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Ever notice how often old quotations are wrongly said so they make no sense?
For example:
1. Tough "road" to hoe. It's Tough "row" to hoe. Why would one hoe a road?
2. Proof is in the pudding. It's "Proof of the pudding is in the eating."
3. How about "For all intensive purposes." It's "For all intents and purposes."
4. Just a question: What the heck does "like white on rice" mean?
How many more are out there?
 
This one came over the desk this AM...

That used to bother me, but I've "come around 360 degrees on that way of thinking".

Umm..wait...
 
Outcome based education. You don't have to BE correct as long as somebody can figure out what you mean. I was in a meeting with the principal of my sons elementary school (a PHD). We were contending a portion of his I.E.P., and when I called him on a statement he said "that's not what it means". I asked him and the teachers at the table (all with bachelors, or masters degree's) how come they couldn't put down on paper what they MEANT. Needless to say I was not allowed back to any meetings while he was in that school.
 
Yup, came from the Brits. Short pants. Just like the hood being called the bonnet. Must be the queen's English. Not the term the Rebels use.
 
"My cousin's on a nucular submarine." Now come to think of it both grammar and spelling are amiss here.
 
I've always wondered about "back and forth". Don't you have to go forth before you can come back?
 
Ex wife used to say it was a "doggy dog" world. I think she meant "dog eat dog."

Another fellow used to say "pacific" when he really meant "specific."

There are more that I just couldn't bring to mind right away......
 
ok cool hand here it is

shamelessly taken off the interweb

white on rice - To be on or close to something.

When Krispy Kreme Donuts opened their first shop in Boston this summer, the locals were on it like white on rice.

the word does not carry any racist connotations, and refers strictly to the foodstuff "rice", which is in fact entirely white.

While most people may figure that this must be a regional phrase due to the obvious ethnical ties of rice, while researching, I learned that it is actually more associated with opportunist politics than anything else.
'Like white on rice' dates from the early-mid eighties, but it got its most famous use in the mid nineties. That?s when Sharon Stone said that if Bill Clinton had not been married, she would have ?been on him like white on rice.?
 
In the classified furniture ads I'm always amused by the folks trying to sell a "chester drawers" or a "chase lounge".
 
Some of these were funny enough to make me spit out my coffee. My wife was glad I was not choking- she is NOT a fan of performing the hieney-lick maneuver...I'll see myself out
 
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"There will be Hell to pay." This sounds like it describes a matter of remuneration to be taken up with Satan. The entire and correct quotation is: "There will be the devil to pay with no tar nor pitch hot." In this case, "devil" is the name given to the seam between a ship's planks which is right on the water-line. And "pay" in the quotation is an old term for filling a crack or seam. With no "tar nor pitch hot" to pay the devil's seam, the quote describes a hopeless situation.
 
To me, "like white on rice" implies "all over it" or "it's a 'given' factor"... like flies on a manure pile, like crows on roadkill.

As in: If you offer to give him that tractor for free, he'll be on that deal like white on rice.
 
I used to work with a good friend that was Apostolic. When he would get real upset at something he was working on, he would say out very loudly, "What the FFFFFFfrank". The first time I heard it, I about rolled on the floor laughing.
 
(quoted from post at 23:23:39 02/18/16) Anyone remember Norm Crosby?
No one could screw up the English language like him and make you laugh at the same time.
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That was his whole routine. He did that on purpose.
I think he was the one that said wearing a mustache made him look extinguished.
 
(quoted from post at 23:33:59 02/18/16) I used to work with a good friend that was Apostolic. When he would get real upset at something he was working on, he would say out very loudly, "What the FFFFFFfrank". The first time I heard it, I about rolled on the floor laughing.
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A common one around here is "Oh sh-sh-sh-sugar!" or "Oh sh-sh-sh-shingle nails!"
 
Tongue in cheek, shootin' the breeze, deeper than my boots, three dog night, dog n suds, a blue moon, like a tick hound full of ticks, busier than a cat coverin' up poop on a hot tin roof, puttin' butter on a burn so's one of the dogs would lick it off and heal things up, I was snug as a bug.
Danny
 
Norwegian "Lutren" grandma wanted to stop at the "I Yee and A" after church, before the Catlicks got there.
 
Trailer plow o ya is it a gooseneck or bumper pull ? Instead of trailing plow or drawn plow as opposed to a mounted or integral plow
 
Decimate. One of the most misunderstood and misused expressions in the English language.

The original meaning: When the Roman Empire was at its peak, the punishment for failure in their assigned mission was that Caesar would kill every 10th soldier. This was known as decimating his troops as punishment.
 
SWMBO often comes up with such phrases. Among some of the more recent, were 'rocket surgery', as opposed to brain scientist; eating a 'full course meal', as opposed to a 'four course venue'; and one of my favorite a few weeks ago, after the dog went flying off the back porch on ice, she commented that he "went down like a Pollock steer". When I went to correct her, she said that I often used that expression. I had to tell her that what I used was 'POLE AXED STEER', as in a butcher shop. She still thinks its a Polish steer......
 
One I've been hearing a lot lately is " at the same token".


When my daughter was about 10 years old she came home from school one day and announced that her best freind was "blacktoast intolerant". I can empathize, I don't like my toast burnt either.
 
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