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Things you CANNOT do

(178 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 !

MiniMoon Sun 30-Aug-20 01:47:10

Be a monkey's uncle.
Cut off you nose to spite your face.

maddyone Sun 30-Aug-20 01:04:53

Pull your socks up even though I’m not wearing any

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

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

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

You cannot square the circle

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.

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

We are on a roll tonight Cherry!

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

Turn yourself inside out.

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

Jan how lovely to cross paths again! ☺️

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

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

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

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

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

Playing with fire.

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

Drink the hair of the dog that bit you.

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

Walk on air.

Sleep on a washing line.

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

I have my eye on you! ?

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

Sweating buckets

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

Blow your top?

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

Turn on a sixpence.

Steal someone's thunder.

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...”

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

Walk your legs off.

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

I'll never be a monkey's uncle.

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

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

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

Eat your own words.

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

Make a mountain out of a molehill.

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

Smell the sunshine.

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

Pull the other one it's got bells on.