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    ^ good one...

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    Quote Originally Posted by rebbu View Post
    It's a very subjective picture.
    He's wearing torn pants & nice expensive looking jacket. Have a look at his ear, it looks like a worm crawling out. On the left hand side it looks like a nut shell split in two.
    Put a bug in someone's ear

    When first used in English, the term put a flea in someone's ear was used to mean a feeling of spiritual emotion. The idiom evolved into the current meaning of a strong reprimand. To put a bug in someone's ear means to give him a suggestion or a hint, to impart some information that will help decide a course of action.

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    To keep one's cards close to one's chest.

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    His trousers look torn to shreds...

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    Quote Originally Posted by lom View Post
    Originally Posted by Troy
    Pull your socks up
    cold feet ?

    Apprehension or doubt strong enough to prevent a planned course of action. A loss or lack of courage or confidence; an onset of uncertainty or fear. To “have cold feet” is to be too fearful to undertake or complete an action. A wave of timidity or fearfulness.
    Cold feet - in German "kalte Füsse" means got kicked off by his GF

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    As snug as a bug in a rug.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rebbu View Post
    Rags to riches
    Riches to rags

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    as dry as a dead dingoes donger.

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    Cock and bull story.

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    Raise an eyebrow.


    * In the picture, the man's left eyebrow is significantly higher than his right eyebrow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Klondyke View Post
    Cold feet - in German "kalte Füsse" means got kicked off by his GF
    Except it doesn't. it means the same as in English - to become insecure about something and then not do it.

    Maybe in your region, if you're German



    Quote Originally Posted by Neverna View Post
    Raise an eyebrow.


    * In the picture, the man's left eyebrow is significantly higher than his right eyebrow.
    Hadn't noticed that either . . . well done

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    Hit the nail on the head

    No one knows the exact origin of this phrase. What is known is that it is extremely old. It appears in The Book of Margery Kempe, circa 1438. This was an account of the life of religious visionary Margery Kempe and is considered to be the earliest surviving autobiography written in English:
    "Yyf I here any mor thes materys rehersyd, I xal so smytyn ye nayl on ye hed that it schal schamyn alle hyr mayntenowrys."
    In modernised English, that reads as:
    "If I hear any more these matters repeated, I shall so smite the nail on the head that it shall shame all her supporters."

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    Ah, I thought that was a screw loose . . .

    So, what's the coloured sock on one leg?

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    It's definitely a screw and not a nail.

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    Enough room to swing a cat..

    Or; Catch a cat by the tail.

    Or both?

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    Ah, I thought that was a screw loose . . .

    So, what's the coloured sock on one leg?
    Someone previously posted 'pull your socks up'.

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    Cat got your tongue...

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    Writing the short versions due to laziness.

    1. tough nut
    2. screw loose.
    3. piece of cake.
    4. ace up sleeve.
    5. cards close to chest.
    6. big cheese
    7. red herring
    8. spill the beans
    9. silver platter
    10. time flies
    11. cat got your tongue
    12. catch a cat by the tail
    13. cold feet
    14. pull up your socks
    15. heart on one's sleeve
    16. raise an eyebrow
    17. tie the know
    18. kick the bucket
    19. torn to shreds
    20. eggs in one basket
    21. shadow of one's former self.
    22. born with a silver spoon.
    23. birdbrain?
    24. Ear worm?
    25. shoe on the other foot
    26. a stitch in time.



    27. Fried egg. (Thai slang for flat boobies)


    Maybe the last one isn't correct. Plus another few.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gallowspole View Post
    Someone previously posted 'pull your socks up'.
    Right . . . losing track. It seems there are more than 27, doesn't it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Luigi View Post
    27. Fried egg. (Thai slang for flat boobies)
    HaHa ... apparently my SiL has 'raisins'.

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    For #27 ... given that the best shoe, the best foot is leading the pace

    #27 ... Best Foot Forward?

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    ^
    nice

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    Never herd of "Catch a cat by his tail".

    I have heard of "A shadow of his former self" which I think is one.....

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    ^^^ you forgot cherry on top...

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    There is also "Cherry on the cake" in the bottom right corner.

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    Stocking the middle with you ?



    Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

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