[RickJ]

Next category is common phrases/questions/sayings, and include the source or explanation.

This would be something that you've heard or said many times in your lifetime.

Are you crazy? (slang response to someone suggesting something weird or otherwise odd)

Be all that you can be. (Army slogan)

Cat got your tongue? (Something we say when someone cannot quickly respond to something that we say to them).

Dog-Gonnit! (You say when you'd like to might otherwise say "Dang!", "Aah Sh*t!", "Fooey!", etc.

[adam_89]

I like it Rick!

Now, I shall think.

[RickJ]

Every dog has his day. (Idiom for "everyone is successful at some point in their life") :)

[Synnen]

Fortune smiles on a fool (idiots only manage to live because they're luckier than most people)
Great minds think alike (when two people have a terrific idea at the same time)
Happily ever after (fairy tale ending that signifies that they never had troubles again)
Idle hands are the devil's playground (having nothing to do leads to thinking up ways to get into trouble)

[Aurora_Bell]

Just in the nick of time?
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer?

[Synnen]

Little pitchers have big ears - Children often hear more than you want them to
More money than sense - he's rich, but spends his money on wasteful things
Necessity is the mother of invention - when you have really need something, you'll figure out a way to make it work. Or, alternately, when a need is defined, someone will invent something to fill the need

[RickJ]

Older than dirt (idiom about something real old)
Packed like sardines (idiom about crowded places or things)
Quiet as a mouse (idiom about someone or something that's very quiet)

[Synnen]

Raising Cain--causing trouble
Stitch in time saves nine - idiom meaning that to fix problems before they get worse, and it takes more work to fix them
Two to tango - both people involved in a problem or trouble are equally to blame

[RickJ]

Under the Gun - saying to say that you are in a pressure situation.

Velvet Glove - someone who appears to be gentle but really is not.

Wake up and smell the coffee - what you say to someone who is not recognizing reality.

[Synnen]

X marks the spot - idiom used to talk about someone finding something hidden, or that someone has gotten an answer exactly right
You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear - proverb meaning that you can't make something fine or noble from base materials, or that you can't change someone common and course into a nobleman.

[RickJ]

Zero Hour - that's the time that something is due or will happen.

I'll leave it up to someone else to pick the next category since I am signing off for the weekend.

This is great, keep them coming!

Have a great weekend, all!

[Synnen]

I'm gone for the weekend too, except for sporadic pop-ins today.

How about British phrases that Americans find funny? ;)

[Aurora_Bell]

I was going to say dog breeds, but British slang sounds fun too!

AC/DC meaning bi sexual.

[Synnen]

Bloody hell - well, meaning is obvious, but it's a swear :)
Chuffing Nora -- I have NO idea what this means, but my Brit ex-pat friend uses it all the time when he's mad.

[adam_89]

Well I think the only one I knew was "bloody hell"... darn

[Unknown008]

And I thought I knew what Bloody hell mean :o

[adam_89]

What did you think it meant Unky?

It pretty much is another term or phrase for, oh crap, or dangit, or something along the lines of that.

[Aurora_Bell]

Dog's Bullocks--- I don't really know what it means, but I used to listen to the sex pistols, so I think it kind of means bull poop or something snide.

[albear]

Dog's Bullocks--- I don't really know what it means, but I used to listen to the sex pistols, so i think it kind of means bull poop or something snide.

It means it's the best (use: that korean take-away I had last night was the dog's bullocks) :D

Chuffing nora is kind of the same as bloody hell :o

Earwiggin (eavesdropping)
Fag (cigarette :D)

[Unknown008]

Well, I thought it was some sort of greeting Adam :o