Idioms - what is your favourite and why?

Interesting to hear what everyones favourite saying are, either picked up through family, friends or the Net.
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Where there's muck there's brass

What you give out you get back Tenfold

If you don't mind, state the country you are in, as there are such a wide range of meanings to idioms around the world.
Good Fun though

 

What goes around, comes around

Sunny England!

 

Some days, Chicken........Some days, Feathers.


Texas

 

All your base are belong to us
Break a leg
Son of a gun
I hear it on the grapevine

 

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognise a mistake when you make it again.

Scotland

 

{Back in a day } { He who hesitates is lost } {CANADA}

 

Nothing surprises me but a free case of beer.

Mens room wall at The Brass Rail. Toronto, Ontario.

 

Back in the day

Sunny ENGLAND

 

AH, We can only hope, huh?

 

Here are some of my favourites I regularly use:

• Suck it and see (when faced with a bitter dilemma and not sure of outcome)
  
  
• Six of one and half a dozen of the other (when there is no difference)
  
  
• Jump in boots and all (when trying to resolve an emergency and time is of the essence)
  
  
• Time will tell (sometimes you have no choice but to wait)
  
  
• Time waits for no one (don't procastinate)
  
  
• Today is the first day of the rest of your life (everyday is a fresh start)
  
  
• First in, best dressed (don’t hang around waiting for something to happen, or you'll miss out on first choice)
  
  
• Thoughts becomes things…choose a good one (thoughts become actions which will materialise into the things you initially thought of)
  
  
• Like water off a duck’s back (don’t let others’ thoughts rule your life)
  
  
• We make our own realities, our own fate and our own luck (maintain your own power, don't let others take that power away from you)
  
  
• Hit the ground running (when tackling something new and need to keep up)
  
  
• When you jump off a bridge, build your wings on the way down (sometimes you need to take a risk, but it doesn't mean you stop thinking of what to do)
  
  
• On a wing and a prayer (sometimes you just have to think on your feet without preparation)
  
  
• Wing it (when not sure of your ground, try it anyway)
  
  
• The expert of your life is you (you have your own will, exercise it)

 

If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
Now if I could only follow my own advice!

 

If it won't work, use force.

if it still doesn't work, use more force.

Still not working? Get a hammer!


Picked up from daddy!

 

People in glass houses should not throw stones (who would want to live in a glass house other than contestants on big brother)

Forgive and forget

Let sleeping dogs lie (especially big ones)

Never look a gift horse in the mouth

Never give a sucker an even break

 

People in glass houses should not throw stones (who would want to live in a glass house other than contestants on big brother)

Forgive and forget

Let sleeping dogs lie (especially big ones)

Never look a gift horse in the mouth

Never give a sucker an even break

 

Classic LOL

 

If it is stuck, force it
If it breaks it needed fixing anyway

If you lay down with dogs
You'll get up with fleas

 

If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed." (Curly Howard)

The morbid the merrier. (Larry Fine)

Rome wasn't built in a day, neither was Syracuse. (Shemp Howard)

 

Why don't you get a toupee with some brains in it. (Moe Howard)

 

Too many cheifs and not enough Indians. (one of my favorites at work)

Too many cooks spoil the soup.

Do not put all your eggs in one basket.

Measure twice cut once. (from my dad)

 

Worthless as teats on a boar

Not worth a tinker's damn

Lack of planning on your part does not make an emergency on my part

Linux: User unfriendly, techie tolerant

I get around to that when people ice skate in hell...

How about you go pound sand up your *** while I think about what you requested?

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right

 

Stupid is as stupid does

life was like a box a chocolates, never know what you're gonna get

shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it


Sometimes, I guess there's just not enough rocks

 

You certainly got you point across

 

The bigger they are, the harder they fall

Those who think and run away, live to fight another day


Both from my late Grandma!
Sunny England

 

When in doubt, grenade it out. (that works in so many cases)

 

"He who smelt it, dealt it!" - meaning passing wind

 

You can wish in one hand and crap in the other see which gets filled first

Burgess Meredith in Grumpier old men "Mickey from Rocky"

 

my dad would always say "you keep that wishing crap up and you will end up with a smelly hand"

 

Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is an on-coming train.
Bazza (OZ),

 

Reading the forums today, and this one sprung to mind....those in the north of England should understand.....

Nowt as queer as folk

 

roflmao

Made me think of Yorkshire:-

Yorkshire born,
Yorkshire bred,
Strong in th`arm,
Thick in th`ed!

No offence meant if your from Yorkshire as im sure youve all heard it before!

 

"If you don't have the time to do it right the first time, when are you going to have the time to do it over?"

-- Retired Mississippi Telephone Man

 

I learned that in the wood shops I worked in. We always measured from the 1" mark on a tape measure to be sure it was accurate and on Monday's my first cut was always an inch short. DOH!!!

 

In a water shortage-

If its brown flush it down,if its yellow let it mellow

 

You made me think of this now Rikky...

"dont eat yellow snow"

 

Might of guessed you would come up with that

On that note: Silent and violent and Loud and proud!! LOL

 

Funny that...we used to say that in an oooo aaarrrrr accent about the people from Manchester

 

Isn't that a pudding?LOL

 

People from Yorkshire wished they lived in Manchester!

This clip says it all, UK comedy classic:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

Although Yorkshire Tea is the nicest IMO, and I have got a few freinds up in th`ills!

 

If in doubt, give it a clout.

Never let your feet run faster than your shoes.

Never marry for money. You can borrow it cheaper.

The first one I remember from school in Edinburgh.

 

Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades (and nuclear weapons).

 

LoL! A classic, indeed! LOL


Some assorted quotage:-

"Never hit a man while he is down. He may get up."
"The wishbone will never replace the backbone."
"Work - the curse of the drinking class."
"To kill time, try working it to death."
"Keep smilin', and make everyone wonder what you've been up to."
"If you're so smart, why aint you rich?"
"Don't be a wage slave. Get your wife a job."
"THIMK"
"Stop talking while I'm interrupting."
"I like my job. It's the work I hate."
"There's one thing money can't buy - poverty."

Some quotes were from my father. Others, I just picked up, or made up along the school of life.

 

In the famous words of the great Homer Simpson:
"Trying is the first step toward failure.
It can be so true, and I know everyone have felt like this is the ONLY truth at some point in their lives.

 

some of the funniest and most original are on Whirlpool Forums. seems to be mostly young guys and they are very clever.

 

Great sketch wayne i have not seen that in 20 years ( you were lucky I've not seen it in 25)
being an ex Mancunian i share your sense of humor.

never let your mouth write a cheque you body can't cash

 

my grandmother always says a weird one---well I'll just tell her how the cow ate the cabbage. ever tim ei hear it im like huh?

 

If at first you don't succeed, erase any evidence that you ever even tried . . .

 

Pull your socks up - put more effort into a task

 

it's not a "bug", it's an "undocumented feature"