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"Thank you for having me"
It's weird
"half assed" was quite funny
Me being Catalan, a culture with many poop related phrases and traditions, I'm pretty fond of "when shit hit the fan"
Ain't no way I'm clicking that link...
As for cool phrases, my favourite is: "It's raining cats and dogs" (because it's funny if you imgane it, bit also macabre when you know th reason behind the phrase => back in the days the dead cats and dogs from allays would wash up on the main street when it was pouring down like crazy).
Wow I didn’t know that. Dark.
"When you mess with the bull, you get the horns."
It never stops to make me smile that most Germans cannot pronounce "squirrel" properly, while most native English speakers cannot pronounce the same word in German "Eichhörnchen".
"Fleshed out" just means to explain & expand upon.
These kids run through the house like shit through a goose.
Native English speaker, never heard this one.
It's a West Texasism.
+1 for it's raining cats and dogs
But also
that's the way the cookie crumbles is just adorable
dinkin flicka just rolls off the tongue
bite the bullet is so raw and literal and
Bob's your uncle is just... No. Who the fuck is Bob 😂
If you didn't know, biting the bullet doesnt mean killing yourself. It comes from back in the day when soldiers would be given a bullet to bite down on while they got their leg amputated. Which is kind of even more gruesome
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