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_refugee_  ·  3705 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Oblique Strategies For The Hubski Generation

    "Don't look a gift horse in the two bushes"

The other day my friend was complaining about salt bagels, asking why they exist, and I said "So deer can lick their wounds." I love making new, barely-sensical idioms - they only appear to make sense if not read too deeply, but most everyone who hears them understands where the phrase is coming from/what it is referencing.





mknod  ·  3705 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah! I do this too. I especially like someone doesn't get it. Every day we say weird idioms and pointing this out really can throw people in a brain loop.

_refugee_  ·  3701 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have two for you.

1 from tonight: "Sounds like a rock star!" Comes from kind of combining "Sounds good" and "You're a rockstar." Like, "I totally approve of all of these things [that you are doing]!" I mean, rock stars, by definition, sound good, so I feel like this is an easy one.

2 just remembered this one I made up on the spot

    sucks more balls than a vacuum in a cotton factory