Sleight of Hand - Page 10

fredfam1 · 02-21-2008, 10:47 PM

This is from my Ten year old daughter. She says this is a phrase from history that when it is said now means, I must do what I need to do and face the consequences.

Sign: Freedom
Sign: Or
Sign: Die

Chase · 02-22-2008, 03:28 PM

New Hampshire's state motto or the subtitle of the latest Die Hard film?

"Live free or die!"

fredfam1 · 02-22-2008, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Chase

New Hampshire's state motto or the subtitle of the latest Die Hard film?

"Live free or die!"

Chase I'm going to give you this one cause I should have told my daughter to add, Sign: give me , at the begining of this. It was supposed to be, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death. Can you guess the one before it?

Chase · 02-22-2008, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by fredfam1

I'm just bursting with these! So now you guys are gonna have to work harder before I explode!

Another Homonym Joke This is a hard one!

Sign bug then point to the bug and sign pain, pain, pain.

Meaning: an English idiom, two words that means a female person that you write to, in order to pour out your personal woes and problems, in the hopes that she can give you some advice that will help.

Does this have anything to do with the old advice columns in newspapers, like "Dear Abby" and "Ann Landers"? My grandmother used to call them "aunt agony" letters.

fredfam1 · 02-22-2008, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Chase

Does this have anything to do with the old advice columns in newspapers, like "Dear Abby" and "Ann Landers"? My grandmother used to call them "aunt agony" letters.

Correct!

Agony Aunt or Agony Ant(for bug)

Your turn!

Chase · 02-22-2008, 05:54 PM

This three-word idiom means to go to bed.

1. The closed right fist strikes the open left palm with force.

2. In ASL, the second word is not signed.

3. Right palm toward the neck, the open fingers of the right hand move up past the chin, lips, and nose. Repeat the sign, as for growing grass.

fredfam1 · 02-22-2008, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Chase

This three-word idiom means to go to bed.

1. The closed right fist strikes the open left palm with force.

2. In ASL, the second word is not signed.

3. Right palm toward the neck, the open fingers of the right hand move up past the chin, lips, and nose. Repeat the sign, as for growing grass.

HIT THE HAY!

Chase · 02-22-2008, 06:24 PM

You got it, and your turn to go for it.

fredfam1 · 02-22-2008, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by fredfam1

HIT THE HAY!

OK my 12 year old son came up with this one.

Make a closed O fist over the left side of your chest and tap there repeatedly as in the sign for consuming food. Then point to another person.

English idom that means: "I want you to be extremely jealous of my accomplishments"

fredfam1 · 02-22-2008, 11:38 PM

Oh no! I promised each of my kids if they came up with an idiom for me to post here that I would put it up and tell which one of them did it. But I didn't count on my little 7 year old inventing one of his own! I promised to post it. Oh well.

Sign: That, and point to anything.
Sign: More and Huge
Sign: Plumber
Sign: Break
Meaning: Something that is of a greater size than this thing that is being signed about.
Hint: One of his Uncles is a Plumber and the Uncles make these kinds of jokes when the women are not present. (sigh) This idiom was just invented by my 7 year old son. See if you can guess it. :smile:

I swear he made this up on his own! I stared at him for several minutes with my mouth open.

Chase · 02-23-2008, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by fredfam1

OK my 12 year old son came up with this one.

Make a closed O fist over the left side of your chest and tap there repeatedly as in the sign for consuming food. Then point to another person.

English idom that means: "I want you to be extremely jealous of my accomplishments"

This idiom is "Eat your heart out."

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Originally Posted by fredfam1

Oh no! I promised each of my kids if they came up with an idiom for me to post here that I would put it up and tell which one of them did it. But I didn't count on my little 7 year old inventing one of his own! I promised to post it. Oh well.

Sign: That, and point to anything.
Sign: More and Huge
Sign: Plumber
Sign: Break
Meaning: Something that is of a greater size than this thing that is being signed about.
Hint: One of his Uncles is a Plumber and the Uncles make these kinds of jokes when the women are not present. (sigh) This idiom was just invented by my 7 year old son. See if you can guess it. :smile:

I swear he made this up on his own! I stared at him for several minutes with my mouth open.

Wow, two idioms in a row to guess and a "made-up" one at that. This is getting way too hard.

The only answer all the clues suggest is the old army term, "blivit," which is ten pounds of excrement in a five-pound bag.

fredfam1 · 02-23-2008, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Chase

This idiom is "Eat your heart out."

Wow, two idioms in a row to guess and a "made-up" one at that. This is getting way too hard.

The only answer all the clues suggest is the old army term, "blivit," which is ten pounds of excrement in a five-pound bag.

Ok I admit a made up one is too hard, especially when thinking about 7 year old boy humor! Here is the idiom he made up....

That is bigger than a plumbers crack!

fredfam1 · 02-23-2008, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Chase

This idiom is "Eat your heart out."

Wow, two idioms in a row to guess and a "made-up" one at that. This is getting way too hard.

The only answer all the clues suggest is the old army term, "blivit," which is ten pounds of excrement in a five-pound bag.

Eat your heart out is correct!

Chase · 02-24-2008, 12:39 AM

This four-word idiom means someone is gossiping about me or discussing me.

1. Press the right open hand, fingers extended and joined, flat against your upper chest for the personal possessive.

2. Place yiur right index finger on your upper ear where it joins the head and trace a “C” around and down to the earlobe. You might place both index fingers to both ears for plural.

3. In ASL, this word isn’t signed, but in SEE the sign is R fingers to the chin and then out a few inches.

4. Wave the fingers of both hands in front of your chest, palms towards you, for “flames.”

fredfam1 · 02-24-2008, 10:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chase

This four-word idiom means someone is gossiping about me or discussing me.

1. Press the right open hand, fingers extended and joined, flat against your upper chest for the personal possessive.

2. Place yiur right index finger on your upper ear where it joins the head and trace a “C” around and down to the earlobe. You might place both index fingers to both ears for plural.

3. In ASL, this word isn’t signed, but in SEE the sign is R fingers to the chin and then out a few inches.

4. Wave the fingers of both hands in front of your chest, palms towards you, for “flames.”

My Ears Are Burning!

Chase · 02-24-2008, 10:03 AM

"My ears are burning" is 100% correct.

fredfam1 · 02-24-2008, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Chase

"My ears are burning" is 100% correct.

Sign: cradling infant in your arms
Sign: exploded
Sign: person

Meaning: people born in this specific time period: after 1945

Handsome_Smiley · 02-24-2008, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by fredfam1

Sign: cradling infant in your arms
Sign: exploded
Sign: person

Meaning: people born in this specific time period: after 1945

Baby Boomer

fredfam1 · 02-24-2008, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Handsome_Smiley

Baby Boomer

You got it Handsome! Your turn!

Handsome_Smiley · 02-25-2008, 12:50 AM

Going to do two. One, everyone should know, and another that probably only military knows.

1:

Sign "I" "Give to group of people" "little" "they" "take" "alot"

Means: more I help, the more they depend on me.

2:

Sign "Go" "Find" "Chemical" "Light" "Battery"

Means: A joke we play on a new soldier just to waste their time and get them smoked.

Brother_Trucker · 02-25-2008, 02:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Handsome_Smiley

Going to do two. One, everyone should know, and another that probably only military knows.

1:

Sign "I" "Give to group of people" "little" "they" "take" "alot"

Means: more I help, the more they depend on me.

2:

Sign "Go" "Find" "Chemical" "Light" "Battery"

Means: A joke we play on a new soldier just to waste their time and get them smoked.

Oh I know the answer... oh wait... no......yeah I got it....nope I didn't get it... I gave up!!!! My brain hurts.... this game too advanced for me....sorry....... I tried....

fredfam1 · 02-25-2008, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Brother_Trucker

Oh I know the answer... oh wait... no......yeah I got it....nope I didn't get it... I gave up!!!! My brain hurts.... this game too advanced for me....sorry....... I tried....

oh come on! You can do the first one! Here I'll give you the first half, then you finish it. (No one else try this one please, Brother has tried and needs a booste)

OK here is the first part of number one... "Give them an inch and....." OK! Brother! Finish That Idiom! Go! Go! You can do it!

fredfam1 · 02-25-2008, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Handsome_Smiley

Going to do two. One, everyone should know, and another that probably only military knows.

1:

Sign "I" "Give to group of people" "little" "they" "take" "alot"

Means: more I help, the more they depend on me.

2:

Sign "Go" "Find" "Chemical" "Light" "Battery"

Means: A joke we play on a new soldier just to waste their time and get them smoked.

Ok, I don't think I've heard this one, but I bet it's just like the one that we used to do to newbies when fixing helicopters. We used to tell newbies to go find some "prop wash". That was supposed to be a special liqued to wash the propellers. The poor newbie would be looking all over for prop wash, when all he needed to get was soap and water. Sometimes they ended up looking for over an hour befor someone had mercy on them what to get.

Handsome_Smiley · 02-25-2008, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by fredfam1

Ok, I don't think I've heard this one, but I bet it's just like the one that we used to do to newbies when fixing helicopters. We used to tell newbies to go find some "prop wash". That was supposed to be a special liqued to wash the propellers. The poor newbie would be looking all over for prop wash, when all he needed to get was soap and water. Sometimes they ended up looking for over an hour befor someone had mercy on them what to get.

Kinda like it. Tell them go get some chem-lite batteries. Of cousre, they don't need batteries, they run off of Chemicals. Now-a-days, they come with batteries now.

Other one is the Prick Echo 7 or the exhaust sample on a truck. Other one is soft spots on the tracks.

Chase · 02-25-2008, 12:42 PM

Um . . . are we off track a bit? Aren't English idioms terms or phrases fairly well-known among English-speaking people? As fun as army jargon is, lots of it is totally misunderstood in a civilian world.

For example: back in the days I had to wear OD, a "section 8" was a crazy soldier needing a psychiatric discharge.

Nowadays, old army attire is high fashion, and "section 8" is a housing authority rule granting rent subsistance.

Just wondering if Brother Trucker isn't right and this is getting too tricky?

fredfam1 · 02-25-2008, 02:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chase

Um . . . are we off track a bit? Aren't English idioms terms or phrases fairly well-known among English-speaking people? As fun as army jargon is, lots of it is totally misunderstood in a civilian world.

For example: back in the days I had to wear OD, a "section 8" was a crazy soldier needing a psychiatric discharge.

Nowadays, old army attire is high fashion, and "section 8" is a housing authority rule granting rent subsistance.

Just wondering if Brother Trucker isn't right and this is getting too tricky?

Yep you are right! Back to English idioms. I told you people spent most of my life keeping my on track! If I was a train it would be one of those little ones that runs on no track and switches direction with each new bump!

Ok lets try an English idiom again.

Sign: Spirit (as in creature not of this world)
Sign: maybe

Meaning: have no hope whatsoe

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fredfam1 Cathe Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Oregon Posts: 765	This is from my Ten year old daughter. She says this is a phrase from history that when it is said now means, I must do what I need to do and face the consequences. Sign: Freedom Sign: Or Sign: Die __________________ http://mommasarmyboots.wordpress.com/

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fredfam1 Cathe Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Oregon Posts: 765	Oh no! I promised each of my kids if they came up with an idiom for me to post here that I would put it up and tell which one of them did it. But I didn't count on my little 7 year old inventing one of his own! I promised to post it. Oh well. Sign: That, and point to anything. Sign: More and Huge Sign: Plumber Sign: Break Meaning: Something that is of a greater size than this thing that is being signed about. Hint: One of his Uncles is a Plumber and the Uncles make these kinds of jokes when the women are not present. (sigh) This idiom was just invented by my 7 year old son. See if you can guess it. :smile: I swear he made this up on his own! I stared at him for several minutes with my mouth open. __________________ http://mommasarmyboots.wordpress.com/

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02-22-2008, 03:28 PM	#272 (permalink)
Chase Retired on ex-mod pension Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Albany, Oregon Posts: 2,066	New Hampshire's state motto or the subtitle of the latest Die Hard film? "Live free or die!"

02-22-2008, 05:54 PM	#276 (permalink)
Chase Retired on ex-mod pension Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Albany, Oregon Posts: 2,066	This three-word idiom means to go to bed. 1. The closed right fist strikes the open left palm with force. 2. In ASL, the second word is not signed. 3. Right palm toward the neck, the open fingers of the right hand move up past the chin, lips, and nose. Repeat the sign, as for growing grass.

02-22-2008, 06:24 PM	#278 (permalink)
Chase Retired on ex-mod pension Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Albany, Oregon Posts: 2,066	You got it, and your turn to go for it.

02-24-2008, 12:39 AM	#284 (permalink)
Chase Retired on ex-mod pension Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Albany, Oregon Posts: 2,066	This four-word idiom means someone is gossiping about me or discussing me. 1. Press the right open hand, fingers extended and joined, flat against your upper chest for the personal possessive. 2. Place yiur right index finger on your upper ear where it joins the head and trace a “C” around and down to the earlobe. You might place both index fingers to both ears for plural. 3. In ASL, this word isn’t signed, but in SEE the sign is R fingers to the chin and then out a few inches. 4. Wave the fingers of both hands in front of your chest, palms towards you, for “flames.”

02-24-2008, 10:03 AM	#286 (permalink)
Chase Retired on ex-mod pension Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Albany, Oregon Posts: 2,066	"My ears are burning" is 100% correct.

02-25-2008, 12:42 PM	#295 (permalink)
Chase Retired on ex-mod pension Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Albany, Oregon Posts: 2,066	Um . . . are we off track a bit? Aren't English idioms terms or phrases fairly well-known among English-speaking people? As fun as army jargon is, lots of it is totally misunderstood in a civilian world. For example: back in the days I had to wear OD, a "section 8" was a crazy soldier needing a psychiatric discharge. Nowadays, old army attire is high fashion, and "section 8" is a housing authority rule granting rent subsistance. Just wondering if Brother Trucker isn't right and this is getting too tricky?