We're really up the river without a paddle. (http://www.theonion.com/content/news/idiom_shortage_leaves_nation_all)

in an unparalleled lingual crisis that now has the entire country six winks short of an icicle.

"This is an absolute oyster carnival," said Harvard University linguistics professor Dr. Howard Albright

:lol: Gotta love idioms.

Wow. Less than expected response. I expected posters to be chirping more than cicadas in August.

Well, you were really sniffing round the wrong synagogue, weren't you?

Well, the story wasn't really a bear in underpants either, now was it?

I'm getting out of this thread faster than a chunk of lard at a honeymoon orchestra.

Your mom is a chunk of lard at a honeymoon orchestra.

I'm more proud of that than a pistoleer with a winged cob of corn in December.

That was meaner than a drunk hippopotamus in drag.

You're all six politicians short of a conspiracy.

You shouldn't shoot polar bears in the sight of aggressive beavers.

Well, there's one for the ivory clock. :rolleyes:

Too many pliers spoil the cutlery.

o_0

What is whole this about?
Now I feel pretty stupid.

Don't make vain attempts to destroy sixteen indians. ;)

Maybe I'm filing the arrow shaft, but I think that creating even more idioms will only make politicians even more 7-key.

"The Onion" is a few french fries short of a Happy Meal.

The Onion is the best thing since self-lubricating lettuces.

Well, I've been to a World's Fair, a picnic and a rodeo and this is the darndest thread I've ever seen.

(not terribly original, I know--it's the lack of idioms in the US!)

@enkidu warrior: The Onion is better than a strawman made out of self-lubricating lettuce with a silver spoon up his butt.

@enkidu warrior: The Onion is better than a strawman made out of self-lubricating lettuce with a silver spoon up his butt.

I don't know if I'd go quite that far, but it certainly does thrash gall bladder.

Yes, those guys sure know how to slap a dead rooster.

There's a difference between an idiom and a simile/metaphor.

What's a metaphor?

To keep the cows in :D

This network of friends is a tangled web.

Yeah! We're more interconnected than a Siberian emu's emotional baggage in a haystack!