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Aha! Thanks Georgie, very interesting. Agree with you he could do with some new idioms!!!  ;D

A metaphor even!

Really interesting thread G!

Just to let you know,this week I have heard myself say  "Bite" the bull by the horns" and "There's more than one way to skin a "goose"
:-[  :-[   ;D

Chasing a wild herring?

we'll burn that bridge when we come to it

if a job's worth doing well, it's worth doing badly

the world's your lobster

That's right!

It is never too late for two birds to change horses at half-thingy!

as we used to say at work about my Project - if you want to sell a pig in a poke, you've got to pull a rabbit from the hat, and don.t let the cat out of the bag

I am glad that we are all singing from the same canoe without a paddle on this one.

As my old gran used to say "Eh?"

you can't make an omelette without the fat lady breaking an ill wind

How very true RT!

So we'd better keep our shoulders to the stable door
Our noses to the grindstone
And our ears to pumps!

You're all in exalted company. Winston Churchill was a master of the mixed metaphor, viz: "I smell arat, I see it floating in the air, but I'll nip it in the bud".

Being in the same company as our Winnie?  Now that I would give my eye-teeth for!

Oh yes..............the sands of ill repute are always better on the other side of the pig in the bush.

Slower than treacle running down a blanket in January.

You can't teach ducks to dance................ ;D

He bit the big green weenie

Quote from: Jeannine on July 14, 2007, 11:12:15
He bit the big green weenie

Now that has got to have come from the other side of the pond, what is a weenie? ???

Yes it does, a weenie is an abbreviation of a weiner, a hotdog sausage.

Bit the big green weenie come from the e coli time.It is a rather rude way of saying . He died, like kicked the bucket, or popped off.

XX Jeannine

springtime and lilac time I know, but when exactly is e-coli time?

Did you know that "coup de grace" was French for lawnmower?

and that cul-de-sac means "bottom of the bag" or even "bum-bag". The French say "rue sans issue"