The English language

While having one of my usual skype sessions with my mate (Tim), we got into the subject of the expressions used in the English language. So I decided to share some of those expressions with you all on the blog.


1- “You know where you can stick it”; why do we always assume that everyone knows where to stick it? Suppose that you don’t know, suppose you are a new guy !! you’ll have absolutely no idea where to stick it.

2-“Undisputed heavy weight champion”; well if its undisputed, what’s all the fighting about ?

3-“The country went to the dogs”; hmmm how? And what will they do with it? I mean where did all the humans go?

4- “It’s the quite ones you gotta watch”; this is my favorite, you know, when there is a story about a serial killer on TV and they bring on one of those annoying neighbors, and the neighbor always seems to come out with the same answer:

Reporter: What was Hannibal like ?

Neighbor: Well, he was always very quite.

Tim & I seemed to agree that this is a very dangerous assumption, because I assure you while you are at Starbucks watching the quite guy in the corner, it will always be the noisy guys who starts the trouble.

5- “Lock them up and through away the key”; I mean come on !! This is really stupid, where are you going to through the key? Right out the front door of prison? HIS friends will find it ! I mean how far can you through a key ? 10-15m tops!! This is the most stupid idea and needs to be completely rethought. :-)

6- “Takes the cake” as in “man, this guy really takes the cake”, :-S where ? where do you take a cake ? to the cinema

7- “The greatest thing since slice bread”; Good god ! so this is it, huh ? a couple of hundred thousand years ! I wonder what ever happened to the pyramids, Suez Canal, the wall of china I mean even a lava lamp to me is greater than slice bread! What’s the deal? You get a knife and a loaf of bread and then slice the thing !! not exactly rocket science .

8- “Never teach a pig to sing, it will get frustrated and only annoy you”; Now why would you do that ? A pig? Well I guess it’s a good thing that we don’t have ‘em here! Or somebody would’ve tried it !

That's it from me, please guys feel free to add ones that I have missed !!