Sayings you picked up... and you have no idea where from?

[AstralFire]

"Six times sideways to Chicago." When you Google that, the number one result is me, and the number two result is some random guy on a forum I've never frequented. I could have sworn I saw the phrase in a movie or something, and I don't watch obscure movies...

[Solo Phoenix]

My Dad says "nosey grindstone" a lot, and I thought it was just a saying of the time when he grew up, he didn't have a clue where he'd gotten it from.  Then a while back I decided to re-visit my childhood and watch a well-loved movie, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and lo and behold, I discovered the source.

[Guyr Adamantine]

When confused, cornered or unable to find the right answer, the only frickin word that comes to my mind is... banana.

[AstralFire]

My Dad says "nosey grindstone" a lot, and I thought it was just a saying of the time when he grew up, he didn't have a clue where he'd gotten it from.  Then a while back I decided to re-visit my childhood and watch a well-loved movie, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and lo and behold, I discovered the source.

What the hell does 'nosey grindstone' even mean?

When confused, cornered or unable to find the right answer, the only frickin word that comes to my mind is... banana.

Zuki does that with a -lot- of words. Monkey, fish, some made up sounds...

[Solo Phoenix]

My Dad says "nosey grindstone" a lot, and I thought it was just a saying of the time when he grew up, he didn't have a clue where he'd gotten it from.  Then a while back I decided to re-visit my childhood and watch a well-loved movie, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and lo and behold, I discovered the source.

What the hell does 'nosey grindstone' even mean?

A short way of saying "nose to the grindstone".  Meaning hard work, ie "Come on, nosey grindstone, nosey grindstone" would mean "work harder".

[Guyr Adamantine]

Zuki does that with a -lot- of words. Monkey, fish, some made up sounds...

It aint the first time I hear about that Zuki...

Who is it?

[bhu]

Fuck me Agnes.  As in "Well fuck me Agnes, Bob finally got that roof of his repaired."

[Zuki]

It aint the first time I hear about that Zuki...

Who is it?

[Guyr Adamantine]

Ah, please excuse me. Lets say the lack of background information made me look like a fool. I guess I'll be less stupid when I'm going to sleep tonight.

Now, expressions, expressions...

Oh! I inherited a lot of idiotc quirks from my father, many of which I learned the origin as I grew up and got into in his own interests. For example:

-Quoting the 30's Dracula; *Gets near the window at night and feign hearing wolves* Listen to them, childrens of the night! What music they make...

-Anything can be He-Man's Sword of Power; *Takes the ketchup bottle and raise it toward the sky* By the power of GreySkull!

-Pretending to be a Norse God, especially Thor. (We're big comic book fans); How dare you strike the Son of Odin?


My interesting (Read: Weird) behaviour is made of all this. Constantly. And there's a lot more where they came from.

[AfterCrescent]

HA! I use "By the power of GreySkull" all the time. I actually don't have any sayings (other than random words I make up) that I don't know where they come from. Almost all of mine come from some manner of pop culture.  I love cartoons and classic movies.

[SorO_Lost]

I use "horrible" and "interesting" a lot in real.

Uses
Me: "Mowing my yard when it is 120 outside is so horrible."

Guy: "So I ordered this ZTX and plan on using it later"
Me (not caring or paying attention): "Interesting."

I did pick up a line from a movie (I think) and I do use it sometimes...
[SPOILER]
Shut the hell up before I fuck-start your mouth.
Sometimes I add bitch to the end for added emphasis.

Any clue where I got it?
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[CountArioch]

Home skeleton.

As in, "What's up, home skeleton?"

[Runestar]

"This XXX stinks to high heavens". I have no idea how the 'heavens' part slipped in.

"Not bad for a human". I think I picked this up from some old movie, but something about it just appealed to me and I still can't resist uttering it at times.

"The glass is neither half full or half empty. It is twice as big as it needs to be." I have no idea what that means, but sounded catchy, and a good way of stumping people who ask me this inane question.

[AstralFire]

HA! I use "By the power of GreySkull" all the time. I actually don't have any sayings (other than random words I make up) that I don't know where they come from. Almost all of mine come from some manner of pop culture.  I love cartoons and classic movies.

I also use "By the Power of Greyskull!" all the time, and I didn't even like He-Man until the 2003 reboot.

[altpersona]

while in electronics school, i had an instructor who's saying i have acquired... its a shame thats all he managed to teach us..

1. cant dance and its too late to plow.

2. "Batman? Yes Robin"  this one is used sorta out of the blue.. like a tension breaker..

then when i watched good fellas , forever ago i was grabbed by the idea of so n so two times , cause he said every thing twice..

so , now i say lots of stuff twice twice..

[Josh]

My father has an enormous collection of saying that I had never heard anywhere else.  He grew up in Medford MA and years later I was working with a guy from Medford and he had all the same sayings.


Some of them are now common.  For example my Father referred to crawling kids as "rug rats" a term quite uncommon before the TV show. 

Others include "slicker than snot on a doorknob" and "Micky rig"

Now that I am trying to think of them I can't but my Father has dozens of these phrases.

[tsuyoshikentsu]

There are several phrases I use ALL THE TIME.  Probably the only one I really have no idea hwere it came from was a random interjection of annoyance: "ass monkeys1"

[Caelic]

"This sucks!" "Can you be a little more positive?"  "This POSITIVELY sucks!"

"When you think you've made a good deal with a Deveel, count your gold, then your fingers, then your toes, then your relatives..."

[AstralFire]

"This sucks!" "Can you be a little more positive?"  "This POSITIVELY sucks!"

"When you think you've made a good deal with a Deveel, count your gold, then your fingers, then your toes, then your relatives..."

The former I've heard before. Not sure where.

I rather like the latter.

[Dragon Snack]

Some of them are now common.  For example my Father referred to crawling kids as "rug rats" a term quite uncommon before the TV show.

Somewhere, I have a denim jacket that says "Rug Rat" on the back.  I made it myself when I was younger, WAY before the TV show...

It was what my grandfather called all kids, not just the crawlers.