Do you have an interesting idiom?

Burning the midnight oil.

Choking the chicken.

Spanking the monkey.

Having a tug of war with cyclops.

Flying the Chinese flag.
Freezing my ass off.

What’s flying the Chinese flag?

Having sex during a woman’s period. Usually in the dark and the guy doesn’t know it till after.

Oh. The USSR flag would work for that too. Cummin’ with the Communists.

You just invented a new one. Cool.

Colder n a witch’s tit.

Tough shit.

In Polish, “Psia krew!” (PSHAH-cref) is an old-timey curse that means “dog’s blood.” Sometimes paired with “Cholera!” (HO-LARE-uh) which means “cholera” as in the disease.

“Who let the cat out of the bag”?

Felt like I was et by a wolf and shit over a cliff.

“felt like I’d been dragged through a knothole backwards”

Disclaimer: all are rough translations from my language.

Bring woods to the forest.
Throw the leopard away but bring a tiger in.
As quiet as a temple.
Lead a wedding but tail a river passing.
Eat at home but bring the public’s bell.
As happy as seeing a resurrecting father.

On a particularly rough day: I feel like I’ve been dipped in shit and rolled in granola.

Between a rock and a hard place.

“Throw the leopard away but bring a tiger in.”
“As happy as seeing a resurrecting father.”
These are great!

I have a friend who is fond of saying:

“I didn’t know whether to shit or go blind, so I just closed one eye and farted”.

I have a friend who changed up a popular idiom into “As serious as a train wreck!”

Also, my sister and I do things “Like a banshee.” “I was cleaning like a banshee!”
The first time she said that, I said, “I thought banshees just screamed.”
She said, “No, they do LOTS of things.”
Since then, they have done lots of things.

We were camping like a banshee last weekend.

Mostly in Texas, but sometimes in the rest of the US southern states:
“All get-out…” (usually pronounced “all -git-out”)

“She was madder’n (madder than) all git-out!”

I say that. But my dad was raised in Texas

He also used to say, “If ya do that again I’ll beat ya s’verely ‘bout the head and shoulders.”

@Dutchess_III Then you probably know about someone “lookin’ like they been rode hard ‘n’ put up wet!”

I’ve heard that here in Kansas and I despise the term. It’s just another way to shame women for having sex.

Unfortunately it’s developed into that, but it originally referred to a horse who wasn’t properly groomed by the rider or stableman (stableperson) after a day of riding.

That’s why it’s a idiom now, @Yetanotheruser.

We don’t all draw same conclusions!

That isn’t an idiom, @si3tech. An idiom means you allude to one thing, when the literal meaning is another.

@Dutchess_III Knew that. Your interpretation of rode hard etc was not either.

Yes it was. “Rode hard, put away wet” literally refers to a horse that’s been ridden hard and not dried off, or cooled down, before it is put it up.
Used as slang, it refers to a “loose” woman, not a horse

What was your interpretation of it?

I’ve certainly heard it used in that more narrow meaning, but I’ve also heard it used in a more general sense, as in the opposite of “bright-eyed and bushy-tailed”.

The hayseed country bumpkin blew into town with his pedal to the metal (or his mettle to the pedal; those of us who witnessed his entry were on the fence about which it was), and stopped on a dime. “This place looks like the end of the Earth,” he observed.

I let him have it with both barrels at that slur; hit him upside the head, I did. “In a pig’s eye!” I ejaculated. But I did ‘low that from a tall tower just a stone’s throw from here it might be possible to see the end of the Earth. It is kind of a podunk, one-horse town, when we get right down to it. (Whatever it is.)

“Well, I didn’t just fall off the turnip truck, you know,” he swaggered. “I’ve been around. Yep, over, under, around and through. I’ve earned my red wings, too,” he chortled. “But right now I’ve got the trots, and I need to find the can.”

I steered him to the nearest McDonalds, where he dropped his kids at the pool. (One of the customers came out a short while later complaining that it smelled like something had crawled inside him and died there.)

“I wouldn’t mind chewin’ the fat with you,” I told him when he showed his face again, “But I’ve got to get back to the salt mine, put my nose to the grindstone and my shoulder to the wheel. If I blow this job, there’ll be hell to pay when I get back to my crib and face that battle-axe, my ball and chain. She’ll chew my ass for sure, and she might even hand me my walking papers. I can’t afford a pink slip. Maybe I’ll see you later,” I said.
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“See you later” would be my choice.

Um. Mixing metaphors much?!

“She blew her top and hit the roof!”

How about “your ass is grass and I’m the lawnmower”?

Did you know that “letting the cat out of the bag” and “buying a pig in a poke” are related?

Ah. So they are.

My prior idiom actually had 3 parts. Your ass is grass, and I’m the lawnmower AND I’m not just whistling Dixie.