Cut The Mustard and other strange phrases...game

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Does anybody know the origin of that phrase? Is that even correct? (A friend of mine thinks it's 'cut the muster')

[Fandango 1,439]

google is your friend

http://www.google.com/search?q=cut+the+mus...lient=firefox-a

[Nagishkaw 510]

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/cut-the-mustard.html

[one...two...tree 2,762]

google is your friend

http://www.google.com/search?q=cut+the+mus...lient=firefox-a

Check this out though....they really don't know the origin of the phrase.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/cut-the-mustard.html

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

a bit more choke and you would have started = Passing wind loudly in public (in Australia)

[one...two...tree 2,762]

a bit more choke and you would have started = Passing wind loudly in public (in Australia)

LOL...that ones good.

[brnidokiegurl 0]

heres one for cold temperatures

colder than a well digger's butt

This one is as good as 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey' -

Edited July 9, 2008 by brnidokiegurl

[one...two...tree 2,762]

heres one for cold temperatures

colder than a well digger's butt

This one is as good as 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey' -

LOL...I can see the origin of meaning in those.

How about:

Three sheets to the wind?

[Kathryn41 3,205]

ah, that is sailing terminology - sheets are the ropes that are used to haul the sails up and down - and if they are flapping in the wind, then the sail is also flapping and the boat is rolling all over the place and going nowhere , so 'three sheets to the wind' means 'drunk'.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

ah, that is sailing terminology - sheets are the ropes that are used to haul the sails up and down - and if they are flapping in the wind, then the sail is also flapping and the boat is rolling all over the place and going nowhere , so 'three sheets to the wind' means 'drunk'.

Yes!

[Muh and me 18]

another one for the weather is

"colder than a witches #######"

[one...two...tree 2,762]

another one for the weather is

"colder than a witches #######"

[brnidokiegurl 0]

Go and boil your head

Meaning

An insult, of the form go and do something bad for you. Other examples are, go and play in the traffic and the more recent, and vehement, eat sxxt and die.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

How about, letting the cat out of the bag?

[Truth be Told 0]

another one for the weather is

"colder than a witches #######"

The version I always heard was "colder than a witches ####### in a brass bra"