This question reminds me of an exercise my elementary school class did once. We were told to pick an idiom and draw it literally.
I don't remember what I picked, but my friend drew her mom's favorite saying, "You drive me up the wall!" I can still vividly see the drawing of a lady with her eyes bugging out, driving vertically up a living room wall.
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It's raining cats and dogs.
And you thought hail could be challenging..
I was caught in a massive rain storm in South Dakota once and it rained frogs
FROGS, EVERYTHING COVERED IN LITTLE FROGS
it was amazing and crazy and I also thought I was going mad
Seems like fish and frogs are the main types of animal rain
Fish: global, dozens of entries
Frogs/toads: global, dozen entries
Spiders: 3 entries, Australia, Brazil, Australia.
And just like that, Brazil is off my travel list
A bomb's gone off in Battersea.
(Stolen from mock the week.)
Pick someone's brain probably ranks quite high on psycho scale
"Well, fuck me runnin'." would certainly be........logistically challenging.
“Dick me dead and bury me pregnant” would cause some interesting situations
No! I swear they LITERALLY asked for it!
That's a new one for me.
He's really getting under my skin. I think I will go over there and give him a piece of my mind.
The full idiom of "speak of the devil and he doth appear" seems like it would be chaotic and bizarre.
Like, he would have just appeared for you.
Oh shit, and bow he's here.
Chaotic: Break a leg.
Bizarre: When life give you lemons...
Break a leg is what I thought first. A funny chaotic one would be “a soup sandwich”
…have a lemon party!
“Earworm”
Like, get it out, please.
That scene from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Keep your eyes peeled.
You wouldn't know ____ if it came up an bit you in the ass.
Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining.
Also, don’t blow smoke up my ass.
About that second one
I think I’m going to take a break from the internet for a while…
That link is going to stay blue.
Lend me your ear
This question reminds me of an exercise my elementary school class did once. We were told to pick an idiom and draw it literally.
I don't remember what I picked, but my friend drew her mom's favorite saying, "You drive me up the wall!" I can still vividly see the drawing of a lady with her eyes bugging out, driving vertically up a living room wall.
You'd never really get those ducks in a row, but it would be entertaining to watch you try.
"I'm so hungry, I could eat the ass out of a low flying duck." "Fuck me dead."
Might not be idioms, but they do put some weird images in to one's mind.
If you couldn’t understand anything unless you were literally standing underneath it.
Relevant xkcd (kind of)
Sataa kuin Esterin perseestä. (Finnish)
Rains as if it comes out from Eshter's arse.
As it means really heavy rain, it would render things pretty chaotic.
"It's like trying to herd cats."
Cat got your tongue?
Ooowww