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Joke with idiom



maryse pey�
France

Wonderful Cindy !
 
Here are some more for Lynne and all of you dear fellows and let �s compare  as Cindy has done yet !
 
"to be on one �s 31" means "to be very elegant"
"to be the fly of the wagon" means "to be a very boring and annoying person wanting to deal with everything"
"to have a tooth against someone" means "not to like someone"
"to be a billiards ball" means "to be bald"
"to be deaf as a jar" means "able to hear nothing"
-to have a spider on the ceiling" = "to have bats in the belfry"
"to laugh like a whale" = "to laugh one �s head off"
"to be stamped" = "to be cracked"
"to be a wordsmill" = "to be a chatterbox"
 
And there are many others !
 
I �ll try to make a longer list to put on the forum just for fun !

6 Dec 2013     



jannabanna
France

Some more from France:

to have a cat in the throat = to have a frog in the throat
when hens have teeth = when pigs fly 

I found some more here:


Janet

7 Dec 2013     

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