Figure of Speech

[masona]

Right, get your thinking cap on, I got this idea from WoodYouLike regarding the goalpost topic.

How many figure of speech are there

I'll start one,

Deafer than the door post. (That's me )

 

[Brightness]

As thick as sh_t!

As daft as a brush.

As dark as night.

 

[Richardp]

as thick as a short plank.

 

[vokera80e]

a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.....WHAT

 

[Richardp]

out of the frying pan and into the micro wave.

 

[johnny_t]

two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.

 

[masona]

Once in the blue moon

Why the blue moon, anybody?

 

[kevplumb]

as thick as a short plank.

as thick as a dockers sandwich

 

[vokera80e]

i'l fix it tomorrow......

 

[Richardp]

well! how often do you get a blue moon?

 

[vokera80e]

i'l go to the bottom of our stairs.....WHY

 

[johnny_t]

A blue moon is when you get a full moon twice in a given month and it happens...erm....you know....not very often.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

IIRC, I heard once that "blue moon" came from a widely used farmer's almanac in the USA in the 19th C. With no radios, digital watches, GPS, internet etc, farmers needed a way to keep track of the date, so as a regular check they indicated on a calendar when full moons would be, and if there was a second one in the same month, they coloured it blue.

Or that might all be b******s.

 

[vokera80e]

Red Sky at Night........Shepard's Hut on Fire....

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Money for old rope

Cash on the nail

Being roped in to doing something

A square meal

Shake a leg