"Wait...that phrase didn't make any sense!"

[nin_ninja]

DESU DESU DESU!

 

[Ironic Pirate]

"a bird in the hand"

Um...what?!

They forgot the part "is worth two in the bush". It means if you have something, it's worth more than something you don't have.

EG,OM

 

[bulbasaur765]

Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.

Not much to rely on, huh?

 

[Deviltongue]

Mind your p's and q's i dislike both of these letters so why should i mind them

Back when they used old printing presses(The ones where they had to switch the letters by hand), people would sometimes get the lower case p's and q's mixed up since all the letters were backwards. That's where the phrase came from. YOU JUST GOT LEARNED!!!

 

[eggy32]

"a bird in the hand"

Um...what?!

They forgot the part "is worth two in the bush". It means if you have something, it's worth more than something you don't have.

EG,OM

I feel a bit like a pervert for thinking of sexual innuendo when I heard that phrase. Strange, I've heard it before but never thought of it sexually.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

"the ogre's butt" i have no idea what the hell that means.

 

[AfroTree]

I've heard "The Bees Knees" said quite often.

Oh, it rhymes; How creative! Too bad it makes no sense. And it's part of a widely hated bug. Why is it a compliment?

EDIT: ninja'd by a yellow fucking cell phone.

"the bee's knees"

Wait... What?

"the cats tuxedo"

What the fuck does that even mean???

This is the first time I've heard this but a cat would look damn good in a tux.

Two phrases that make no sense to me are "The bees knees." (Do bees even have knees? And if they do, what's so good about them?) and "The dog's bollocks." Seriously, why would you use that second one in particular to describe something good? It's just an unpleasant image.

"The Bees Knees"

Bees "knees" contain honey

so..
The Bees Knees = awesome =honey?

Also

"Apples and Pears"

or

"The Dog And Bone"

WTF!?

 

[Krion_Vark]

"a bird in the hand"

Um...what?!

Maybe you should stop Cos=playing as a Bolrog when you break into a house to steal stuff.

OT= The bees knees i have no idea what the hell thats supposed to mean.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

The Cat's Pajamas

 

[USSR]

"the bee's knees"

Wait... What?

A bee's "corbiculae", or pollen-baskets, are located on its
tibiae (midsegments of its legs). The phrase "the bee's knees",
meaning "the height of excellence", became popular in the U.S. in
the 1920s.

I guess it has something to do with excellent business.

..No, it is not common sense, nor would it really make any sense at all without research.
Well thank god for Google.

 

[eggy32]

I've heard "The Bees Knees" said quite often.

*snip*

"The Bees Knees"

Bees "knees" contain honey

so..
The Bees Knees = awesome =honey?

Also

"Apples and Pears"

or

"The Dog And Bone"

WTF!?

I thought bees knees only contained pollen.
And what is the context of these other phrases?

 

[JIst00]

"Its raining cats and dogs."

???????????????????????????

 

[eggy32]

The Cat's Pajamas

Cats would look so good in pajamas and therefore you would want those pajamas to look as good as the cat. Just like the tuxedo.

 

[JIst00]

And what is the context of these other phrases?

Cockney Rhyming Slang

Dog and Bone = Phone
Apple and Pears = Stairs

Also:
Britney Spears = Beers
Bread Knife = Wife

Edit: check this out for more if ur interested =P www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/

 

[eggy32]

And what is the context of these other phrases?

Cockney Rhyming Slang

Dog and Bone = Phone
Apple and Pears = Stairs

Also:
Britney Spears = Beers
Bread Knife = Wife[/quote]
I thought it was cockney rhyming slang but i wasn't sure.You also forgot Frog and Toad = Road

 

[AfroTree]

I've heard "The Bees Knees" said quite often.

*snip*

"The Bees Knees"

Bees "knees" contain honey

so..
The Bees Knees = awesome =honey?

Also

"Apples and Pears"

or

"The Dog And Bone"

WTF!?

I thought bees knees only contained pollen.
And what is the context of these other phrases?

You might be right..I didn't pay attention in that particular Class at that time..

and

Apples and pears = stairs (wtf?)

and The Dog And Bone = Phone... wagain wtf?

 

[TheStickman]

I wouldn't really say "phrase," but same difference doesn't seem to make very much sense.

 

[eggy32]

*snip*

Basically the cockneys in England decided they wanted some secret code so that they could have private conversations amongst the non-cockneys. At least that's the only logical conclusion I can come up with. Either that or they all got bored and tried to be poets.