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2023, Jul 10
English Language Illogical (Stupid) Expressions
English is not the first language for everyone. But it has many interesting and illogical expressions. This is just a start, we will keep collecting :)
- Get your ducks in a row
- Cold turkey
- Eager beaver
- Hold your horses
- Sacred cow
- How are you?
- Without people, we wouldn't even BE here!
- Oh well, I'm just saying ...
- He's more than fair!
- 42% of people did not fill out the census. (How do they know that?)
- Over easy eggs
- Best thing since sliced bread
- Couch potato
- Go bananas
- Bomb Comb Tomb ...
- Defenestration
- I'll take your word for it
- Fruitcake
- Easy as pie
- A piece of cake
- When pigs fly
- As cool as cucumber
- Kick the bucket
- Hold your horse!
- irregardless
- literally
- actually
- basically
- It's no rocket science!
- personally
- absolutely
- I could care less.
- With all due respect ...
- moment in time
- position (should be "job")
- Keep your shirt on.
- Pick your brain.
- I'll show myself out
- Out of the frying pan and into the fire
- It's like pulling teeth.
- Drop the ball!
- You are barking up the wrong tree ...
- A chip on your shoulder.
- You have a silver spoon in your mouth.
- Let the cat out of the bag
- The best thing since sliced bread
- Beat around the bush
- Not the sharpest tool in the shed!
- A few beers short of a six-pack
- There’s a village missing its idiot
- This elevator doesn't go to the top floor
- absurdly
- inadvisable
- undiscriminating
- unsmart
- illogicality
- goober
- silly goose
- fartlek
- hullaballoo
- bumbershoot
- smicker
- whippersnapper
- abecedarian
- bamboozled
- cutesy-poo
- flabbergast
- schmooze
- smaze
- blubber
- festooned
- fuddy-duddy
- hodgepodge
- ramshackle
- wishy-washy
- brouhaha
- cantankerous
- doozy
- filibuster
- oozy
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