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(thing) | by sfc | Wed Jun 21 2000 at 20:03:42 |
These are a collections of actual things that Professor David Farber has said. He says such strange things that his students have compiled into farberisms.
This isn't a complete list, BTW.
- A buck in the hand is worth two on the books.
- A dog under any other coat is still a dog.
- A hand in the bush is worth two anywhere else.
- A lot of these arguments are fetious.
- A lot of things are going to be bywashed.
- A lot of water has gone over the bridge since then.
- A problem swept under the table occasionally comes home to roost.
- A rocky road is easier to travel than a stone wall.
- A stop-gap measure is better than no gap at all.
- A whole hog is better than no hole at all.
- Abandon ship all you who enter here!
- After that, we'll break our gums on the computer.
- All the hills of beans in China don't matter.
- All the lemmings are coming home to roost.
- All you have to do is fill in the missing blanks.
- An avalanche is nipping at their heels.
- An enigma is only as good as it's bottom line.
- An ounce of prevention is better than pounding the table.
- Another day, a different dollar.
- Any kneecap of yours is a friend of mine.
- Anything he wants is a friend of mine.
- Are there any problems we haven't beat out to death?
- As long as somebody let the cat out of the bag, we might as well spell it correctly.
- At the end of every pot of gold, there's a rainbow.
- Before they made him they broke the mold.
- Beware a Trojan bearing a horse.
- By a streak of coincidence, it really happened.
- By the time we unlock the bandages, he will have gone down the drain.
- Cheapness doesn't come free.
- Clean up or fly right.
- Clean up your own can of worms!
- Come down off your charlie horse.
- Conceptual things are in the eye of the beholder.
- Dig yourself a hole and bury it.
- Do it now; don't dingle-dally over it.
- Do not fumble with a woman's logic.
- Does it joggle any bells?
- Don't bite the hand that stabs you in the back.
- Don't burn your bridges until you come to them.
- Don't cash in your chips until the shill is down.
- Don't cast a gander upon the water.
- Don't cast any dispersions.
- Don't cast doubts on troubled waters.
- Don't count your chickens until the barn door is closed.
- Don't criticize him for lack of inexperience.
- Don't cut off the limb you've got your neck strung out on.
- Don't do anything I wouldn't do standing up in a hammock.
- Don't eat with your mouth full.
- Don't get your eye out of joint.
- Don't jump off the gun.
- Don't jump off the handle.
- Don't jump on a ship that's going down in flames.
- Don't just stand there like a sitting duck.
- Don't lead them down the garden path and cut them off at the knees.
- Don't leave the nest that feeds you.
- Don't let the camels get their feet in the door.
- Don't look a gift horse in the face.
- Don't look a mixed bag in the mouth.
- Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
- Don't look for a gift in the horse's mouth.
- Don't make a molehill out of a can of beans.
- Don't make a tempest out of a teapot.
- Don't muddle the waters.
- Don't pull a panic button.
- Don't pull an enigma on me.
- Don't put all you irons on the fire in one pot.
- Don't rattle the boat.
- Don't rock the boat that feeds you.
- Don't roll up your nostrils at me.
- Don't strike any bells while the fire is hot.
- Don't talk to me with your clothes on.
- Don't talk with your mouth open.
- Don't throw the baby out with the dishwasher.
- Don't throw the dog's blanket over the horse's nose.
- Don't twiddle your knee-caps at me!
- Don't upset the apple pie.
- Dot your t's and cross your i's.
- Drop the other foot, for Christ's sake!
- Each of us sleazes by at our own pace.
- Erase that indelibly from your memory.
- Every cloud has a blue horizon.
- Every rainbow has a silver lining.
- Everything is going all bananas.
- Everything is ipso facto.
- Everything is mutually intertangled.
- Everything's all ruffled over.
- Fade out in a blaze of glory.
- Feather your den with somebody else's nest.
- Fellow alumni run thicker than water.
- Fish or get off the pot!
- Float off into several individual conferees.
- For all intents and purposes, the act is over.
- From here on up, it's down hill all the way.
- Gander your eye at that!
- Gee, it must have fallen into one of my cracks.
- Get off the stick and do something.
- Getting him to do anything is like pulling hen's teeth.
- Give him a project to get his teeth wet on.
- Give him a square shake.
- Give him an inch and he'll screw you.
- Give him enough rope and he will run away with it.
- Go fly your little red wagon somewhere else.
- Good grace is in the eye of the beholder.
- Good riddance aforethought.
- Half a worm is better than none.
- Hands were made before feet.
- Have it prepared under my signature.
- Have more discretion in the face of valor.
- Have the seeds we've sown fallen on deaf ears?
- Have we been cast a strange eye at?
- Have we gone too fast too far?
- He and his group are two different people.
- He came in on my own volition.
- He can't hack the other can of worms.
- He choked on his own craw.
- He deserves a well-rounded hand of applause.
- He disappeared from nowhere.
- He doesn't have the brain to rub two nickels together.
- He doesn't know which side his head is buttered on.
- He drinks like a sieve.
- He flipped his cork.
- He gave me a blanket check.
- He got taken right through the nose.
- He got up on his high heels.
- He grates me the wrong way.
- He has a dire need, actually it's half-dire, but he thinks it's double-dire.
- He has a marvelous way of extruding you.
- He has a very weak indigestion.
- He has a wool of steel.
- He has feet of molasses.
- He has his ass on the wrong end of his head.
- He has his crutches around her throat.
- He has his foot in the pie.
- He has his neck out on a limb.
- He has his pot in too many pies.
- He has the character of navel lint.
- He has the courage of a second-story man.
- He hit the nose right on the head.
- He is as dishonest as the day is long.
- He just sat there like a bump on a wart.
- He knows which side his pocketbook is buttered on.
- He knows which side of his bread his goose is buttered on.
- He may be the greatest piece of cheese that ever walked down the plank.
- He needs to get blown out of his water.
- He popped out of nowhere like a jack-in-the-bean-box.
- He pulled himself up on top of his own bootstraps.
- He rammed it down their ears.
- He reads memos with a fine tooth comb.
- He rules with an iron thumb.
- He said it thumb in cheek.
- He should be gracious for small favors.
- He smokes like a fish.
- He wants to get his nose wet in several areas.
- He was hoisted by a skyhook on his own petard!
- He was hoisted by his own canard.
- He was hung by his own bootstraps.
- He was left out on the lurch.
- He was putrefied with fright.
- He wears his finger on his sleeve.
- He would forget his head if it weren't screwed up.
- He'll get his neck in hot water.
- He'll grease any palm that will pat his ass.
- He's a bulldog in a china shop.
- He's a child progeny.
- He's a lion in a den of Daniels.
- He's a little clog in a big wheel.
- He's a shirking violet.
- He's a wolf in sheep's underwear.
- He's a young peeksqueek.
- He's as crazy as a bloody loon!
- He's as crazy as a fruitcake.
- He's as happy as a pig at high tide.
- He's as quick as an eyelash.
- He's bailing him out of the woods.
- He's been living off his laurels for years.
- He's being pruned for the job.
- He's being shifted from shuttle to cock.
- He's biting the shaft and getting the short end of the problem.
- He's breathing down my throat.
- He's casting a red herring on the face of the water.
- He's clam bait.
- He's cornered on all sides.
- He's faster than the naked eye.
- He's fuming at the seams.
- He's going to fall flat on his feet.
- He's got a rat's nest by the tail.
- He's got a tough axe to hoe.
- He's got four sheets in the wind.
- He's got his intentions crossed.
- He's got so much zap he can barely twitch.
- He's king bee.
- He's letting ground grow under his feet.
- He's like a wine glass in a storm.
- He's like sheep in a bullpen.
- He's lying through his britches.
- He's not breathing a muscle.
- He's off in a cloud of ``hearty heigh-ho Silver''.
- He's on the back of the pecking order.
- He's one of the world's greatest flamingo dancers.
- He's paying through the neck.
- He's procrastinating like a bandit.
- He's reached the crescent of his success.
- He's restoring order to chaos.
- He's running around like a bull with his head cut off.
- He's running around like a chicken with his ass cut off.
- He's running around with his chicken cut off.
- He's running from gamut to gamut.
- He's running off at the seams.
- He's salivating at the chops.
- He's seething at the teeth.
- He's sharp as a whip.
- He's singing a little off-keel.
- He's so far above me I can't reach his bootstraps.
- He's so mad he is spitting wooden nickels.
- He's somewhere down wind of the innuendo.
- He's spending a lot of brunt on the task.
- He's splitting up at the seams.
- He's the best programmer east of the Mason-Dixon line.
- He's the king of queens.
- He's the last straw on the camel's back to be called.
- He's too smart for his own bootstraps.
- He's tossing symbols around like a percussionist in a John Philip Sousa band.
- He's up a creek with his paddles leaking.
- He's within eyeshot of shore.
- Heads are rolling in the aisles.
- His eyeballs perked up.
- His position is not commiserate with his abilities.
- His feet have come home to roost.
- His foot is in his mouth up to his ear.
- His head's too big for his britches.
- History is just a repetition of the past.
- Hold your cool!
- I accept it with both barrels.
- I apologize on cringed knees.
- I came within a hair's breathe of it.
- I can do it with one eye tied behind me.
- I can remember everything -- I have a pornographic mind.
- I can't hum a straight tune.
- I case my ground very well before I jump into it.
- I come to you on bended bootstrap.
- I contributed to the charity of my cause.
- I could count it on the fingers of one thumb.
- I could tell you stories that would curdle your hair.
- I did it sitting flat on my back.
- I don't always play with a full house of cards.
- I don't know which dagger to clothe it in.
- I don't like the feel of this ball of wax.
- I don't want to be the pie that upset the applecart.
- I don't want to cast a pall on the water.
- I don't want to start hurdling profanity.
- I don't want to stick my hand in the mouth that's feeding me.
- I don't want to throw a wrench in the ointment.
- I enjoy his smiling continence.
- I flew it by ear.
- I got you by the nap of your neck.
- I guess I'd better get my duff on the road.
- I guess I'm putting all my birds in one pie.
- I guess that muddled the waters.
- I had her by the nap of the neck.
- I had to make a split decision.
- I had to scratch in the back recesses of my memory.
- I had to throw in the white flag.
- I have a green thumb up to my elbow.
- I have a rot-gut feeling about that.
- I have feedback on both sides of the coin.
- I have my neck hung out on an open line.
- I have no personal bones to grind about it.
- I have people crawling out of my ears.
- I have post-naval drip.
- I have reasonably zero desire to do it.
- I have the self-discipline of a mouse.
- I have to get my guts up.
- I have too many cooks in the pot already.
- I haven't bitten off an easy nut.
- I haven't gotten the knack down yet.
- I hear the handwriting on the wall.
- I heard it out of the corner of my eyes.
- I just pulled those out of the seat of my pants.
- I keep stubbing my shins.
- I know what we have to do to get our feet off the ground.
- I listen with a very critical eye.
- I looked at it with some askance.
- I march to a different kettle of fish.
- I only hear half of what I believe.
- I only hope your every wish is desired.
- I only mentioned it to give you another side of the horse.
- I only read it in snips and snabs.
- I owe you a great gratitude of thanks.
- I pulled my feet out from under my rug.
- I put all my marbles in one basket.
- I read the sign, but it went in one ear and out the other.
- I resent the insinuendoes.
- I rushed around like a chicken out of my head.
- I said it beneath my breath.
- I see several little worms raising their heads around the corner.
- I speak only with olive branches dripping from the corners of my mouth.
- I think I've committed a fore paw.
- I think he's gone over the bend.
- I think that we are making an out-and-out molehill of this issue.
- I think the real crux is the matter.
- I thought I'd fall out of my gourd.
- I want half a cake and eat it too.
- I want to embark upon your qualms.
- I want to get more fire into the iron.
- I want to get to know them on a face-to-name basis.
- I want to go into that at short length.
- I want to see him get a good hands-on feel.
- I was working my balls to the bone.
- I wish somebody could drop the other foot.
- I won't hang my laurels on it.
- I won't kick a gift horse in the mouth.
- I worked my toes to the bonenail.
- I would imagine he chafes a bit.
- I wouldn't give it to a wet dog.
- I wouldn't marry her with a twenty-foot pole.
- I wouldn't take him on a ten foot pole.
- I wouldn't want to be sitting in his shoes.
- I'd better get my horse on it's ass.
- I'd better jack up my bootstraps and get going.
- I'd have been bent out of shape like spades.
- I'd kill a dog to bite that man.
- I'd like to intersperse a comment.
- I'd like to put another foot into the pot.
- I'd like to strike while the inclination is hot.
- I'd rather be tight than right.
- I'll be ready just in case a windfall comes down the pike.
- I'll be there in the next foreseeable future.
- I'll be there with spades one.
- I'll bet there's one guy out in the woodwork.
- I'll descend on them to the bone.
- I'll fight him hand and nail.
- I'll hit him right between the teeth.
- I'll procrastinate when I get around to it.
- I'll reek the benefits.
- I'll see it when I believe it.
- I'll stay away from that like a 10-foot pole.
- I'll take a few pegs out of his sails.
- I'll take any warm body in a storm.
- I'm a mere fragment of my imagination.
- I'm all ravelled up.
- I'm basking in his shadow.
- I'm burning my bridges out from under me!
- I'm casting the dye on the face of the water.
- I'm collapsing around the seams.
- I'm creaking at the seams.
- I'm creaming off the top of my head.
- I'm deathly curious.
- I'm flapping at the gills.
- I'm going off tangentially.
- I'm going right out of my bonker.
- I'm going right over the bend.
- I'm going to cast my rocks to the wind.
- I'm going to down-peddle that aspect.
- I'm going to feel it out by the ear.
- I'm going to litigate it to the eyeballs.
- I'm going to put a little variety in your spice of life.
- I'm going to put my horn in.
- I'm going to read between your lines.
- I'm going to resolve it by ear.
- I'm going to scatter them like chaff before the wind.
- I'm going to scream right out of my gourd.
- I'm going to take my vendetta out on them.
- I'm going to take my venom out on you.
- I'm going to throw myself into the teeth of the gamut.
- I'm ground up to a high pitch.
- I'm having a hard time getting my handles around that one.
- I'm having a hard time getting my handles around that one.
- I'm in my reclining years.
- I'm in transit on that point.
- I'm listening with baited ears.
- I'm looking at it with a jaundiced ear.
- I'm not going to bail him out of his own juice.
- I'm not going to beat a dead horse to death.
- I'm not going to get side tracked onto a tangent.
- I'm not sure it's my bag of tea.
- I'm not sure we're all speaking from the same sheet of music.
- I'm not trying to grind anybody's axes.
- I'm out of my bloomin' loon.
- I'm over the hilt.
- I'm parked somewhere in the boondoggles.
- I'm pulling something over on you.
- I'm ready to go when the bell opens.
- I'm running around like a one-armed paper bandit.
- I'm signing my own death knell.
- I'm sitting on the edge of my ice.
- I'm smarting at the seams.
- I'm soaked to the teeth.
- I'm standing over your shoulder.
- I'm sticking my neck out on a ledge.
- I'm stone cold sane.
- I'm talking up a dead alley.
- I'm throwing those ideas to you off the top of my hat.
- I'm too uptight for my own bootstraps.
- I'm up a wrong alley.
- I'm up against a blind wall.
- I'm up to my earballs in garbage.
- I'm walking on cloud nine.
- I'm walking on thin water.
- I'm weighted down with baited breath.
- I'm willing to throw my two cents into the fire.
- I'm working my blood up into a fervor.
- I'm wound up like a cork.
- I'm your frontface in this matter.
- I've been burning the midnight hours.
- I've built enough fudge into that factor.
- I've got applicants up to the ears.
- I've got to put my duff to the grindstone.
- I've had it up to the hilt.
- I've had more girls than you've got hair between your teeth.
- I've milked that dead end for all it's worth.
- I've worked my shins to the bone.
- If Calvin Coolidge were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
- If anything, I bend over on the backwards side.
- If the onus fits, wear it.
- If the shoe fits, put it in your mouth.
- If the shoe is on the other foot, wear it.
- If there's no fire, don't make waves.
- If they do it there won't be a living orgasm left.
- If they do that, they'll be committing suicide for the rest of their lives.
- If they had to stand on their own two feet, they would have gone down the drain a long time ago.
- If we keep going this way, somebody is going to be left standing at the church with his pants on.
- If you ask him he could wax very quickly on that subject.
- If you don't want words put in your mouth, don't leave it hanging open.
- If you listen in the right tone of voice, you'll hear what I mean.
- If you see loose strings that have to be tied down that are not nailed up, see me about it.
- If you want something bad enough, you have to pay the price.
- If you want to be heard, go directly to the horse's ear.
- If you want to get your jollies off, watch this!
- If you'd let me, I'd forget the shirt off my back.
- If you're going to break a chicken, you have to scramble a few eggs.
- In one mouth and out the other.
- In this period of time, its getting very short.
- In this vein I will throw out another item for Pandoras' box.
- Indiscretion is the better part of valor.
- Is he an Amazon!
- Is there any place we can pull a chink out of the log jam?
- It cuts like a hot knife through solid rock.
- It drove me to no wits end.
- It fills a well-needed gap.
- It floated right to the bottom.
- It flows like water over the stream.
- It gets grained into you.
- It goes from one gamut to another.
- It goes from tippy top to tippy bottom.
- It goes in one era and out the other.
- It goes out one ear and in the other.
- It got left out in the lurch.
- It has more punch to the unch.
- It hit me to the core.
- It hit the epitome of it.
- It is better to have tried and failed than never to have failed at all.
- It leaks like a fish.
- It looks like it's going to go on ad infinitum for a while.
- It looks real enough to be artificial.
- It may seem incredulous, but it's true.
- It might break the straw that holds the camel's back.
- It might have been a figment of my illusion.
- It rolls off her back like a duck.
- It runs the full width of the totem pole.
- It sounds like roses to my ears.
- It sure hits the people between the head.
- It was a heart-rendering decision.
- It was a maelstrom around his neck.
- It was deja vu all over again.
- It was oozing right out of the lurches.
- It was really amazing to see the spectra of people there.
- It went through the palm of my shoe.
- It will spurn a lot of furious action.
- It will take a while to ravel down.
- It' not an easy thing to get your teeth around.
- It's a Byzantine thicket of quicksand.
- It's a caterpillar in pig's clothing.
- It's a fiat accompli.
- It's a fool's paradise wrapped in sheep's clothing.
- It's a hairy banana.
- It's a hairy can of worms.
- It's a home of contention.
- It's a lot like recumbent DNA.
- It's a lot of passed water under the bridge.
- It's a mare's nest in sheep's clothing.
- It's a mecca of people.
- It's a monkey wrench in your ointment.
- It's a new high in lows.
- It's a road of hard knocks.
- It's a sight for sore ears.
- It's a slap in the chaps.
- It's a tempest in a teacup.
- It's a terrible crutch to bear.
- It's a tough nut to hoe.
- It's a tough road to haul.
- It's a travesty to the human spirit.
- It's a typical case of alligator mouth and hummingbird ass.
- It's a useful ace in the pocket.
- It's a white elephant around my neck.
- It's a white herring.
- It's about 15 feet as the eye flies.
- It's about as satisfactory as falling off a log.
- It's all above and beyond board.
- It's all in knowing when to let a dead horse die.
- It's all water under the dam.
- It's always better to be safe than have your neck out on a limb.
- It's an ill wind that doesn't blow somebody.
- It's another millstone in the millpond of life.
- It's as easy as falling off a piece of cake.
- It's as easy as falling off a piece of cake.
- It's as flat as a door knob.
- It's as predictable as cherry pie.
- It's bouncing like a greased pig.
- It's burned to shreds.
- It's crumbling at the seams.
- It's enough to make you want to rot your socks.
- It's going to bog everybody up.
- It's going to fall on its ass from within.
- It's got all the bugs and whistles.
- It's hanging out like a sore tongue.
- It's like a greased pig in a wet blanket.
- It's like a knife through hot butter.
- It's like a raft on roller skates.
- It's like asking a man to stop eating in the middle of a starvation diet.
- It's like harnessing a hare to a tortoise.
- It's like pulling hen's teeth.
- It's like talking to a needle in a haystack.
- It's like the flood of the Hesperis.
- It's like trying to light a fire under a lead camel.
- It's like trying to squeeze blood out of a stone.
- It's more than the mind can boggle.
- It's music to your eyes.
- It's no chip off my clock.
- It's no skin off my stiff upper lip.
- It's no sweat off my nose.
- It's not an easy thing to get your teeth wet on.
- It's not completely an unblessed advantage.
- It's not his bag of tea.
- It's not my Diet of Worms.
- It's not my cup of pie.
- It's not really hide nor hair.
- It's one more cog in the wheel.
- It's perfect, but it will have to do.
- It's raining like a bandit.
- It's right on the tip of my head.
- It's sloppy mismanagement.
- It's so clean, you could drop a pin. Not attributed to Farber, but I like it.
- It's so unbelievable you wouldn't believe it.
- It's something you're all dying to wait for.
- It's the blind leading the deaf.
- It's the greatest little seaport in town.
- It's the old Paul Revere bit . . . one if by two and two if by one.
- It's the old chicken-in-the-egg problem.
- It's the other end of the kettle of fish.
- It's the straw that broke the ice.
- It's the the highest of the lows.
- It's the vilest smell I ever heard.
- It's time to take off our gloves and talk from the heart.
- It's under closed doors.
- It's within the pall of reason.
- It's wrought with problems.
- It's your ball of wax, you unravel it.
- Its coming down like buckets outside.
- Judas Proust!
- Just because it's there, you don't have to mount it.
- Just cut a thin slither of it.
- Just remember that, and then forget it.
- Keep the water as firm as possible until a fellow has his feet on the ground.
- Keep this under your vest.
- Keep your ear peeled!
- Keep your eyes geared to the situation.
- Keep your nose to the mark.
- Keep your nose to the plow.
- Lay a bugaboo to rest.
- Let he who casts the first stone cast it in concrete.
- Let him be rent from limb to limb.
- Let him fry in his own juice.
- Let it slip between the cracks.
- Let me clarify my fumbling.
- Let me feast your ears.
- Let me flame your fan.
- Let me say a word before I throw in the reins.
- Let me take you under my thumb.
- Let me throw a monkey into the wrench.
- Let me throw a monkey wrench in the ointment.
- Let sleeping uncertainties lie.
- Let them fry in their socks.
- Let them hang in their own juice.
- Let's bend a few lapels.
- Let's get down to brass facts.
- Let's go outside and commiserate with nature.
- Let's grab the initiative by the horns.
- Let's kick the bucket with a certain amount of daintiness.
- Let's kill two dogs with one bone.
- Let's look at it from the other side of the view.
- Let's lurch into the next hour of the show.
- Let's not drag any more dead herrings across the garden path.
- Let's not get ahead of the bandwagon.
- Let's not hurdle into too many puddles at once.
- Let's not open the skeleton in that closet.
- Let's play the other side of the coin.
- Let's put out a smeller.
- Let's raise our horizons.
- Let's roll up our elbows and get to work.
- Let's set up a straw vote and knock it down.
- Let's shoot holes at it.
- Let's skin another can of worms.
- Let's solve two problems with one bird.
- Let's strike the fire before the iron gets hot.
- Let's talk to the horse's mouth.
- Let's wreck havoc!
- Like the shoemaker's children, we have computers running out of our ears.
- Look at the camera and say `bird'.
- Look before you turn the other cheek.
- Man cannot eat by bread alone.
- May I inveigle on you?
- Men, women, and children first!
- My antipathy runneth over.
- My chicken house has come home to roost.
- My dog was pent up all day.
- My ebb is running low.
- My foot is going out of its mind.
- My head is twice its size.
- My mind is a vacuum of information.
- My mind slipped into another cog.
- My mind went blank and I had to wait until the dust cleared.
- My off-the-head reaction is negative.
- My steam is wearing down.
- My stomach gets all knotted up in rocks.
- My train of thought went out to lunch.
- Necessity is the invention of strange bedfellows.
- Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows.
- Never feed a hungry dog an empty loaf of bread.
- Never the twixt should change.
- No Californian will walk a mile if possible.
- No crumbs gather under his feet.
- No dust grows under her feet.
- No loaf is better than half a loaf at all.
- No moss grows on his stone.
- No one can predict the wheel of fortune as it falls.
- No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it.
- No rocks grow on Charlie.
- No sooner said, the better.
- Nobody could fill his socks.
- Nobody is going to give you the world in a saucer.
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