Thread: Please, Write here idioms and so on...

Originally Posted by Barmaley

Originally Posted by fortheether

I assure you that this parkway:

http://gsp.hokietravelers.com/My_Homepa ... Page1.html

Has nothing to do with any national parks or any other parks. Unless you consider a tool booth to be a park. It does have grass and trees a lot of the way though. Also I fail to see many parts that are scenic.

This one:

http://www.nycroads.com/roads/henry-hudson/

has parts in downtown Manhattan where I think trees/grass are against the law.

Scott

Actually now I understand. Any part of New Jersey that's not toxic-sludge infested is considered to be a "natural place."

Now you got it!


Say - are there any toll booths in Russia?

don't cry over spilt milk
that's water under the bridge
- what's past is past

so and so won't do this for "all the tea in China"
- means that person's really not gonna do it

such and such is an "albatross around your neck"
- something that's dragging you down

always a bridesmaid, never a bride
close but no cigar
- always coming close but not quite getting there

any tom, dick, and harry
- any regular guy

she's the "apple of my eye"
- she's very special

you're "beating a dead horse"
- it's over, you've made your point, now shut up

she came to the tennis court in her "birthday suit" lol
- means she's naked



btw - my two cents (that's another idiom, means my little contribution to the discussion) parkways are scenic driveways through a park, but parkways can also mean pretty much a highway without any reference to any nearby parks.

I heard a scottish guy yesterday talking about a race car driver that wasn't very good, he said "he couldn't drive a nail into wood". Couple that with the amusing way scottish people talk and I thought it was hillarious.

Close enough only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.


Scott

Originally Posted by tdk2fe

Challenger: Sure about what? They aren't all necessarily idioms, but Chuvak wanted idioms and other hard-to-understand phrases.

tdk

Are you sure that they're in common use?