Famous Idioms

" From the UK Met Office - It makes most sense where the weather systems are predominantly from the West and the weather is changeable. Welcome to the UK"
Most of my weather comes from the West...Thinking because i used to ride so much, always paid attention to the sky. You get caught without gear in a cold rainstorm, you tend to observe conditions more attentively after.

Birds of a feather flock together. ..self explanatory.

 

I always wondered what they did before weather radar...?

 

"Once in a blue moon."

"Kill two birds with one stone."

 

Maybe not famous, but pithy and accurate in any case.

USMC Colonel Jeff Copper: [SIZE=11pt]"Bushido is all very well in its way, but it is no match for a 30-06." [/SIZE]

 

I don't know if this is an Idiom, but it is sure true--''haste makes waste'''

 

"cat's meow" - a highly admired person or thing.


"thick as thieves" - very close and secretive.

and from www.word-detective.com

 

Cats meow- might refer to 1920's flapper girls. The skin gap from the top of her nylons and the bottom of her skirt was the cats meow.
"Originated as slang in the flapper culture of the 1920's. Began as a reference to a style of dress where the skirt length ended above the top of the stocking. The exposed skin was referred to as, The Cat's Meow. Think of the comic character Betty Boop from the same era. There were a number of gender-based phrases used by flappers as an inside joke in polite society...such as the eel's ankles, the snake's garters, and...the bee's knees. It eventually came to represent something 'desirable' and now means something great or outstanding."

Cats pajama's- might refer to something cool.

 

That's a new one OP.
Have heard ' she is built like a brick shithouse'. Meaning very shapely. Which doesn't make a lot of sense.
The phrase means- overbuilt.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2458/how-did-the-phrase-built-like-a-brick-shithouse-get-to-be-a-compliment

Nuttier than squirrel shit would be an apt idiom for crazy.

 

"Beer goggles" - Used to refer to the supposed influence of alcohol on one's visual perception, whereby one is visually attracted to people who would otherwise not be appealing.

And, of course, someone has done a study: New Study Discovers the Origin of Beer Goggles

 

I have a funny feeling that- rich men's jokes are always funny.
Sorry- trying to tickle your funny bone- so i'll cut the comedy.

 

edit
humour fail again

 

Well, it's definitely not an idiom.

 

The Dr should have slapped yer mum rather than ur ass...peace brother
Ok. Enough kidding here. Back to idioms.

 

Robert Frost's Proverb-
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
http://www.mamalisa.com/blog/robert-frosts-proverb-good-fences-make-good-neighbors/

 

4 used in Australia:

Beat around the bush...
Feeling under the weather...
Wouldn't be caught dead...
Hit the road...or frog and toad.