Cut The Mustard and other strange phrases...game

[Ban Hammer 14,668]

another one for the weather is

"colder than a witches #######"

The version I always heard was "colder than a witches ####### in a brass bra"

in a blizzard at the north pole

[Mags 112]

How about, letting the cat out of the bag?

There are two possibles for this saying.

The first is that it was a common trick a few centuries ago to pretend you were selling a pig in a bag, getting money for it (for food) when in actual fact you had justa cat in there.

Second is to do with the Cat O' Nine Tails, a form of punishment on a ship. If the cat was let out of the bag then you were going to get whipped.

The first is the more likely though.

[Mags 112]

another one for the weather is

"colder than a witches #######"

Is possibly to do with the witchfinder trials in England. A witches ####### was what a witch would use to suckle her familiar - the witchfinders would strip the woman naked and search for any scar, mole or other blemish and declare it was the witches' familiars' suckling spot.

They couldn't win really.

[Brad and Vika 129]

How about;

1) Dumber'n a bag 'o' hammers?

[Sassy1natl 0]

google is your friend

http://www.google.com/search?q=cut+the+mus...lient=firefox-a

I say that all the time... I looooove me some Google.

[Sassy1natl 0]

another one for the weather is

"colder than a witches #######"

We say "colder than a set of witches titties in a brass bra"

**then I continued reading posts and realized someone already said this**

How about hornier than a two-peckered billy goat?

Edited July 9, 2008 by sassy1natl

[one...two...tree 2,762]

How about, letting the cat out of the bag?

There are two possibles for this saying.

The first is that it was a common trick a few centuries ago to pretend you were selling a pig in a bag, getting money for it (for food) when in actual fact you had justa cat in there.

Second is to do with the Cat O' Nine Tails, a form of punishment on a ship. If the cat was let out of the bag then you were going to get whipped.

The first is the more likely though.

Yep - the first one.

[DairyFarmer 1]

Go and boil your head

Meaning

An insult, of the form go and do something bad for you. Other examples are, go and play in the traffic and the more recent, and vehement, eat sxxt and die.

that sounds shakespearian like one of my favourite insults of all time "go shake your ears"

[PlatyPius 5]

Well spank my ####### and call me Charlie....

[pedroh 21]

Go and boil your head

Meaning

An insult, of the form go and do something bad for you. Other examples are, go and play in the traffic and the more recent, and vehement, eat sxxt and die.

that sounds shakespearian like one of my favourite insults of all time "go shake your ears"

rofl talking about shakespearean insults i found this one, it's hilarious

Your virginity, your old virginity is like one of our French wither'd pears: it looks ill, it eats drily

[Ban Hammer 14,668]

How about;

1) Dumber'n a bag 'o' hammers?

or "uglier than a box of frogs"

[almaty 19]

sh!tfaced

hotter than a ####### in ft worth, texas on $2.00 night

[DairyFarmer 1]

Go and boil your head

Meaning

An insult, of the form go and do something bad for you. Other examples are, go and play in the traffic and the more recent, and vehement, eat sxxt and die.

that sounds shakespearian like one of my favourite insults of all time "go shake your ears"

rofl talking about shakespearean insults i found this one, it's hilarious

Your virginity, your old virginity is like one of our French wither'd pears: it looks ill, it eats drily

I love it.

[Bootylicious!! 2]

We say dumber than a box of rocks. Two sandwiches short of a picnic. Two bricks short of a load. There are more but that's all I can think of right now.

[brnidokiegurl 1]

Your name is mud

Meaning

You are unpopular.

Origin

John Wilkes Booth broke his leg while escaping after shooting Abraham Lincoln in 1865. He was given medical help by Dr Samuel Mudd, who didn't then know about the assassination. Mudd was convicted of being Booth's conspirator, although he is widely believed to have been innocent. Actually, whether Mudd was innocent or not is of little consequence in regard to the origin of this phrase. It was in general circulation before Lincoln was assassinated. This comes from John Badcock's (aka 'J. Bee’) Slang - A dictionary of the turf etc., 1823:

"Mud - a stupid twaddling fellow. ‘And his name is mud!’ ejaculated upon the conclusion of a silly oration, or of a leader in the Courier."

The phrase appears to be one of the many that, when a news story arises, match the gist of the story and later become associated with it