sayings you never understood

[Argon]

you can't have cake and eat it too

uh, yes I will. that's why I have cake. unless its fruitcake, then ill throw it at blueberries and yell cursewords at the cake gods above rather emphatically

[-AJ-]

I always hate it when people say "I could care less!", because usually when they say that, they don't care very much, so it doesn't make much sense to say you could care any less than you already do. It makes much more sense to say "I couldn't care less".

[avelanch]

you can't have cake and eat it too

uh, yes I will. that's why I have cake. unless its fruitcake, then ill throw it at blueberries and yell cursewords at the cake gods above rather emphatically

[avelanch]

I always hate it when people say "I could care less!", because usually when they say that, they don't care very much, so it doesn't make much sense to say you could care any less than you already do. It makes much more sense to say "I couldn't care less".

[goalie13]

"Yeah, no"

And...

"Just saying", because people who say "just saying" are never just saying anything.

[hudson bay rules]

'As clean as a whistle'. I never understood this one until my friend set me straight.

He couldn't figure out 'don't look a gift horse in the mouth'.

[Baka]

"No offense but...." your face looks like a horses ass

[Lui's Knob]

6 one half dozen....= what?

[ChuckNORRIS4Cup]

Is the glass half full, or half emtpy?

[Where's Wellwood]

6 one half dozen....= what?

[MikeyBoy44]

One I'm seeing everywhere is Chive on. A Chive is an onion last I checked, so onion on?

[Argon]

but if you eat your cake, you no longer have it. that's the reason behind the saying. the original proverb is you can't eat your cake, and possess it too.

[BananaMash]

What if you only eat half the cake and keep the rest?

[ChuckNORRIS4Cup]

You mean '6 of one, a half-dozen of the other'?

That glass isn't symmetrical from top to bottom, therefore if is neither half empty nor half full. It is less than half full and more than half empty.

[73 Percent]

Same difference

No differences are different that's why they call them different.

And

I could care less

this is said when people don't care about something. But in saying that you could care less means that you care to some extent. So the correct saying is you couldn't care less (than you already do right now)

[MikeyBoy44]

Beating around the bush? What of the bush is prickly and poisonous? I sure as hell wouldn't be facing it dead on.

[avelanch]

but what if I haven't eaten the cake yet?

[avelanch]

Beating around the bush? What of the bush is prickly and poisonous? I sure as hell wouldn't be facing it dead on.

[avelanch]

One I'm seeing everywhere is Chive on. A Chive is an onion last I checked, so onion on?

[avelanch]

'As clean as a whistle'. I never understood this one until my friend set me straight.

He couldn't figure out 'don't look a gift horse in the mouth'.