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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