Silly Sayings Day: Remember That One?
Don't get your dander up but it's time to spill the beans! Besides International Skeptics Day and No Bra Day, Oct. 13 is the cat's meow! It's Silly Sayings Day, an annual "holiday" created by Jace Shoemaker-Galloway, the "Queen of Holidays", that celebrates silly sayings and phrases.
Like fashion, popular catch phrases, interesting expressions and witty sayings tend to come and go. While some of today's most popular phrases include a slew of easy-to-use acronyms like LOL, BFF and BRB, many popular phrases from days gone by are still used today. But have you ever really stopped to think what these sayings actually mean?
Take a peek at a few of the sayings below and try to figure out what these once popular phrases actually mean. Give it a go and take your best shot!
Silly Sayings and Phrases
It's raining cats and dogs
Look what the cat dragged in
The cat's pajamas
The cat's meow
Cat got your tongue?
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
Bats in the belfry
A dog is a man's best friend
Hair of the dog that bit you
Bark up the wrong tree
Barking mad
Your chickens will come home to roost
Don't count your chickens before they hatch
High on the hog
Knee high to a grasshopper
Bee's knees
Fly in the ointment
Snug as a bug in a rug
Like a bull in a china shop
Get your goat
Get off your high horse
Straight from the horses mouth
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
Horse feathers
Chew the cud
You can lead a jackass to water, but you can't make him drink!
Long in the tooth
Go berserk
Off your rocker
Mind your Ps and Qs
Loose lips sink ships
Caught red-handed
Look before you leap
Tickled pink
Tickle my fancy
Funny bone
Skip to my Lou
For Pete's sake (who is Pete?)
Heavens to Betsy (who is Betsy?)
Heaven forbid
To hell in a hand basket
The jig is up
Face the music
Get your dander up
Fly by the seat of your pants
Head over heels
Beat around the bush
An empty gun makes the loudest bang!
Bite the bullet
Dead ringer
The sky's the limit
Straighten up
Kick the bucket
A drop in the bucket
Don't spill the beans
Slower than molasses in January
Fancy pants
A good man is hard to find
Hanky panky
Three sheets to the wind
Sticky wicket
Elbow grease
Old fogey
Hissy fit
Alive and kicking
Dead as a doornail
Where there is a will, there is a way
Always a bridesmaid, never a bride
Holy cow
Holy Toledo
Holy smokes
Jeepers creepers
Rise and shine
My stars
Come in if your nose is clean
That's the berries!
Hell bent
Don't get your dander up
On cloud nine
On the wagon
Once in a blue moon
Go to pot
Golly
Gee wiz
Gee Willikers
Dadgum it
Happy Silly Sayings Day!
Sources:
The Phrase Finder: The meaning and origin of expressions
LJWorld: Old sayings and the Meanings Behind Them