Hey Pandas, What’s An Uncommon Phrase That You Use? (Closed)

Building castles in the sky. It's what I use to describe people making grandiose, unrealistic plans they will never pursue..

Saying that someone is "a few fries short of a Happy Meal".

Not me but my dad. He likes to say "Be careful out there among the English". I googled it once. It's from a movie called "Witness". I never watched it.

"Where is it?" "Up your bum, second shelf to your right."

My fresh-off-the-boat Irish grandparents moved to coal mining country and their cultures collided into a myriad of these. In my family, we do not have ducks or a row. We have squirrels on a fence, and I am always making sure my squirrels on a fence. When a task is difficult, we say. "I might as well be herding wildcats with a garden hose."

You need Viagra eyedrops... so you can have a good hard look at yourself.

No s**t Sherlock,

I was raised in WA state but live in CA, where two of my kids were born. When they would say something "wasn't fair", I would always say, "The fair is in Puyallup". Which is where one of the biggest state fairs in the world is held. On our way through the Seattle area one year, there was a billboard advertising it and my kids were AMAZED to see I had been telling them the truth they're entire lives!

Ha! I like to use one of my dad's golden lines when debating with my kids: I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.

"Roly poly"-I saw one on a call with my friend and said so, and he just went "excuse me you saw a what now-"

is it not common outside of the South?

______________ isn't/aren't the brightest cookie in the toolbox.

A combination of brightest crayon in the box, smart cookie, and sharpest tool in the toolbox.

Sexier than boots on a chicken.

When you're working on something and it comes out better than you thought it would, just take a step back and say 'Damn, that's sexier than boots on a chicken'

"Not my monkey, not my circus". It means not my business, indicates that one is not responsible for controlling or changing a volatile or delicate situation

“Oh well that’s nice” in response to anything violent or disgusting and “that’s pleasant” in response to anything at all and like a bunch of others too haha

Son of a biscuit. Depending on where I am and the company around me. Sometimes that doesn't even matter. Biscuit can be substituted for "jackal" at times as well.

Not exactly a phrase but I always call the bathroom/restroom/toilet a “washroom”. Where I live I have never heard anyone refer to it using that word, so I guess I’m just the odd one out!

A work in progmess.

I have tons of these. I was highly offended the other day however because I saw someone else use one of mine in print. Anyway, so here's a cute one. Randelas. Meaning our currency notes. Because our currency is Rand and the notes have Mandela on them.

Sometimes instead of cursing I say: "Dill, dill, clover". It's a reminescence of an RPG session where I and my crew wondered how do elves curse and decided that they do so by saying random names of plants.

When we were younger, my brother and I used to come up with comedic non-swear swears. My favorites were probably "Sorghum flatterbatter!" and "Pillsbury breadbox!"