The wife just said it and was amazed that I hade never heard it before.

Is she weird?

Am I weird?

People are trying to invent new phrase to look trendy nowadays like the TV ad “… clean as a squid …”. What is that?

I bet most do not even know what a squid looks like …

Yes, it is weird.

I do it because I do a direct translation from other languages just for a laugh …

What about “as happy as a fat spider”? First heard via the excellent Yorkshire bowler Dizzy Gillespie.

I’m useless at this, when i was about 21 my girlfriend and her best mate took a load of similes and cut them in half, put them in 2 different pots, mixed them up and then stuck them back together randomly.

To this day i’m still found to be saying things like “I’m as hungry as a mouse”

But never heard that one before, but i’m clearly not an authority on the subject, thanks to the above.

People are trying to invent new phrase to look trendy nowadays like the TV ad “… clean as a squid …”. What is that?

The whole concept of that advert has passed you by hasn’t it 🙂

we used to say ” as hard as a chocolate frog ” in a somewhat derisory manner

She sounds as mad as a box of chocolates.

Nope. I’ve heard the clit licking frog joke though.

Two of my favourites..

We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it.
I take my hand off to you.

We call sprogs at work chocolate frogs (army and fire service) also on a frog theme the army also use bayonet as in bayonet frog

Also heard mad as a box of frogs

A girlfriend at university who studied Persian and Arabic quoted a Farsi parting phrase, ‘may you never spiral headlong into a bouquet of donkeys’ penises.’ Very evocative I thought.

My mate says if you fell into a sea of c0cks you’d come out sucking your thumb. I’m never sure if it means your lucky or unlucky tbh

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A very demure young Polish lady who works in our office once used a phrase in her native tongue phrase that roughly translated as:

“Don’t stick your tongue out or a cow will piss on it”

Common saying where she grew up apparently, the mind boggles.

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People are trying to invent new phrase to look trendy nowadays like the TV ad “… clean as a squid …”. What is that?

The whole concept of that advert has passed you by hasn’t it [/quote]

Yes, I am afraid to say so …

Yes, I am no longer trendy 🙁

I’ve heard (& use) ‘daft as a box of frogs’, ‘daft a a ships/lighthouse cat’.

Never heard the chocolate frog one .

‘mad as a box of frogs’
I first heard this on here many years ago, and have since only heard it here.
Used it at work since and the young’uns thought it was a cool saying.

When someone I know annoys me and I, jokingly, wish them mild harm, I use the phrase “I hope your next shit is a hedgehog”.

My dad’s best mate says “like a stocking to a chickens lip;” ! I always walked away smirking puzzled.