"Let Your Freak Flag Fly" .........:



To let others see your uniqueness. Show off the wild side of you most never see!

STICK TO YOUR GUNS..................


To refuse to compromise or change your mind.

"___got a bone to pick with you."

We 'got' an issue! We NEED to talk.

...Right On The Money.....

Meaning: It infer's that someone is exactly correct about x, y or z.

"If you play with fire you are going to get burnt"..........



When someone is playing with fire they are doing something that will result in them being harmed. It's true for sure without a doubt....:hangloose:

"You can't get blood out of a turnip".........


You can only get from people what they are willing or able to give! It's impossible to get from someone what they do not have!

.....Knock On Wood.....

Used by people rapping their knuckles on wood to stave off bad luck. Or,,,,, it's said tongue-in-cheek for when someone's had a ton of good luck, and as a way to avoid bad luck.

(I don't think it's either true or false)

.....Riding into the Sunset.....

Meaning: Typically seen at the end of certain movies as a way to indicate that a happy life is taking place after the end of the story.

..... Sharp as a Tack .....

Refers to describing someone as very clever, extremely witty, incomparably smart, to have a keen cutting edge.....

.....Clean as a Whistle .....

This idiom refers to the 'whistling' sound a sword makes as it moves though space. It's also a descriptor for referring to leaving spaces clean. And, to also indicate that surfaces are clean beyond a trace, spotless.

"Locking the barn door after the horse has been stolen"


Take precautions after damage has occurred.

"That's The Way the Cookie Crumbles".............


That's just the way it goes. Just the way things happen;that's life.

"Waste Not Want Not".............


Meaning, if you use a commodity or resource carefully and without extravagance, you will never be in need.

"They've Lived A Charmed Life"....


A life characterized or seemingly protected by marked good fortune or luck, without (or rarely) encountering trouble, danger.

"Bet Your Bottom Dollar"..........


If you say you can bet your bottom dollar that something will happen or is true, you mean you are completely certain it is or will.

"Join The Club"............

An expression indicating that the person spoken to is in the same, or a similar, unfortunate situation.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all".


Proverb. Love is such an important experience that even the pain of losing someone you love is better than not having loved that person.


Sidebar:A line from Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem, "In Memoriam A. H. H."

"Welcome To My World"...........

Personally I love using this when someone experiences the same problem I have.

"Like Looking For A Needle In A Haystack"..............


Looking for something extremely hard to find. Something that is impossible or extremely difficult to find, especially because the area you have to search is so large.

Whenever I hear this phrase, I think of the song "Tomorrow"... as sung by Annie, in the movie Annie (1986). :balloon:



And....:balloon: .... every time I hear this turn of phrase, I hear Jim Reeves, in his classic song titled Welcome to My World



And..... :giggle: .... every time I hear this phrase, I think of Vera (The Feminine Chicken) in the Gary Larson sketch about being in the Hay Bar.

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