your cake; you can't do both, because the two are mutually exclusive.
 
But a lot of those do make sense.
No pot to piss in - too poor to afford a chamberpot
low man on totem pole - figures on a totem pole are necessarily arranged vertically, as are people in a heirarchy
and if you think witches tits are warm, you've never been to bed with an actual witch

on the other hand, you can eat your cake and have it too: when you eat it, you still have it, it's right there in your stomach.

barfo
 
What are some phrases you can think of that don't make sense.

  • Sweat like a pig (pigs don't sweat)
  • Colder than a witches tit
  • It's darkest just before the dawn
  • Low man on the totem pole
  • You can't have your cake and eat it too
I always heard it as colder than a witches titty in a brass bra.
 
Having a jam session....not sure how "jam" became slang for playihng music or music itself like "kick out the jams"
 
But a lot of those do make sense.
No pot to piss in - too poor to afford a chamberpot
low man on totem pole - figures on a totem pole are necessarily arranged vertically, as are people in a heirarchy
and if you think witches tits are warm, you've never been to bed with an actual witch

on the other hand, you can eat your cake and have it too: when you eat it, you still have it, it's right there in your stomach.

barfo

Figures the resident pirate would be the one that can definitively say a witches tit is cold.
 
Here's one I honestly don't know about. Is "calling a spade a spade" a racist term? I could make an argument either way.
 
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