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Things you CANNOT do

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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 !

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CherryCezzy Sat 29-Aug-20 22:41:21

Hold back the tide

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Spangler Sat 29-Aug-20 22:51:40

Marydoll

I could eat a horse.

That was once a bigger remark: "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse between two bread vans."

You do not have an apple in your eye, and if you did, it wouldn't look like your beloved grand daughter.

You cannot zip your lip.

It will never rain cats & dogs.

And, believe me, pigs will never fly.

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Nana3 Sat 29-Aug-20 22:53:44

Pull the other one it's got bells on.

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CherryCezzy Sat 29-Aug-20 22:54:06

Smell the sunshine.

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Nana3 Sat 29-Aug-20 22:56:23

Make a mountain out of a molehill.

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CherryCezzy Sat 29-Aug-20 22:59:42

Eat your own words.

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Nana3 Sat 29-Aug-20 23:00:35

Coincidentally an add for Sky just came on saying, feast your eyes on this!!!

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LauraNorder Sat 29-Aug-20 23:03:46

I'll never be a monkey's uncle.

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Txquiltz Sat 29-Aug-20 23:14:51

Walk your legs off.

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geekesse Sat 29-Aug-20 23:15:36

It’s when people insist on using “literally” with any of the above that I get irritated. I remember my kids laughing loudly in church when the person preaching on Noah started his sermon “When I set out for church this morning it was literally raining cats and dogs...”

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CherryCezzy Sat 29-Aug-20 23:23:17

Turn on a sixpence.

Steal someone's thunder.

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Marydoll Sat 29-Aug-20 23:42:38

Blow your top?

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Marydoll Sat 29-Aug-20 23:43:58

Sweating buckets

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Marydoll Sat 29-Aug-20 23:45:16

I have my eye on you! ?

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CherryCezzy Sat 29-Aug-20 23:45:51

Walk on air.

Sleep on a washing line.

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Marydoll Sat 29-Aug-20 23:49:42

Drink the hair of the dog that bit you.

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Marydoll Sat 29-Aug-20 23:51:48

Playing with fire.

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Marydoll Sat 29-Aug-20 23:53:56

You cannot bite someone's head off unless you have a very big mouth ?

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Jangran99 Sat 29-Aug-20 23:56:16

Lend me an ear
Eat your heart out
Wear your heart on your sleeve

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Marydoll Sat 29-Aug-20 23:59:02

Jan how lovely to cross paths again! ☺️

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CherryCezzy Sat 29-Aug-20 23:59:05

Turn yourself inside out.

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Marydoll Sat 29-Aug-20 23:59:55

We are on a roll tonight Cherry!

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Spice101 Sun 30-Aug-20 00:19:39

To be pedantic (or am I being perverse) one could eat a horse or kill oneself laughing.

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maddyone Sun 30-Aug-20 00:49:39

Think outside the box (how do you do that? confused)

You cannot square the circle

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maddyone Sun 30-Aug-20 01:00:34

I’ve got eyes in the back of my head

When hell freezes over

I’m not as green as I’m cabbage looking

Like Piffy on a rock bun

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