https://lloydroc.github.io/tags/idioms/Recent content in Idioms on Lloyd Rochester's Geek BlogHugoenCopyright © 2025, Lloyd Rochester.Wed, 19 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://lloydroc.github.io/post/idioms/Wed, 19 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://lloydroc.github.io/post/idioms/<p>Some of my favorite idioms. Sorry I don&rsquo;t have the author of them currently, and the context will have to be determined for each of them.</p> <ul> <li>Open the Kimono</li> <li>Always better to keep your pants on with a belt and suspenders</li> <li>Not even pregnant and already asking the sex</li> <li>When knee deep in alligators you need to drain the swamp</li> <li>When someone comes in your office with a Monkey; make sure they leave with the monkey</li> <li>Look a gift horse in the mouth</li> <li>Spend all our time chasing the hogs and never fix the fence</li> <li>Just because it&rsquo;s an ugly baby doesn&rsquo;t mean were not going to deliver it</li> <li>It only takes one doctor to deliver a baby</li> <li>Clean up after the elephant</li> <li>The most dangerous thing about being a life guard is saving someone else&rsquo;s life</li> <li>A bird in one hand is worth two in the bush</li> <li>All stick and no carrot</li> <li>Tell me what time it is; don&rsquo;t build me a watch</li> <li>The #1 rule of the wing walker is to make sure you have firm grasp in one hand before releasing the other</li> <li>There are lies and there are statistics, what is the difference?</li> <li>Catching a falling knife</li> <li>Iron fist in a velvet glove</li> <li>Move heaven and earth to get something done</li> <li>Fruit from the poison tree</li> <li>Say FU in 1000 words</li> <li>Can&rsquo;t unring a bell</li> <li>Drowning in a tea-cup</li> <li>Gold ring in a pigs snout</li> <li>Bring a knife to a gun fight</li> <li>Hard to dance with a devil on your back</li> <li>Beat your swords into plowshares</li> <li>When x gets its prostate checked it&rsquo;s y who gets tickled</li> <li>I like the dreams of the future rather than the history of the past</li> <li>Trash can of history</li> <li>They&rsquo;re all pregnant and know one knows who the father is</li> <li>See the forest from the trees</li> <li>Be fruitful and multiply</li> <li>The harvest is plentiful but he laborers are few</li> <li>Like putting an anorexic on a diet</li> <li>Can&rsquo;t Stop looking at the windsheild wipers and see where going</li> <li>A rut is only a few feet shallower than a grave.</li> <li>Adapted like a poisonous snake - looks the same - but when comes time to execute it can&rsquo;t</li> <li>Sunshine is the best disinfectant</li> <li>Dumpster Fire</li> <li>Those who do not understand Autoconf are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.</li> <li>No plan ever survives first contact with the enemy</li> <li>Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face</li> <li>There isn&rsquo;t a cow on the ice. Meaning it&rsquo;s not an emergency.</li> <li>Stand on the shoulders of giants</li> <li>Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. &ndash;Twain</li> </ul>