Sayings That Don't Make Sense
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This one makes sense, but it's too cute not to share. Another coworker was full of little sayings, "handier than a pocket on a t-shirt", etc. But whenever we had to get into one of the little buggies, or were slowly prepping for a task, we were "off like a herd of turtles."
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"Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" never made sense to me, until my son and I took a tour at a military museum in London. Turns out the "brass monkey" was a plate with holes cut in it. Cannon balls would be stacked on top of the plate. When it got cold enough, the metal in the plate would constrict at a faster rate than the metal in the cannon balls, and they would end up rolling out of the holes in the plate, with the whole stack collapsing and going everywhere.
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Just last night my stepdaughter, who lives in Georgia, and I were moaning and groaning about "getting old". She said "well, it's better than a dirt nap". I thought it was just one of these sayings that don't really mean anything but eventually she had to explain it means being dead and buried.
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