Phrases and terms that don't seem to make sense

[Gertie]

So, today I "threw out" my back. We all know what that means, but on the surface it seems an odd choice of words, doesn't it?

[Cheri]

We got to get this 'off the ground' meaning something needs to get started but why off the ground?

[Phil]

"Full of piss and vinegar."

[~Geektastic~]

Phil wrote: ""Full of piss and vinegar.""

Similarly: "Full of beans."

[Jammies]

Cheri wrote: "We got to get this 'off the ground' meaning something needs to get started but why off the ground?"

From rocket launches, maybe?

[David]

The one that gets me every time is "think outside the box". It doesn't really mean anything but somehow became a 90's buzzword like catch phrase.

Also, buzzword bothers me a little.

[Scout]

"Make up." This makes no literal sense, yet it has several meanings. You can make up your face, make up your bed, make up with a friend.

[Sally, la reina]

Or make out.

[evie]

During my childhood if Mum was annoyed with something she'd say
"that really gets on my goat"

[janine]

Poor goat.

[Félix]

[janine]

Goat walking on toe floss.

[Félix]

That's it.

[evie]

stuff between the toes ... toe jam

[Rachel]

Could someone please explain the phrase "can't have your pie and eat it too"?

It makes no sense at all. If I have pie, I'm jolly well not going to just stare at it, am I? Unless of course there's lamb in it.

[Phil]

evie wrote: "During my childhood if Mum was annoyed with something she'd say
"that really gets on my goat""

I've always heard, "gets my goat." Yours is the first I've heard of anything being on the goat.

[Félix]

Rachel wrote: "Could someone please explain the phrase "can't have your pie and eat it too"?"

I've always heard this as "cake." But aside from that, it means that you can't still have it around if you go ahead and eat it. Like, you can't "have" the $50 if you spend it on dinner in a restaurant.

[Félix]

Exactly.

[evie]

Phil wrote: "evie wrote: "During my childhood if Mum was annoyed with something she'd say
"that really gets on my goat""

I've always heard, "gets my goat." Yours is the first I've heard of anything being on t..."

oh maybe that's it ... back to my shell

[Gertie]

Gets on my goat is much funnier though. :-)

[janine]

evie wrote: "oh maybe that's it ... back to my shell "

We like you better out of your shell, evie. In fact, people with shells freak me out.

[Jim]

Not a big Humpty Dumpty fan J9?

[Félix]

Maybe she doesn't like hard boiled people.

[janine]

Jim wrote: "Not a big Humpty Dumpty fan J9?"

Indifferent.

[Phil]

Félix wrote: "Maybe she doesn't like hard boiled people."

Humpty's problems started the day he got fried.

[evie]

The trouble with Humpty was he had a soft centre but he wasn't a bad egg

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

janine wrote: "evie wrote: "oh maybe that's it ... back to my shell "

We like you better out of your shell, evie. In fact, people with shells freak me out."

Sorry.

[Phil]

Lobstergirl wrote: "janine wrote: "evie wrote: "oh maybe that's it ... back to my shell "

We like you better out of your shell, evie. In fact, people with shells freak me out."

Sorry."

You're okay, LG. Yours is an exoskeleton, not really a shell.

[janine]

What Phil said.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Headline on the front page of Yahoo news today:

Survery: And the No. 1 party school in America is....

Evidently that employee went to the No. 1 party school in America....because they sure dint learn anythang.

[[deleted user]]

If someone annoys my aunt; she says they make her ass itch...wha?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

"Be well." I hate it when people say this. You're commanding someone to be well? What if they don't have total control over their wellbeing? Maybe they have a cancerous tumor.

[Susan]

FeLarryix used it earlier today.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

It reeks of New Age bullshit.

[Susan]

How about, "Be swell"?

[Félix]

New Age bullshit as opposed to Old Age bullshit?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

No. How about we stop starting sentences with "Be."

[Susan]

Because?

[Félix]

Who be you to set these standards?

[Phil]

Be excellent to each other.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

No.

[Susan]

But...

[Félix]

Be a do-bee.

[Susan]

Be happy.

[Félix]

Be deviled.

[Susan]

Begrudge.

[Susan]

Behave.

[Susan]

My old manager's kid use to say, "I can't want to do it!"

[Félix]

BunWat wrote: "Bebop a rebop."

Rhubarb pie.

[Susan]

You are just hungry.