For example, for some reason I really like the phrases 'fall into place' (it's comforting, somehow) and 'live' to mean 'belong', as in 'Where does this pot live?', because I find it amusing.
2006-09-07 20:05:12 · 35 answers · asked by new-in-town 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Serendipity.
The faculty of making happy or chance finds.
2006-09-07 20:10:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Il n’était pas Français pour des prunes" is an outstanding expression and also you could make human beings snicker by technique of bringing it into convesation. for sure, it would not should be "Français" -- it will be any nationality, or any own characteristic. It extra or less translates: "He wasn't French for no longer some thing" and also you would stick with it up by technique of describing some thing very established or real that he did. “Il avait étudié à perfection les arcanes de l. a. langue française.” An previous commercial which i respect yet have problem in explaining to human beings is this: Du bo Du bon Dubonnet!
2016-11-06 21:26:57 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 Sh*t happens
2 Bunny Boiler [From Fatal Attraction film]
3 If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen
4 No Sh*t Sherlock [Obvious answer]
5 Born in a barn [shut the door]
2006-09-07 20:35:51 · answer #3 · answered by Todd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don Vito Corleone(Marlon Brando) says:"i`m gonna make you an offer you can`t refuse!" in "Mario Puzo's The Godfather" movie(1972).
2006-09-07 21:36:51 · answer #4 · answered by alexsmajor 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favourite word is 'papoose' but it's not strictly English, but then again, what is?
My favourite expression at the moment is one I made up 'Delegation is the first refuge of the icompetent'
2006-09-07 20:22:13 · answer #5 · answered by itchy colon 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I tend to vacillate In my preference of favourite words
Vacillate......thats a nice word isn't it
favourite phrase is "you sit down, I'll pay for this one" when uttered by someone else.
2006-09-07 20:15:26 · answer #6 · answered by Vinni and beer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
'You most certainly can if you may not!'
My children are now aged 31 and 25, remember me telling them and are now saying the same to their own kids. Having said that ... I'm the only one in teh family still having to spend a penny. My children and everyone else go to the toilets! Not me! I can't bring myself to say i need the toilets. I still spend a penny!!!!
2006-09-07 20:24:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite phrase was uttered a couple years ago. I will put it here for your consideration:
"After 86 years, the wait is over. The Boston Red Sox are World Champions!!!!"
Pretty moving, isn't it?
2006-09-07 20:07:52 · answer #8 · answered by ffxi_minizilla 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My grand-father often said : "I never thought it !" meaning we often get shocks from people that we thought will never do a thing like that.
" Never touch the Lord's anointed" even when Satan was about do be judged before God , the angel Michael said : " Let , God judge him ." meaning, he was still one of God's anointed before he was condemned.
" What will not happen in a year, will happen in a day." Some-times , what seems will never happen , often happens in a twinkling of an eye.
2006-09-07 20:51:39 · answer #9 · answered by skeetejacquelinelightersnumber7 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spam...
*See Monty Python*
2006-09-07 20:07:30 · answer #10 · answered by dj8t4 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋