Odd phrases

[Elbonio]

Which property makes something "piping" hot?

and at which point does it cease just being hot and become "piping"


what the hell is piping?



Please provide answers and more examples of odd quirky phrases

[TimmyNoShoes]

According to our local friend google....

This is the definition of piping hot

http://www.cafeshops.com/cp/store.aspx?s=warposter.14259

[Strych]

Piping hot first appeared in Chaucer. It is a reference to hissing of food in a frying pan. (Piping as in playing a pipe)

[Ruth]

I am actually addicted to using the phrase...

"Well, it's 6 and 2 3's really, either way."

I use it at least 70 times a day.

And i don't like using the phrase 'Its 2 birds with one stone' because, to be fair, you shouldn't be hoying stones at birds.

[KingDaveRa]

Never heard 6 and 2 3s before... I use 6 or half dozen of the other.

Odd.

[Elbonio]

Originally posted by KingDaveRa
Never heard 6 and 2 3s before... I use 6 or half dozen of the other.

Odd.

me too?

[Buffy]

on the stucture of piping hot, surely luck warm, is another one?

[dcoder]

Same horse, different jockey :)

[KingDaveRa]

piping hot

Very hot, as in These biscuits are piping hot. This idiom alludes to something so hot that it makes a piping or hissing sound. [Late 1300s]


http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=piping+hot&r=67

[Valane]

Originally posted by Buffy
on the stucture of piping hot, surely luck warm, is another one?

Lukewarm the word and lukewarm the queer character from 'porridge' are some of the worst curses to someone called Luke, like me for example :mad:

oh and that ****ing star wars character.

[KingDaveRa]

I have a mate called Luke and we rarely rile him about such things. The Luke Skywalker thing got old even for us very quickly.

We have far more interesting things to wind eachother up on. We're above names tbh ;)

[TE-Hellfire]

I never use expressions or phrases.

Such use demonstrates one's weakness to formulate one's own expressions via cognitive processes.

For example, instead of saying killing two birds with one stone, one may announce the following:

"By picking up Dave and Wayne at the same place, we would be saving a trip to Wayne's house, thus efficiency is retained within our plan to tomb. Womb. WOMB RAIDER. Please tomb your womb raide. Raid your room wader. Please remove your room raiderox. Please ignore your rooomerox. Please instert your ignorax. PLEASE INSERT YOUR IGNORAX."

Simple.

[KingDaveRa]

But you just said killing two birds with one stone.

So you do use phrases.

[Elbonio]

"I cant for the life of me think why"


quite an odd way of saying "I can't see why"

[TimmyNoShoes]

"Barking up the wrong tree"

[TimmyWithShoes]

Timmy can you stop being a dog and give me my shoes back please?

[Er00]

ffs....stop with the shoes :/

We've established...you...timmywithshoes...HAVE shoes...hence the with..

[Boffykins]

The very witless gemz strikes again with a degree of originality so rarely seen on these boards. (and btw, that degree is precisely one eighth of naff all)

[Semajal]

thats like so true.

Thats one that annoys me. The word 'like' is used to much. But then its so easy to use it and not realise it. Damned americanisms.

[TimmyNoShoes]

Thats a lot of hostility your holding there Boff.
I think you need to count some more bats or something :P

[Boffykins]

I'm allowed to

And just for you, Timmy:
http://www.eco-pros.com/bat.gif
http://grt.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/p1112738reg.jpg
http://dsp.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/p764306reg.jpg
http://www.sportslinkdirect.co.nz/images/products/tat0010.jpg
http://www.abc.net.au/children/show/images/batfink_297.jpg
http://xavnet.chez.tiscali.fr/xavprods/PIX/GALLER2D/BATMAN.GIF

[TimmyNoShoes]

:)

You know what i had TOTALLY forgotten that table tennis existed.
Gonna have to play me some more of that.

[Strych]

So, thats 5 bats and a paddle....

[Killy]

"And now for the paddling of the swollen ass"

For those of you not in the know that WAS a simpsons quote :rolleyes:

[Boffykins]

Shh! Don't tell them about the Stonecutters!

[BullDog]

one that used to confuse me when I was a kid was when I did summat daft and me dad used to say,
'use your loaf'

I had no idea what he meant until later in life when I realised it was rhyming slang - loaf of bread - head.

I love finding out the sourse of popular phrases.

anyone know the origin of a 'a good hiding'?

it's another one that had me puzzled in my youth - didn't know what it meant but it sure didn't sound good!

[Killy]

That's ok, they don't have one of the special rings ;)

[Er00]

good hiding...maybe something to do with whips being made of leather, ie the hide of an animal? that's a total guess thouygh so probaby not right at all!

[TimmyNoShoes]

Maybe because your skin could feel like animal hide after the beatiing?

[Njoroge]

It seems that a lot of people don't realise that the phrase "to have a butchers at something" comes from the rhyming slang butchers hook - look.

Just in case you didn't realise...

[Zakalwe]

I think that "hiding" comes from the older expression "I'll tan your hide" meaning to give someone a beating. This is because part of the tanning process for animal hide involves a long and drawn out beating.

This then diverged into 2 different expressions, one of which was a good "hiding" and the other being a "real tanning" both of which have the same meaning. It's probably a north/south thing.

[KingDaveRa]

Here's one I find incredibly funny:

'At the end of the day'

The sun sets, people go to bed. AND?!

Also, not so much a phrase, but an annoying little thing I drop in is 'I mean'. I throw it in when its out of context. Annoys me. I don't do it so much these days though.

Oh, and how people say 'Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm' in that really drawn out way. Its a good tactic for keeping the conversation in your control whilst you think so somebody else can't jump in and say what you're trying to think of.

[Er00]

never heard the tanning expression...but meh..