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Things you CANNOT do

(177 Posts)
phoenix Sat 29-Aug-20 21:05:32

Apart from the total abuse of "literally", you cannot:

Cry your eyes out

Scream the house down

Sob your heart out

Laugh your head off

Spew your guts up

I'm sure there are more, but I'm scrambling my brainwink) to think of them !

Marydoll Sat 29-Aug-20 21:10:13

Slpit your sides laughing

Charleygirl5 Sat 29-Aug-20 21:11:15

Like being every third word.

phoenix Sat 29-Aug-20 21:16:49

Oh Charleygirl you are SO right! A real bugbear of mine, although perhaps not quite fitting the theme.

Marydoll I'd forgotten that one!

downtoearth Sat 29-Aug-20 21:16:57

Talk the hind legs off a donkey

Charleygirl5 Sat 29-Aug-20 21:22:06

phoenix I think I must be a tad slow- I was returning to apologise because it dawned on me it was not part of the theme. Sorry.

phoenix Sat 29-Aug-20 21:23:38

Charleygirl your input is always welcome!

Charleygirl5 Sat 29-Aug-20 21:33:42

Walk to the end of the earth is another

Charleygirl5 Sat 29-Aug-20 21:37:21

Move heaven and earth

Charleygirl5 Sat 29-Aug-20 21:37:46

Have two left feet

Marydoll Sat 29-Aug-20 21:38:23

Bark up the wrong tree

Charleygirl5 Sat 29-Aug-20 21:40:53

Fly like a bird

Starblaze Sat 29-Aug-20 21:50:29

Laugh your arse off.

I tried and the extra lockdown few pounds which all went there won't shift.

My daughter says big bums are in now though

phoenix Sat 29-Aug-20 21:55:10

gringringrin

Lucca Sat 29-Aug-20 21:57:23

Paint the town red

Marydoll Sat 29-Aug-20 22:08:05

Work your socks off.

Marydoll Sat 29-Aug-20 22:09:00

Laugh on the other side of your face.

JuneRose Sat 29-Aug-20 22:13:11

Get knocked down by a feather

Marydoll Sat 29-Aug-20 22:19:04

My husband's offering:

Make an arse of yourself... he is so uncouth ?

Bring the house down.

Marydoll Sat 29-Aug-20 22:19:50

Burn your bridges

Marydoll Sat 29-Aug-20 22:22:03

I could eat a horse.

phoenix Sat 29-Aug-20 22:23:05

Lucca I suppose if you had enough paint, and it was a very small town, then you might, at a pinch, you might just be able to?

CherryCezzy Sat 29-Aug-20 22:24:10

Create a storm in a teacup.

Marydoll Sat 29-Aug-20 22:35:47

Tie yourself in knots

MissAdventure Sat 29-Aug-20 22:39:21

Kill yourself laughing.