Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Nick Armstrong]

Damn! I have looked it up but have forgotten what it's supposed to mean. I didn't find it necessary to remember

Acc. to the OED apparently:

slang (orig. U.S.). to wake up and smell the coffee (also decaf, etc.): to be realistic or aware; to abandon a naive or foolish notion. Freq. in imper.

Popularized by the U.S. syndicated advice columnist ‘Ann Landers’ (1918-2002, b. Esther Pauline Friedman).

1943 Chicago Daily Tribune 18 Jan. 17/2 A few years back, when a wife told her husband to ‘wake up and smell the coffee’, it usually was said in utter derision. Now, when there is coffee to smell, she shouts it to him in supreme delight

1955 ‘A. LANDERS’ in Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Daily Northwestern 21 Dec. 23/2 Wake up and smell the coffee. Do you want a wife who smokes, drinks, likes taverns and slaps you around?

[P. G. Tipps]

That much salt? Really?

Yes... apart from being a tasty additive, extra salt in the diet is excellent for combating all sorts of muscle-cramps.

I discovered that when I developed high blood pressure and followed standard medical advice ..

[Stan Drews]

I'm not trawling through 188 pages, so apologies if this has already been raised.

Sunday night news - football results: "If you don't want to know the result, turn away/leave the room now."

a) If anybody cares enough, they will know the result(s);
b) There's never enough time to find the remote control, far less get up and leave.

Why do they persist with this nonsense?

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm not trawling through 188 pages, so apologies if this has already been raised.

Stan - you don't have to ... the Search Thread facility is your friend....

He's a screen-shot of part of the top right of this page: see the words Search Thread -









Click on the tiny triangle to the right of the words, enter into the box that appears the relevant keywords (for your post 'football' and 'result' would have done it) and you can easily find and be directed to earlier posts (if any) on the topic...

[Serial_Apologist]

I'm not trawling through 188 pages, so apologies if this has already been raised.

Sunday night news - football results: "If you don't want to know the result, turn away/leave the room now."

a) If anybody cares enough, they will know the result(s);
b) There's never enough time to find the remote control, far less get up and leave.

Why do they persist with this nonsense?

and

c) There's b*gger all anyone can do about them in any case.

[Stanfordian]

Damn! I have looked it up but have forgotten what it's supposed to mean. I didn't find it necessary to remember

'Wake up and smell the coffee' means 'Get real'. Oh, yet another annoying phrase.

[french frank]

Why do they persist with this nonsense?

From R3's Facebook just now:

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Damn! I have looked it up but have forgotten what it's supposed to mean.

"Starbucks is on fire".

[Don Petter]

'Wake up and smell the coffee' means 'Get real'. Oh, yet another annoying phrase.

More likely means 'There's a burglar in the kitchen'?

[Nick Armstrong]

"..... what's expected to be the most unpredictable election in decades"

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"..... what's expected to be the most unpredictable election in decades"

It's like a line from the voice-over of W1A! ("Meanwhile, it's three weeks later")

[Nick Armstrong]

It's like a line from the voice-over of W1A! ("Meanwhile, it's three weeks later")

Wouldn't like to be Paddy Ashdown's hat this evening! *


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*A phrase I never thought I'd write.

[ahinton]

Wouldn't like to be Paddy Ashdown's hat this evening! *

"Clegg on his face", peut-être? (if FF will allow)...

[Nick Armstrong]

"Clegg on his face", peut-être? (if FF will allow)...

Oh dear that makes me want to tell my Heather Mills joke but it's not hostly....

[Serial_Apologist]

Oh dear that makes me want to tell my Heather Mills joke but it's not hostly....

Something to do with the last leg of the election, no doubt, but you can't tell us...