Biting off more than you can chew...

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What are your favorite colloquialisms and turns of phrase? I'm partial to the one in the title. Playing devil's advocate is a good one too.

I'd also really like to hear translation of non-English phrases as well. Is schadenfreude party of a colloquialism in Germany?
 
I used to make fun of a libertarian friend for constantly using "picking up what I'm putting down" in debates.

But then I started to unironically use it myself, and now I try to find different ways of saying it, if you're catching what I'm throwing.
 
Okay, well, someone's gotta do it. It might as well be me.

I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake.
 
Using the phrase "running over the beck to fetch water" to mean "doing things the hard way" is doing things the hard way.
 
Today's mystery phrase, which I heard but never use myself, is "under the weather." The mystery isn't what it means. I know that. I'm just curious how this came to mean suffering an illness. I mean, pretty much everyone is under the weather. It's not like you can climb on top of it.
 
I am a 100% brilliant writer and never use cliches
 
Today's mystery phrase, which I heard but never use myself, is "under the weather." The mystery isn't what it means. I know that. I'm just curious how this came to mean suffering an illness. I mean, pretty much everyone is under the weather. It's not like you can climb on top of it.
Not up to going outside, in the weather?
 
nicht der hellste stern am himmel - not the brightest star in the sky

auf alten schiffen lernt man segeln - sailing is learned on old ships.. if you catch my drift

die sonne scheint mir aus dem arsch - sun's shining out of my rectum

geteiltes leid ist doppeltes leid - shared pain is doubled pain.. I made this one up myself

wer es hat zuerst gerochen, dem ist es aus dem loch gekrochen - whoever smelled it first, himself let out a burst

wieso rüpset und furzet ihr nicht, hat es euch nicht geschmecket? - why aren't thy burping and farting, did you not savor your meal?

stille wasser sind tief - silent waters run deep

der dümmste bauer hat die dicksten kartoffeln - the dumbest farmer has the biggest potatoes

unglück kommt selten allein - misfortune rarely comes alone

these are just some of my favorites. German is a great language for this.

I am a 100% brilliant writer and never use cliches

oxymoron
 
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