Expression Expert Gifts

An English and French student converse.

Older woman explains how to see off men with one of her looks

I think he's saying that after losing his job, he was retrained as a street mime.

"You're all mouth and trousers you are."

"Thanks for walking a mile in my shoe but it's beginning to hurt now."

'Nurse, why is there always a fly in my ointment?'

A Hard Look At Hard Looks

Soldier armed with a pen.

The devil you know and his plus one

''Raining cats and dogs' is just a phrase, Alix.'

"It's great to see Biff; Socksie the cat is out of the bag..."

"It's an honest mistake I'm sure we'll never hear of again."

"I won't be in today, I'm feeling a little under the coffee table."

"Out with the old fish, in with the new."

The Devil's in the detail!

The Elephant in the Womb

Freedom of the press

'... Going once...going twice...aaaand--sold! To the gentleman in the front row for a thousand words.'

'You always talk about robbing Peter to pay Paul, but you never mention Mary.'

Coffee Menu

'Here's the good news. 'Happy camper' and 'are we having fun yet' have been added to the official list of banned cliches.'

'Let's cut right through to the heart of the matter.'

"You scratch my back, I'll scratch your is just a figure of speech, Ned. A little left, and higher."

"My mom is a vegetarian, so she doesn't bring home the bacon. She brings home kale and quinoa."

'I think you've put that in the wrong place.'

"I still have my loophole, but I can't drive a truck through it."

"Oh boy, by the way this guy is moving, we can assume he's got some of our friends in his pants..."

"The first rule of miming is you don't talk about miming."

Museum of Natural Cliches

"This is their 'Working Mother of Four' coffee special. They must know what I go through."

'No, no....You have it all wrong!'

Studying and technology

"You text LOL, but you have yet to actualize LOL..."

Censorship.

"I don't like the tone of your voice. Mind if I tweak it a bit?"