A few examples:
"I've got a sh*t-pot full of work to do."
"You're sh*tting me." (This one also falls in the category of an expression I don't understand.)
"All grown up and haired over."
I dislike overused catch phrases. My current pet peeve is:
"It is what it is." I always want to respond, "According to whom?"
I understand some phrases in context but I can't quite wrap my mind around them. For example:
"Love a duck."
"Puttin' on the dog."
"Painting the town."
The husband tells a story that occurred during his service in Vietnam. I'll botch it but here's the gist of it. A serviceman was determined to need a mental evaluation. Lots of weird behavior. The base psychiatrist or psychologist was a little harsh with the husband because he had mentally checked off "crazy" in his mind. Turns out, they agreed the guy was nutso. I don't remember all of his quirks but the one that sticks in my mind is that he loved to read the dictionary. I think he had read it three or four times.
God is funny. The husband also thinks I'm nutso. Plus, I am rarely without a dictionary within reach.
