For some strange reason I am enormously tickled by the piece I blogged earlier about confused cliches, particularly the one about not upsetting the apple tart.
Our friend Petra (a onetime German) who is staying with us at the moment suggested a game she used to play in Germany where she would try to make a -reasonably coherent- saying out of two or three proverbs.
I fairly quickly got that message and (fresh from yesterdays blog) suggested
“You can put the horse in front of the apple tart but you cannot make it drink ”
Anyone out there think of any others?
Comments
Donal Moore
on February 28, 2010Don’t mention the wart!
Petra Kindler
on February 28, 2010You can’t have your cake and cry over spilled eggs without ending up a basket case.
Donal Moore
on February 28, 2010You can’t have your cake & Edith!
Petra
on March 3, 2010This is not the time to push the boat out with the bathwater.
Donal Moore
on March 4, 2010A leopard cannot change its shorts (with thanks to Terry Pratchett)
Donal Moore
on March 16, 2010It takes three to tango…
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