Favourite new expressions.......

[Pucker]

You know the expression, fight fire with fire.
The first time I heard that I thought the person who said it was saying it wrong because you fight fire with water or baking soda. Even though the person who said it, said it right, it still doesn't make sense to me.
Have you ever seen the fire department take a fire to a fire to put it out? What am I missing here?
Are they talking about gun fire? If they are they should say so and quit messing with my understanding of how things work.

Ah ... the wonderful English language.

You fight enemy fire by firing back.

In this sense, Danie has it exactly correct.

 

[Pucker]

It occurs to me that many of the expressions we're seeing here are not especially "new."

I ran across one the other day that I find a little annoying and fits this medium fairly well.

Have you heard, "Said nobody, ever"?

For instance:

I like Brussels Sprouts ... said nobody, ever.

I am not generally averse to the smart aleck retort, but I don't like this one. It lacks flair. Matter of taste, I suppose.


And while we're on the subject ... this isn't really an expression, but one time my brother woke up the morning (late in the morning) after a particularly raucous debauch, and he came out into the kitchen for coffee or juice or something. He did not look good and I suspect he felt worse.

This was confirmed when he looked up at me and said, "Puck ... I don't know if I feel like a ham sandwich or a flight of stairs."

I miss that guy.

 

[Patricia A]

Sad for me that I don't know very many new expressions I like, as a matter of fact the only one that comes to mind is, "the struggle is real."

 

[blunthead]

"My bad" is a personal pet peeve of mine, and I don't appreciate that no one can go all the way with "invitation" anymore but must stop at "invite".

 

[Mr Nobody]

I appear to have picked up "Well I'll be dipped in sh!t" from someplace. Can't think where...

 

[blunthead]

I appear to have picked up "Well I'll be dipped in sh!t" from someplace. Can't think where...

Have you ever lived on a farm? Or been through a fraternity initiation? Or been to a political convention?

 

[Mr Nobody]

Have you ever lived on a farm? Or been through a fraternity initiation? Or been to a political convention?

No. No. And no.
But I was living on the wrong side of the Watford Gap during the '80s, when industry in the Midlands and North was allowed to basically die. And I'm still in Scameron's Britain, still in the Midlands where industry was replaced by financial services. Guess how that's been post-2008?
So today I realized I've not just been dipped in sh!t, I've been positively marinated.
I could move, but I can't afford the sh!t down south (and it is still sh!t, when all's said and done).

 

[blunthead]

No. No. And no.
But I was living on the wrong side of the Watford Gap during the '80s, when industry in the Midlands and North was allowed to basically die. And I'm still in Scameron's Britain, still in the Midlands where industry was replaced by financial services. Guess how that's been post-2008?
So today I realized I've not just been dipped in sh!t, I've been positively marinated.
I could move, but I can't afford the sh!t down south (and it is still sh!t, when all's said and done).

(((((Mr Nobody)))))

 

[Mr Nobody]

(((((Mr Nobody)))))

It's OK, really. Just make sure to stay upwind.

 

[blunthead]

It's OK, really. Just make sure to stay upwind.

If I can stay upwind of myself then I can stay upwind of anyone.

 

[Grandpa]

"My bad" is a personal pet peeve of mine, and I don't appreciate that no one can go all the way with "invitation" anymore but must stop at "invite".

I first heard it on the soccer field after someone screwed up - missed pass, ball went out off of them, some kind of flub, and they'd yell, "My bad!" At first it was offputting, but it caught on. "My bad play!" or "My fault!" just didn't have the same ring for the charged moment.

 

[blunthead]

I first heard it on the soccer field after someone screwed up - missed pass, ball went out off of them, some kind of flub, and they'd yell, "My bad!" At first it was offputting, but it caught on. "My bad play!" or "My fault!" just didn't have the same ring for the charged moment.

BS. "My bad" and all the other encouragement to be crude and lazy, and especially special about communication is a sign of the times. It's the new obscene.

 

[Mr Nobody]

I first heard it on the soccer field after someone screwed up - missed pass, ball went out off of them, some kind of flub, and they'd yell, "My bad!" At first it was offputting, but it caught on. "My bad play!" or "My fault!" just didn't have the same ring for the charged moment.

Ah, the differences. Here, someone screws up and they don't generally get a chance to say anything. There's usually a cry of something slightly to very obscene and a one- or two-finger salute (and an invitation to go away in a spasmodic fashion) by way of response.