What is your favorite saying?

[karadinart]

One that has always been apt to me is 'that's the pot calling the kettle black.'

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[sildil]

'She's all fur coat and no knickers'

I love this expression, my gran used to use it about someone...well, it takes little imagination to work out what kind of person!

[gloria-scott.livejournal.com]

"It's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick."

[ashura-oh.livejournal.com]

I saw something nasty in the woodshed.
It's from a movie, "Cold Comfort Farm", but it's also a great way to express that someone is playing the drama queen, and it's a great movie, haha. I use it a lot.

I also like "Be the kind of woman that, when your feet hit the floor each morning, the devil says 'Oh crap! She's up!'." and "I've already forgotten more than you ever learnt", no idea where it's from, followed by "Oh I'm okay, only that slip of paper at my toe is a bit unnerving" and "Why does everybody want to sleep with me when I'm just not tired?". All of these are hopefully soon going to be "canon", haha.

Hm, somehow I just can't think of traditional sayings now, though I know I use a lot... my body and mind are in an unusually bad state today, sorry. ^^" Will come back when I can think of something.

[rii-no-ame.livejournal.com]

"The glass is already broken."

It's a phrase my boy uses a lot and I've adopted it, and means, essentially, acknowledging the impermanence of things and to be ready for the unexpected when it (always) comes so that when it does, it doesn't shatter you. The idea is that when you appreciate the temporal nature of things, you'll appreciate them even more dearly.

[hideincarnate.livejournal.com]

Favorite saying? Hmmm...

Well, I know I have things I say a lot...as a teacher I often have to say "Zip your lips" "Sit your butt down" "Hands at your side unless you're making the quiet sign."

I also have a tendency to call all male students "sir" and all the female students "sweetie" or "sweetheart." And some of them ain't sweet! But it's my default when I don't know their names. I tend to know the names of all the really good kids and all the really bad kids by the end of a day though.

[ardwynna-m.livejournal.com]

"What doesn't kill you is a learning experience."
I know it's usually 'makes you stronger' but I'm on the fence about that.

[archea2.livejournal.com]

"It's raining cats and dogs."

Pretty banal but to a classroom of French teenagers it sounded extremely odd and left us with a hilarious vision of pets falling to the ground head first.

[antesqueluz.livejournal.com]

It's a mighty thin board that ain't got two sides.

[kikainausagi.livejournal.com]

"Keep flying the airplane."

My dad always used to say that. I think it was something his flight instructor told him.

[mirien.livejournal.com]

Mad as a box of frogs.

Nope, I have no idea either!

[eclatc4t.livejournal.com]

"if you don't change your direction, you will end up where you are headed."

gets lots of use.

[margi-lynn.livejournal.com]

ha! That's always been mine (though I use it often enough I've shortened it to 'pot calling kettle').

'Kiss my grits' is a good one too ;)

[stupid-drawings.livejournal.com]

My friend Kimba's mom always messes up sayings, and I think my favorite one of all time was one she said: "bite the dog that bit you" which makes me giggle. I can't remember any of her others...
There was also "snap a rib" instead of "break a leg" from someone not native to English.

[mrs-tilford.livejournal.com]

From my mom when faced with something she really didn't want to do: "Oh, let's not and say we did." Mom's passed on, so I guess it's my saying, now, and the older I get, the more I use it.