Hi Rammel
Eat my Hat

Eating one's hat is, of course, something we wouldn't want to attempt in reality and the phrase is only used when the speaker is quite certain of the outcome of some event.

Like
You show a display of confidence in a particular outcome; for example, 'He's always late. If he  gets that train I'll eat my hat’.


Kelly

Hi Rammel
Eat my Hat

Eating one's hat is, of course, something we wouldn't want to attempt in reality and the phrase is only used when the speaker is quite certain of the outcome of some event.

Like
You show a display of confidence in a particular outcome; for example, 'He's always late. If he  gets that train I'll eat my hat’.

Hi Rammel
Fell of the Back of A lorry

It is a euphemism for 'acquired illegally'.

Like
When anyone accounts for their possession of an article by saying it 'fell off the back of a truck' or 'fell off the back of a lorry', they may be assumed not to be its legal owner - that is, it is stolen. 'Lorry' is the British version.

In America in the USA at the saying might be, Fell of the Back of A truck

Kelly

Hi Rammel
Get Down To brass Tacks

To deal with the basic facts  or reality about something

The expression 'getting down to brass tacks' isn't particularly old as phrases go.

I found online  this example.
It first appearance in print in America in 1863, in the Texas newspaper The Tri-Weekly Telegraph:
‘When you come down to 'brass tacks' - if we may be allowed the expression - everybody is governed by selfishness.’

And it is used quite a lot in the United Kingdom.

Kelly

776 - Eat my Hat
777 - Fell of the Back of A lorry / truck



#663 - A miss Is as good as a mile
#7Get Down To brass Tacks

When my dad saw someone driving too fast of eratically he said...

...That's an accident going somewhere to happen.

And if we were a bit grumpy my grandmother asked us if..
we got up on the wrong side of the bed.

When we drank something and choked my grandfather would ask...did it go down your Sunday throat? 

778 - That's an accident going somewhere to happen.


#550 - got up on the wrong side of the bed.

Jane we have a similar saying: 'swallowing the wrong way' when drinking something and choking.

Thanks Rammel

Kelly

Quiet in here, isn't it? Should I yell loud enough to "wake the dead"?

fly by the seat of your pants---

779 - The cheese stands alone.
780 - wake the dead
781 - fly by the seat of your pants

How about...

Say Cheese!  when you want someone to smile.  That's probably been done a long time ago.

I think that saying should read...

LOUD ENOUGH TO wake the dead!

OOOOppsss you woke me up JaneS!

Sorry bubble.  Incidentally, I like your surrounding "bubble".  Is it a bubble in a bubble?

Sure is!  In a soap bubble too

Sorry, but all this talk made me think of spoiling one's fun  or "busting one's bubble "

"SIT TIGHT" Andie.  Someone will be by to rule on that...and on my contribution, too.

Hi Rammel
Beyond The Pale

It means anyone who might be seen as dangerous and fierce.

Originally a 'pale' was an area that had a boundary and was under the authority of an official. And anyone who lived outside the are or pale was seen as I said earlier, dangerous.

Kelly

782 - busting one's bubble
783 - "Sit tight"
784 - Beyond The Pale

#780 - Loud enough to wake the dead!

Thanks Rammel

Kelly

785 - You're skating on thin ice
786 - Don't push your luck.

Thanks for fixing #780

How about...talking through your hat....when you really don't know what your talking about?

Quote from: JaneS on April 09, 2016, 11:07:23 PM
Thanks for fixing #780

How about...talking through your hat....when you really don't know what your talking about?

talking through your hat is #720

Okie dokie, Rammel.  Thanks

Inspired by Don's Music Quiz.

787 - Face the music.

788 - No more monkey shines.

My dad used to say...

It's colder 'n blue blazes!

When we asked him how that was possible he said that if you get a fire so hot it looks blue, if you tried to put your hand near it, the blaze actually felt cold.

789 - It's colder 'n blue blazes!