My mother once said, "I got so mad that I had to make a metaphor to express it. Then I got so amused at the metaphor, that I forgot what I was mad about."
The metaphor: I was mad enough to eat nails without taking their heads off.
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My grandma had quite a few of her own... good memory.... :) one of her frequent ones was 'dumber than owl sh......' hee hee....
~Amy
I always say "daft as a brush", but what the brush has got to do with anything I don't know. Shows how daft I am.
Sylvia
http://journals.aol.co.uk/sylviam4000/JottingsfromtheSticks/
I love words! I love words!! xox
We sometimes say " as sick as a parrott " ! when someone is really fed up over something. The thing is I doubt the person saying it has ever seen a sick parrott in their life LOL Sandra x
When My mom got mad she mixed my sister and my name together...
When she did they you ran for the hillls:-)
Donna In TEXAS
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