Common words and phrases that are impossible to realize - Page 3

Till · 2018-09-07, 15:25

"My *something* got to hell in a handbasket."

Think of *something* bigger than a handbasket.

Till · 2018-09-07, 15:43

More stuff from the sky department:

"I'll get you the moon from the sky"
"I'll get you the sunshine"

Till · 2018-09-07, 16:18

"walk on clouds"
"sunshine in the heart"

Enough spam, sorry...

paulunderwood · 2018-09-07, 16:36

"moon on a stick"

paulunderwood · 2018-09-07, 16:51

"police intelligence"

Till · 2018-09-07, 17:16

Can't stop...

"to cry one's eyes out"

Till · 2018-09-07, 17:20

"to work one's butt off"

Don't know if that is physically possible ;-)

petrw1 · 2018-09-07, 20:56

You've never seem an old laborer dude? :)

Skinny and wrinkled and definitely no BUTT

Dr Sardonicus · 2018-09-07, 21:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by Till

"to work one's butt off"

Don't know if that is physically possible ;-)

That, and the topic of this thread, remind me of a great circumlocution:

Quote:

He added an obscenity current in Barlow's time, a standard but physiologically impossible directive, and strutted off hulking his shoulders and balling his fists.

-- The Marching Morons by Cyril Kornbluth

Till · 2018-09-12, 15:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by petrw1

You've never seem an old laborer dude? :)

Skinny and wrinkled and definitely no BUTT

Sure I did. There are all kinds. Maybe those "skinny, wrinkled and definitely no BUTT" old laborers have been skinny and "buttless" in there younger years, too? ;-)

Till · 2018-09-12, 16:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dr Sardonicus

That, and the topic of this thread, remind me of a great circumlocution:

"He added an obscenity current in Barlow's time, a standard but physiologically impossible directive, and strutted off hulking his shoulders and balling his fists."

-- The Marching Morons by Cyril Kornbluth

Is it possible to fully understand from that context what that "physiologically impossible directive" was?

2018-09-07, 16:18	#25
Till "Tilman Neumann" Jan 2016 Germany 2⁶·7 Posts	"walk on clouds" "sunshine in the heart" Enough spam, sorry... Last fiddled with by Till on 2018-09-07 at 16:19 Reason: xD

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2018-09-07, 15:25	#23
Till "Tilman Neumann" Jan 2016 Germany 2⁶·7 Posts	"My something got to hell in a handbasket." Think of something bigger than a handbasket.

2018-09-07, 15:43	#24
Till "Tilman Neumann" Jan 2016 Germany 1C0₁₆ Posts	More stuff from the sky department: "I'll get you the moon from the sky" "I'll get you the sunshine"

2018-09-07, 16:36	#26
paulunderwood Sep 2002 Database er0rr 3,739 Posts	"moon on a stick"

2018-09-07, 16:51	#27
paulunderwood Sep 2002 Database er0rr 3,739 Posts	"police intelligence"

2018-09-07, 17:16	#28
Till "Tilman Neumann" Jan 2016 Germany 2⁶×7 Posts	Can't stop... "to cry one's eyes out"

2018-09-07, 17:20	#29
Till "Tilman Neumann" Jan 2016 Germany 2⁶×7 Posts	"to work one's butt off" Don't know if that is physically possible ;-)

2018-09-07, 20:56	#30
petrw1 1976 Toyota Corona years forever! "Wayne" Nov 2006 Saskatchewan, Canada 4676₁₀ Posts	You've never seem an old laborer dude? :) Skinny and wrinkled and definitely no BUTT