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| Old Sayings and Slang; Where do they come from | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 30 2012, 11:22 AM (221 Views) | |
| Petra | Jul 30 2012, 11:22 AM Post #1 |
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Share your local or international old sayings here. If they are not self explanatory how did they come into being? You can't teach your grandmother to suck eggs. Does anyone know where that one came from? |
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| Mamacat | Aug 2 2012, 11:15 PM Post #11 |
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I sometimes wondered why they did that. |
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| Petra | Aug 4 2012, 11:18 AM Post #12 |
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In the past people believed that bees flew in a straight line to their hive. So if you made a bee line for something you went straight for it. |
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| Mamacat | Aug 4 2012, 02:48 PM Post #13 |
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Are you telling me that bees don't fly in a straight line? |
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| Ann | Aug 4 2012, 03:41 PM Post #14 |
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Do they go zig zag then? |
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| Sue | Aug 4 2012, 07:49 PM Post #15 |
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I think they go round in circles lol |
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| Petra | Aug 6 2012, 02:01 PM Post #16 |
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What gets my goat ... presumably goats are easily wound up. I love goats, wish I had one. |
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| sally | Aug 6 2012, 06:02 PM Post #17 |
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When you where knee high to a grass hopper. Where did that come from anyone know. |
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| Mamacat | Aug 6 2012, 11:29 PM Post #18 |
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I just looked it up, but can't find where it originated from. Just the meaning "short of stature". I wonder which clever person first thought it up. |
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| Petra | Aug 7 2012, 08:47 AM Post #19 |
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They'd have to be very small, if they only reached a grasshoppers knee. |
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