Mine is "Putting the cart before the horse" That means nothing!
2006-08-14 23:04:11 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
"It is better to have loved & lost than never to have loved at all."
Seems like a load of bunk to me...
2006-08-16 07:47:10 · answer #1 · answered by Selkie 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
To answer Stacy (about the bird in the hand):
It means that what you have, even if it's not ideal, is better than having nothing. Or, it's better to drive an old Ford than to be walking and wishing for a Ferrari.
My personal peeve is "The proof is in the pudding." This is meaningless. It's a corruption of the old proverb, "The proof of the pudding is in the eating," but no one lately seems to get it right.
2006-08-15 10:44:17 · answer #2 · answered by keepsondancing 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In that song by Michael Penn "Innocent One" he says something like "turning thistle down lefter (or left dear)."
I don't have the lyrics and I am thinking that comes from an Old English poem, but I am clueless and too lazy to google it.
I realize no one says this all the time, but I wear my iPod a lot. So I hear at least once a week.
2006-08-15 01:24:37 · answer #3 · answered by adieu 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are toeing the line. Putting the cart before the horse means what the horse is carrying is more important than the horse its self
2006-08-15 08:36:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
To put the cart before the horse means to do something in an unplanned / disorganized way. You have to do things in a step-by-step approach or they don't work.
Just to answer Gar's question above - it means to get older!
Your teeth don't grow, but your gums recede as you get older, so if you have long teeth it means you are old!
2006-08-14 23:17:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Job Satisfaction
2006-08-15 00:22:28 · answer #6 · answered by MsCymru 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never heard that one before but I usually mix all of my saying up. But I never understand the "your a bit long in the tooth" dont have a clue why this said cause who grows long teeth.
2006-08-14 23:13:37 · answer #7 · answered by Gar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think, on balance, "Many a mickle makes a muckle" would have to be the one that has me staring like a dog that's just been shown a card trick. Many of...one thing I don't understand...makes one other thing I don't undertand that sounds almost exactly like the thing I didn't understand in the first place....
Yeah...
Thanks for that. Anyway, moving on...
2006-08-15 01:27:06 · answer #8 · answered by mdfalco71 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never understood "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" or something like that. What the heck does that mean!!!
2006-08-14 23:09:27 · answer #9 · answered by ♥Stacy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My mom always says "the head on that and the price of cabbage"
I have no idea what it means.
2006-08-14 23:14:37 · answer #10 · answered by sling it bird 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When someone I dont know says, "Hi, how are you doing" Do they really care? What the heck are they talking about?
2006-08-15 06:56:28 · answer #11 · answered by Bent 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋