June 22, 2015, 05:33
KallehPhrases expressing irritation
At the very beginning of WC (in July of 2002!), I wrote about a phrase expressing irritation: "That dusts my doilies!" Last night at dinner someone said something expressing irritation that was even funnier: "That chaps my rear!"
Have you ever heard that? I had not. Any others that you can think of?
June 23, 2015, 18:36
BobHale... gets right up my nose (may be UK only)

June 23, 2015, 20:31
BobHaleAnd of course the coarser cousin to the above
...get on my tits.
Oddly an expression that I have only ever heard used by men.
June 28, 2015, 21:33
KallehSpeaking of tits, but addressing the cold and not irritation, I had a friend who used to say it was "colder than a witch's tit."
June 29, 2015, 05:38
<Proofreader>/7quote]colder than a witch's tit."[/quote]
My uncle's favorite (and it made no sense to me, although I was of an age where I would laugh uproariously when he said it)"colder than a frozen monkey's balls."
July 01, 2015, 06:00
Geoff"Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" is, or used to be, pretty common. I suspect it's fallen out of use due to the declining brass monkey population.
July 17, 2015, 21:06
KallehI am rereading "Exodus," which is good, but about 3 books in one. It also is not very complimentary of either "the Arabs" or "the British." At any rate, there was another "colder than" phrase that I hadn't heard, but I like: "It's colder than a well digger's ass out there."