25 Quirky Sayings You Never Knew the Origins Of

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[@christophergraham3160]

Cat got your tongue. Another place this was used was aboard sailing vessels. When a sailor had committed a wrongdoing, oftentimes the Boatswain's Mate (pronounced 'bosun's mate') would, on Captain's orders, punish the offending sailor with a certain number of lashes with the Cat-o-nine-tails. This lashing would often be severe enough that the offending sailor would no longer be able to speak through the pain. The Cat had his tongue. So, when asked a question, and you don't have an answer, people would ask, "Has the Cat got your tongue?"

[@joanhoffman3702]

For #20, there are 3 sayings related to one incident: An unscrupulous seller would place a cat in the bag, and try to sell it as a small pig. If the buyer bought the pig in the poke, and then opened the bag, he let the cat out of the bag, and was left holding the bag.

[@SydneyB]

I was basically going to comment very much the same thing. 😀

[@dustylong]

That "pig in the poke" is actually called "a cat in the sack" in Dutch 😅

[@virginiaschofield2118]

You mentioned the adage "Absence makes a heart grow fonder". I always like to pair that with "Familiarity breeds contempt" and tell people to take their pick. 😊

[@MrAfrojoe89]

Indeed 😊 Smart! Kinda like the glass half blank or half blank?

[@SydneyB]

I've heard it said, Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but love the one you're with." 😂 Don't remember where I heard that.

[@virginiaschofield2118]

In the 1970s, author Kehlog Albran wrote "Whether the glass is half empty or half full depends on if there's a fly in it.". How true. This is my all-time favorite answer to the age-old question. I believe it was in his book "The Profit"...a must read for anyone who likes and understands this type of "philosophy".

[@joanhoffman3702]

😂😂😂 Good one! I will have to remember that!

[@matthewmcintosh4925]

@@virginiaschofield2118a pessimist always wins, an optimism rarely wins, as a pessimist when things go to crap I win, when they don't thats better than expected so I still win, because it's better than expected. As an optimist anything less than you hoped for is a loss. I hoped for this but will settle for this is pessimist territory while lieing to nobody but yourself. If you can't tell yourself the truth why should anyone else believe you.

[@timothyweers8054]

This list deserves a part 2. I heard break a leg and don't throw the baby out with the bathwater recently.

[@courttheshort87]

People say break a leg typically two actors and actresses because they hope they will make the cast. Back in the old days when people had to tote water into the house to take their baths it was common for the fathers to take the bath first then the mother followed by the children meaning that the youngest child will be the last one to be days and by that time because everybody has used the water the water is now dark and murky it was just the sayings to the mothers to be weary to not throw out their youngest children with the bathwater.

[@PADS62]

​@@courttheshort87 I've heard that meaning. Great job. 😊

[@cayenigma]

To anyone confused, 'a stitch in time saves you nine' is referring to mending clothes. If you mend right after the tear happens the hole stays smaller. If you leave the hole be and postpone the mending, the tear will become larger and thus you need more stitches == more work to fix it.

[@pipermccool]

But “Haste makes waste?”

[@cayenigma]

@@pipermccool That is true. You must do the mending carefully, but promptly.

[@matthewmcintosh4925]

It specifically refers to buttons, tailors would sew buttons (hand made and expensive) with 9 stiches. A lose button sewn with a stich would not be lost saving time and money.

[@cayenigma]

@@matthewmcintosh4925 Technically this is also mending, but it does not save nine stitches, it saves one button, so not sure if it applies.

[@CybeleCotter]

My favorite quirky saying is "Dawn comes to Marblehead" for when something obvious suddenly occurs to a dimwit, including myself.

[@ithydoodles]

I've never heard that one and I've been to Marblehead a few times .

[@pipermccool]

Is this the source of “Comes the dawn?”

[@johnware9304]

There was a town called Marblehead in Massachusetts that was on the Atlantic coast. We had a teacher that when you would answer a simple question correctly he would announce " Dawn breaks on Marblehead! " referring to the Sun rising over the town of Marblehead And to the fact that you had? a head as hard as marble.

[@LoriKasprzak-yk6nc]

My favorite is "eaves dropping": I imagine some nosey person falling from hiding & right into the mutton broth. 😉😆😅

[@SydneyB]

I learned a very interesting piece of information about the "Squeaky wheel gets the grease" saying. My sister-in-law was born and raised in Russia. She said that she never heard that until she came to the US. Instead, what they said there was, "The nail that sticks up gets pounded down." Totally the opposite "advice."

[@juststoppingby390]

I love that.

[@lilred668]

From the frying pan into the fire has been one I heard and later used a lot.

[@SydneyB]

I also wanted to add that I heard a slightly different origin to "Bless you." Supposedly when you sneezed, the people of that time believed that it became an entry point for demons and ill spirits. So someone needed to say, "Bless you" quickly to block any evil spirits from entering the body and soul.

[@virginiaschofield2118]

The "evil spirit (devil) entering your soul when you sneeze" is what I've always heard as well. The reasoning behind it was, when you sneeze, your heart supposedly stops beating during that one second (any medical people here to confirm or dismiss this theory?). This means you are technically "dead" for that second...giving the spirit the opportunity it needs to claim you for itself. Saying "Bless you" invokes God to intervene and keep Satan at bay. Whether all of this happens because of a sneeze is anyone's guess.

[@PADS62]

Wow, how freakin scary! That saying must be very very old. 😲😈🥺 lol

[@matthewmckever2312]

Yep, that's the version I know. I'm from London.

[@pipermccool]

I always heard it was because you “technically” die (?!) when you sneeze. 😮

[@scottricklaroque7428]

I've heard a couple reasons, that one, that your soul could slip out when you sneeze so they'd bless you to protect you both until it was back in place. Being it's over 1000 years old I wasn't around to know which, if either, are correct. 😂

[@mistynewland6740]

Me and my husband are going through hard times but Everytime we get a notification that a new video has been posted it makes us forget about all our problems for a short time thank y'all so much please keep up the wonderful work ❤️

[@The_Infamous_Boogyman]

❤

[@doridailey4932]

Same here... We are as well grateful !!!

[@nellywilliams2776]

I’m from the South and my favorite quirky saying is “Fat meat is greasy”. Lol 😂 depending on the context, it usually means learning a lesson the hard way.

[@crystalgoddess4085]

One I can think of with an odd origin is "To bat an eye", meaning to show surprise, fear or concern. It somewhat originates from a book about falconry written in 1614 by Simon Latham, as "batting" was the term he coined to describe a falcon rapidly fluttering it's wings when about to take off. So later in the 19th century, fluttering one's eyes was then described as "batting your eyelashes". Then there is the inverse of the phrase, "To not bat an eye", which is to show no reaction whatsoever.

[@danae5578]

Hum.. and I thought that it had to do with flirting.

[@juststoppingby390]

That's so interesting!

[@raymondmartin6737]

The whole ball of wax, the whole nine yards. Also, full metal jacket. 😊

[@arnellamahoney317]

You can’t burn a candle on both ends is one of my favorite sayings.

[@EsotericBibleSecrets]

You can, but it's not the good idea. The point is that it will burn up faster. Now they have candles where the wax gets recycled.

[@flashgordon3715]

I take my cats for granted. I'm away from them for a few weeks. I can't wait to get home. My heart grows fonder.

[@JennFaeAge]

Fun fact: The Riot Act was last enforced in the 1910s. It wasn't repealed till the 1960s

[@who034]

I always liked "Don't cry over spilled milk" or my mother always said this to me, maybe of German origin, "If wishes were horses then beggars would ride". It helped me a lot to put things in perspective.

[@LittleLarryZellers]

If "ifs" were fifths wed all be drunk

[@pipermccool]

“Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill?” “Two-faced?” “It’ll cost you an arm and a leg?” (ugh) “Lightning never strikes twice?” “When Hell freezes over?” “Many hands make light work,” but “Too many cooks spoil the broth.” So many of these “pairings.”

[@andreaRT1979]

One of my favorite and probably only in my family. My grandfather often would answer 'how do I look?' with the complementary Finer Than Frog Hairs.

[@amichan229]

"The truth will stand when the world's on fire". It's how my dad always got us to tell the truth.

[@lowelllipe9125]

I've also heard that "you can't hold a candle to it" comes from the original days of gunpowder, when if you "couldn't etc..." meant it was the primo mixture because it would light up immediately. If you "could hold etc.." it was inferior.

[@PADS62]

Hmmm, interesting. But i like it. 😊

[@user-db6wv4rd9m]

Absence makes the heart grow fonder: or : how can I miss you if you won’t go away? That was a lyric in a song in the ‘70s?

[@josephtaub20]

Pig in a poke: At temporary farmers' markets (which most were in medieval times) local AND travelling merchants would put out their wares for sale. A less-than-honest merchant might sell you a piglet and put it in a bag (poke) for you to carry it more easily. If you are not watching, he might switch it for something of less consumer value, such as a cat, and you might not discover this until later when the merchant was LONG gone! Bless you! Was used when people used to think your soul left your body when you sneezed and needed to be prayed back in to save you.

[@PADS62]

I've never heard the pig in a poke one. The Bless you I heard the one you said, and also that your heart stopped for a second when you sneezed and that saying Bless you was a little prayer to keep it beating. Could you imagine someone not saying it... that might have meant that they didn't care if you died. A-holes! Bahahahahaaha 😂

[@josephtaub20]

I would guess that most American English users nowadays have never heard "poke" used as a bag, except for Tony Joe White's record "Poke Salad Annie," and still didn't know it was a bag! As for "Bless You," I imagine a great many people would just say to themselves "another Neanderthal religious freak!" But we DO need all the blessings we can get. Have a blessed day! @@PADS62

[@aprilpotter3054]

Looking at other people's comments makes me think this topic could be a series. Sounds very cool to me.

[@RikMorrison]

I remember saying ‘There must be something in the water’ and had to explain it.

[@FreeThePorgs]

The iconic and commonly used saying "Qapla'" is also iconic!!!!!!

[@richewilson6394]

Me and my brother are always trying to one up each other on these idioms and phrases we use every time. Trying to stump the other kind of a friendly intellectual game.

[@theresacarpenter6681]

Absence makes the heart grow fonder but on the other hand, out of sight, out of mind!

[@PADS62]

😂😅😂

[@danae5578]

I thought that "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth" referenced the Trojan War. When the giant wooden horse given as a gift, was received but had soldiers hidden in it. Those soldiers conquered over the darkness of night. I guess I always thought it meant don't receive every gift freely. Isn't there a saying... "Beware of ___?___ bearing gifts. "? I can't remember part of it.

[@randalmayeux8880]

Beware of Geeks bearing gifts.

[@PADS62]

I've always said, when I went into a niece or nephews house & brought gifts, "Beware of your old Italian auntie bringing you gifts," As a joke. They Always laughed. Good times. 😄

[@danae5578]

@@randalmayeux8880 LOLLLLLL GEEKS, huh? Lollll I know that you met Greeks. But that was awesome.

[@manueltapia1859]

If one investigates the real meaning of "saved by the bell" is really scarry 😮

[@courttheshort87]

Did you know because of putting the Bells above fresh Graves is the reason we have What's called the graveyard shift? because people were hired to walk to the graveyard at night listening for the sound of bells. History is dark and interesting.

[@manueltapia1859]

@@courttheshort87 yes back in those days people had deseases that were confused and they asumed were death!!! Really that bell saved lifes

[@theduder2617]

About oil changes for your vehicle: Today, most engine oils are either full synthetic, or a blend of synthetic/non-synthetic. They are designed to resist the acid build up infamous with previous generations of oil. If your car states to change your oil every 3,000 miles, one can safely wait until the 5,000 to 6,000 mile mark. (Heavy hauling/towing and mileage above 100,000 aside) Using BG MOA oil additive at every oil change can increase the wait time between changes a bit. I change mine every 7,000 miles or 4 months, whichever arrives first.

[@patticampana9458]

This was good! Please keep them coming, makes my day✌️

[@malagastehlaate230]

"Don't beat around the Bush"... that one... or the bird in the hand... there are many ... rob the craddle...

[@juststoppingby390]

I left list 25 when you did. I had no idea you were back. And you look fantastic!!!

[@merrileeheard3889]

Love this one Mike ❤

[@patticampana9458]

I still use The Bees Knees😁. Can't Judge a Book by its Cover should be used more today. Politics and Celebrities need apply 🙄.

[@shenloken2]

Sure would be interesting to know the origin of the phrases “Makes strange bedfellows” and “Throwing the baby out with the bath water!”

[@user-vm5ud4xw6n]

I heard that “don’t throw the baby out with the bath water came from the Depression era. People would have big families and they didn’t bathe every day like we do. Saturday night was bath night. They had to either carry water from a creek and heat it up or use the hand pump to pump buckets of water to fill a metal tub. Dad bathed first. Then the next oldest child and so on down the line. If there were a lot of kids by the time the last one got to bathe the water was pretty dirty. Finally the baby got a bath and the expression was a reminder (probably with tongue in cheek) to search the nasty bath water and make sure the baby wasn’t still in it before you tossed the water!

[@virginiaschofield2118]

Your explanation of the "baby bath water" saying is spot on. I'm not sure if it's from the Depression or pioneer days, but this origin is correct. You only left out poor Mom. She needed a bath, too. Hers was after Dad and before the youngens.

[@jonathanmagee33]

Love these!

[@deathscythehell7937]

Very interesting topic, I have two sayings that I use more than any others. #1 It's a sad dog that can't wag his own tail. (Be confident in yourself) #2 If you can't run with the big dogs stay your a** on the porch. (Know your limitations)

[@PADS62]

I gave a really close friend of mine a birthday card that said "you can't run with the big dogs, if you pee like a puppy. 😂😅

[@traceycolbert3635]

"Just cause you put kittens in the oven doesn't mean you can call them biscuits."

[@violetvillard1347]

Alrighty Then!! Others have beat me to it... this deserves a part deux (2): Burning a candle at both ends, Holy Mackerel, Letting the cat out of the bag, etc. (Was trying to figure out the meaning of your shirt in relation to this list during the whole vid. Only thing came to mind was that your true colors are a Hufflepuff Keeper and not a Gryffindor as in the wizarding world? Am I close or completely wrong?)

[@The_Infamous_Boogyman]

All I can think about 0:05 is why ANYONE would grow a beard w no mustache and think they look like anything more than a joke

[@composing-chaos]

“You don’t have the sense God gave piss ants.” I don’t know where it came from but my dad said it all the time.

[@iamlowkeyedits]

xoxo the outro is awesome, the information on point. We here locally say "who doh hear, does feel" Trinidad things and pretty self explanitory

[@julianaylor4351]

A stitch in time saves nine, makes sense to me, because I can sew. I've mended socks, put on buttons that fell of, mended clothes I was wearing and once restitched a leather saddlebag handbag, so it could last another year. So it saves money, if you stitch something, back together. Lets call the nine, the money and the in time, just in time.

[@2010juankerr69]

You mentioned 1/2 a quote, "never buy a pig in a poke", the seller of the pig in a poke would swap the pig for a cat, "who let the cat out of the bag". Talking of cats, the phrase "Not enough room to swing a cat by its tail", has nothing to do with cruelty to cats, it's refers to a type of whip, a cat o' nine tail, used as punishment on ships.

[@jonathanseibert8832]

Hey Mike. Interesting timing on this, just last night I saw a short of a few ppl on Graham Norton talking about odd Dutch and Australian phrases, they're hilarious. You should look it up. Margot Robbie and some Swiss or Dutch actress I'm not familiar with

[@PADS62]

Do you remember or know what the title was, so I can watch it? Thanks man 😊

[@jonathanseibert8832]

@@PADS62 kzbin.info/www/bejne/raGkhGZ_fdCthsUsi=3fiahRbEX3ZrIdVp

[@denisebledsoe8836]

My favorite one is " Don't judge a book by it's cover".. this is so true.. especially as I have gotten older.. great list Mike❤..thank you..😊

[@PlatinumRoseLady]

Cool shirt, Mike! Paws up, fellow 'puff!

[@mysterytruck]

these are interesting facts indeed. thank you.

[@julianmorel451]

You forgot the elephant in the room

[@carmelmhennessy9738]

I love this list. Thank you. My favourite adage is 'A fool and their money are soon parted.'

[@richewilson6394]

Idk if this is considered to be one because it's kind of recent. But my favorite old saying is wishing one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first.

[@catherinespencer-mills1928]

Lived in wheat country for some years. Even with modern combines and such, you harvest when you have a few days of sun and no rain. Your wheat can still be ruined by harvesting during the wrong weather.

[@julianaylor4351]

Colours aren't just a naval ships flag, they are also the regimental flag on a battlefield, hence the British ceremony of Trooping The Colour, a military parade in front of the monarch.

[@mandibailey9104]

I see Mike, I hit like As always, thank you List 25 team

[@timvance836]

The squeaky wheel comes from a poem before cars. Josh Billings, 1870. Before cars were really a thing.

[@lavernekeller2283]

@timvance836 exactly it goes back to the old horse drawn wagons day's where if the axle hubs weren't regularly greased they would start squeaking so that wheels axle would get the grease to lubricate and quiet the wheel. The axles and wheels at that time were all made of wood so protecting the axles from friction from the wheels rotary movement would keep the wagon rolling along properly. If the axle and wheel combination was allowed to go on squeaking and such for too long then it would be harder to fix possibly leading to replacement of both the wheel and the axle which was very labor intensive and costly.

[@denaolson1719]

I usually use be there in the shake of a dog's tail. Basically on my way in a hurry.

[@kylekirkparick426]

I haven't watched any of this yet, but I already know that I'll love this. I've looked up dozens of sayings/commonly used phrases, out of sheer curiosity. Hopefully I don't know some of these, I really wanna know why the cat has your tongue. Lbvs.

[@PADS62]

LBVS? I've never seen that acronym, if it is an acronym? 😅

[@kylekirkparick426]

@@PADS62 lbs is laughing but serious. You've never seen lbvs, or laughing but very serious?

[@PADS62]

​@@kylekirkparick426 No... this is the very first time. Ell, I've seen one other person say it somewhere in the comments to this particular video. So I Just had to find out what it meant. Thanks for letting me know. 😊

[@kylekirkparick426]

@@PADS62 I've used lbs before and had people think that I was criticizing their weight. lbs.

[@PADS62]

LMAO! That would be BAD! 😂😂

[@lisaquinlan1292]

My favorite saying is that something good or cool is “fetch”. LOL.

[@catguy5425]

I always thought "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" meant that you shouldn't question the origins of a gift. Like, if you find your bank account has an extra $100 that you didn't put in, you're better off not questioning it because it might be due to error and withdrawn. And I thought the origins of the idiom referred to the Trojan horse.

[@PADS62]

Interesting. I wonder which ones the correct one? Hey, Mike, can we get a clarification, please. 😊

[@frankhooper7871]

But if it referred to the Trojan horse, then the advice should be to investigate the gift more thoroughly - basically the opposite.

[@radiorob]

Great video, but remember, to get it right you only get one kick at the cat!

[@kamilkarnale6010]

Fascinating!

[@danae5578]

Interesting, "rule of thumb" I thought that the thumb was used as a measuring tool. For example for placement for artists that paint or draw.

[@markjohnson7887]

The beating your wife bit was invented by radical feminists about 10 years ago and quickly debunked.

[@marveloussoftware4914]

"Dont let the cat out of the bag" has a similar origin from "dont buy a pig in a poke." Con men would sell a cat in a bag as if it were a pig. Opening the bag spoils the con.

[@derrekkestrel9304]

On the "Riot Act", Prince Escalus' speech during a street brawl between the Capulets and Montagues. If you're knowledgeable of Romeo and Juliet. Basically, he tells them to stop fighting and bitching and they will be put to death should they do it again.

[@neilhaverly4117]

Love the spill the beans explanation and just wanted to add one more that came to my mind at the mention of the phrase. Jack and the magic beans where the beans become the vines that gain access to the realm of the Giants

[@drnstvns]

My grandma updated “Squeaky wheel gets the grease.” She’d add “Yeah and it’s the first one replaced too.” LOL

[@nordhand]

A coomon one in Norway is to say "It was completely Texas" for describing a situation that went all out of contoll. Have it origins from when westen movies was popular.

[@drbluzer]

I once used the comparison phrase around my lady friend that something was ..."HIGHER THAN A CAT'S BACK" and she asked me what that meant as she told me she had never heard that phrase before . I told her that it meant that something was expensive to buy . My aunt used to use that phrase many times over when I was a kid !

[@angelicamedina148]

I was just asking my husband where "screwed the pooch" came from lol

[@PADS62]

Where did he say it came from? Lol

[@missybumble4105]

The bees knees. I believe that it means you have a lot of something. Example fashion sense. Bees carry the honey back to the hive on their knees.

[@EsotericBibleSecrets]

"My name is Mud," could go all the way back to Adam and Eve.

[@andreamaria85]

I don’t give a rats @ss is honestly my favourite!

[@tizzieblack3384]

Thanks, your content is entertaining and informative, I always enjoy it, however I was 16:03 always taught that the sqeaky wheel would be on a horse or ox drawn wagon and the pig in a poke refers to the sale of a piglets. The animal is taken away and put in a sack for transporting, but when it is opened it is revealed that a cat has been substituted for the piglet, hence you have let the cat out of the bag.

[@joshlunt7827]

Interesting video! 😁

[@reece3163]

I'm so good at breaking the ice they call me Kristoff. Jokes I'm awkward as sh*t

[@semigoth299]

Holy Mackerel

[@Azphreal]

I always thought that the term bless you when someone sneezed was because they thought the devil was trying to enter your body via the nose and teh saying 'Cat got you tongue' was from the navy where the 'cat of nine tails' was used as punishment and you would be unable to speak because of teh pain.

[@SusanNessles]

A stich in time saves 9 means, or so I was taught, if you take care of a problem when it first presents then you will most likely keep the issue from getting worse.

[@iagrams9100]

So I have a saying and don’t have any idea where it came from. “I don’t care a flying rat’s ****” I think it came from a movie but don’t know which one.

[@MelandriaSurewind]

My favorite saying is "Whatever floats your boat", which I do not know the origin of.

[@user-oc9vh6bk7z]

👍 wtg Mike another good one👍

[@lailashryock3623]

It’s so very awesome seeing you again, I hope you are doing well ☺️

[@jenniferlindsey2015]

My mother used to say, “back in two shakes of a lambs tail”. I’d like to know where that came from.

[@johnbaier6385]

Don't forget task force 145, the real life inspiration for Call of Duty's task force 141.

[@jenniferfields10]

When "steal your thunder" came up, I immediately thought of "more than you can shake a stick at". I'd love to know how that one started!

[@missheadbanger]

My grandpa says, "Oh my shattered eyelids." When he's surprised or startled.

[@buckysgirl4945]

An apple a day will keep anyone away if you throw it right.

[@list25]

Do you know any other quircky sayings? Leave comment below and I will try to reply to all of them. 🍿 Watch my other videos as well: 25 Origins of Everyday Sayings - kzbin.info/www/bejne/bX6aqWuqYs2Ni5Y 25 Weird and Wonderful Facts About Everyday Objects You Didn’t Know - kzbin.info/www/bejne/b36ac5aod9VjmpY

[@ifunnyuser6838]

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[@ifunnyuser6838]

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[@dsxa918]

What did you just say to me? I'll have you know

[@ifunnyuser6838]

@dsxa918 Hi it's Vince from shamwow, you'll be saying wow every time. It's like a shammy, it's like a towel, it's like a sponge. A regular towel doesn't work wet, this works wet or dry. This is for the house The Car The Boat The RV Shamwow holds 12 times it's weight in liquid, look at this, it just does the work. Why do you want to work twice as hard? It doesn't drip, doesn't make a mess, wring it out. You wash it in the washing machine. Made in Germany, you know the Germans always make good stuff. Here's some cola, wine, coffee, cola, pet stains. Not only is your damage going to be on top, there's your mildew. That is gonna smell, see that. Now we're gonna do this in real time, look at this, put it on the spill, turn it over without putting any pressure, 50% of the cola...right there you following me camera guy? The other 50% the color starts to come up no other towels' gonna do that. It acts like a vacuum, and look at this virtually dry on the bottom. See what I’m telling ya Shamwow you'll be saying wow every time. I can't live without it, I just love it! Oh my gosh I don't even buy paper towels anymore. If you're gonna wash your cars or any other vehicle, you'll be out of your mind not to own one of these. All I can say is SHAM! WOW! You're gonna spend twenty dollars every month on paper towels anyway you're throwin away your money. The mini shamwows are for everything, for everyday use. This last ten years, this last a week, I don't know it sells itself. The shamwow sells for 19.95 you get one for the house, one for the car, two for the kitchen and bathroom. But if you call now, within the next twenty minutes cause we can't do this all day, we'll give you a second set absolutely free. So that's 8 shamwows for 19.95. It comes with a ten year warranty, here's how to order. (+ Shamwow Mop - no more hands and knees) Call 18009517100 Shamwow it not available in stores and is made in Germany beware of Shamwow imitators, call 18009517100 that’s 18009517100 call now

[@PADS62]

​@@ifunnyuser6838 What is wrong with you?

[@dsxa918]

"Fall out of common use" - I barely noticed the toilet seat was up, before I sat down around the time M.Estrin said this

[@pennykeller3048]

I always tell my kids money doesn't grow on trees. I wonder what it means since paper comes from trees and money is made from paper.

[@feralbluee]

“Come hell or high water!” i won’t wear that hat come hell or high water. my mom grew up in the midwest. - Chicago in the 1920’s and 30’s. she used a few phrases from that area (not used in New York). another one was, “Ye gods!” usually said by girls. it is used in the film “The Music Man”. (“There’s always a band, kid.”)

[@MeeCee5204]

The squeaky wheel gets replaced.

[@user-gb9zb6sg8o]

Bury the hatchet is my favorite

[@pb-SCROOGE]

Darn KIDS you would forget your head if it wasn’t fasten on !🤣

[@list25]

I heard that many times growing up!

[@user-gb9zb6sg8o]

Damn my favorite was turn a blind eye

[@reece3163]

Wait.. you're meant to change oil when your vehicle tells you? I always thought it was a suggestion

[@dsxa918]

It's also a reflection of your aptitude as an owner. Some people won't see that often in their life, at all.

[@reece3163]

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[@mikeburkhart8336]

What about "Don't put the cart before the horse"? What's it's origin?

[@mykemech]

Like I have always said: "You can't lead a gift horse by the mouth, but you can make it drink water."