Sorry, felt the need to clarify this. The phrase is "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush", and the idea is if you are holding a bird in the hand, you have your dinner. You can take that one bird, and be well fed. If you let it go to pursue two birds you?ve spied in a bush, you may catch neither, and wind up hungry for the night.DarkJester said:"One in the hand is worth two in the bush."
I'm guessing it refers to something you have having more worth or meaning than something you just want... but depending on who you are and what context, this could be quite dirty. And is definitely nonsensical when taken literally.
Where this originates it ACTUALLY makes sense. When people had Thatched roofs and it was pouring really hard animals like dogs and cats would climb into the thatching to escape the rain and would then fall into the house. Hence the term It is raining cats and dogs.The87Italians said:It's raining cats and dogs; wouldn't there just be animal corpses all over the place? It'd cause quite the mess.
I've never heard that. When would people ever use that outside the context of the obvious?AugustFall said:"I want him inside me."
Always thought that was weird out of context.
That one may depend on who's listening, but explain to me when this ever works out: fuck me sideways!Cheery Lunatic said:"FUCK! ME!" when something bad happens.
Well, depends on who's listening.![]()
This (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/raining%20cats%20and%20dogs.html) says otherwise. We can never be sure, but as they pointed out, "In order to believe this tale we would have to accept that dogs lived in thatched roofs, which, of course, they didn't. Even accepting that bizarre idea, for dogs to have slipped off when it rained they would have needed to be sitting on the outside of the thatch - hardly the place an animal would head for as shelter in bad weather."Krion_Vark said:Where this originates it ACTUALLY makes sense. When people had Thatched roofs and it was pouring really hard animals like dogs and cats would climb into the thatching to escape the rain and would then fall into the house. Hence the term It is raining cats and dogs.