Did you ever actually THINK about some sayings that have become standards in the American language? Some of them make no sense, some are just plain stoopid!! ;P Here are some f'rinstances:"As cute as a button." Have you ever looked at a button??!!!...'cute' is not a phrase I would use unless there might be some baby clothing out there with little lambies on the button. 'Round as a button,' 'tarnished as a Civil War button,' 'four-holed as a button' might be possible, but NOT 'cute!!'
Then there's 'happy as a clam.' Just exactly how happy is a clam? Is this a clam at any oyster feed where everybody's slurping down the raw and otherwise cooked oysters without pearls, leaving them thar clams alone??!! ;P
I just spotted 'bald as a cucumber' on a site. Does that mean the guy who's being compared to the cuke also has a whole lot of little bumps on his head and green stripey skin?
If someone has 'not one red cent,' does this mean he's not going to make it in a Communist country? And for that matter, why ARE Commies called Reds? OK...the International Communist flag is all red, hence the name.
If you do something 'in cold blood,' shouldn't you be dead, given that 98.6 is the normal temp?
Well, my Feng Shui album is soothing me so that my shoe is on the other foot...
Oh, yeah...just exactly how smart is a whip?
Got wonderment?
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