[Misc] Silly Sayings

[Questions]

Zaha was definitely clipped there.

 

[Bakero]

When Americans use the phrase

‘I could care less’

https://youtu.be/om7O0MFkmpw

 

[el punal]

Live on stage - well, whoever it is is hardly likely to be dead.

Pre-order your tickets/club shirt/new phone etc. etc. - how on earth can you pre-order anything? If you want it, you order it or book it. You can make a reservation or make an advance booking or leave a deposit. Those actions indicate that you have ordered the item or service. The expression “pre-order” is meaningless gobbledygook.

 

[Bakero]

Live on stage - well, whoever it is is hardly likely to be dead.

Pre-order your tickets/club shirt/new phone etc. etc. - how on earth can you pre-order anything? If you want it, you order it or book it. You can make a reservation or make an advance booking or leave a deposit. Those actions indicate that you have ordered the item or service. The expression “pre-order” is meaningless gobbledygook.

You can order something that's available now but pre-order something that's not available yet.

 

[el punal]

You can order something that's available now but pre-order something that's not available yet.

Um, you are still ordering it though, aren’t you? Back in the day it used to be called making a reservation, or an advanced booking.

 

[NooBHA]

I hate the terminologies '' It's not rocket science is it '' and '' just run that past me again ''

 

[Postman Pat]

Cheap at half the price as an indication it is cheap at the current price.

Would make more sense if it was cheap at twice the price.

 

[Brovion]

Not sure if this should be in the office bell cheese thread, but we've got a consultant in at work who uses the phrase: "That feature's now dropped".

Apparently that means "That feature has now been released" rather than "that feature has now been removed".

WTF?

 

[beorhthelm]

once you eat it you no longer have it though.

but in what other sense would i want to have a cake?

 

[Mo Gosfield]

" Early doors "......used regularly by footballers but I have never heard it used by anyone outside a footballing context.
Where does it come from?...." We went behind early doors "....." We went behind early on/ early in the game etc " ....I get.....but " early doors?

 

[Icy Gull]

I am reaching out to you

Nope, you have a question for me or something you want to tell me. The last thing I want you to do is reach out for me, that’s just fecking weird. You can almost certainly feck off if you are reaching out too as you won’t get a reply from me.

And no I don’t have a window in my day, only in my house/office (I’m one of the lucky ones who does have windows in his office)

 

[schmunk]

but in what other sense would i want to have a cake?

To be able to eat at a future time, or to share with a friend or trusted relative.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

If we're talking about football guff 'the final third' does my head in (that's probably another one for some people).

In general use, when TV or radio presenters say 'see you tomorrow' at the end of a show seems like wishful thinking, while 'quite unique' or 'very unique' is just lazy.

 

[beorhthelm]

" Early doors "......used regularly by footballers but I have never heard it used by anyone outside a footballing context.
Where does it come from?...." We went behind early doors "....." We went behind early on/ early in the game etc " ....I get.....but " early doors?

apparently its a term from getting in the pub just after opening.

 

[schmunk]

"Top bins" when THERE ARE NO BINS.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

" Early doors "......used regularly by footballers but I have never heard it used by anyone outside a footballing context.
Where does it come from?...." We went behind early doors "....." We went behind early on/ early in the game etc " ....I get.....but " early doors?

Isn't is something to do with matinees at the theatre, or have I just made that up?

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Isn't is something to do with matinees at the theatre, or have I just made that up?

I think I made it up: https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/14/messages/634.html

 

[DFL JCL]

doing something "like it is going out of fashion". WTF

 

[RandyWanger]

have your cake and eat it.

what else is the point of cake?

You can't eat your cake and have it too.

 

[The Clamp]

“One of the first”

You’re either the first or you’re not. In most cases.