IDIOM OF THE DAY

[Prakhonchai Nick]

I think both Nobby and Sao baht are correct

"Gone fishing" is an English idiom that is used in reference to someone who is completely unaware of all that is going on in his or her immediate surroundings. The person described in this manner has checked out from reality and may be daydreaming of just simply ignorant of the people and things in the vicinity. In other cases, the term can be used to describe someone who has taken an opportunity to get away from the rigors of daily life. This expression first found footing in America in the 20th century and is taken from the signs commonly placed on local store windows indicating that the shopkeepers weren't around to do business.

[Nobby]

ring a bell
to seem familiar (We live in Walnut Creek.I don't know why that rings a bell.
Related vocabulary: have a familiar ring (to it)

Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003. Reproduced with permission.

[sao baht]

 

If the cap fits, wear it 

Meaning

If a description applies to you, then accept it.

[sao baht]

I think both Nobby and Sao baht are correct

"Gone fishing" is an English idiom that is used in reference to someone who is completely unaware of all that is going on in his or her immediate surroundings. The person described in this manner has checked out from reality and may be daydreaming of just simply ignorant of the people and things in the vicinity. In other cases, the term can be used to describe someone who has taken an opportunity to get away from the rigors of daily life. This expression first found footing in America in the 20th century and is taken from the signs commonly placed on local store windows indicating that the shopkeepers weren't around to do business.

Other means Nick 

1. A common slang term used for a sports team that has just been eliminated or never made the postseason. (mostly used in the NBA)

2.Crazy; having gone insane 

3.When you are sat on the shitter and the stool is still hanging out of your anus whilst touching the water

[rufusredtail]

BITE THE BULLET
face up to doing something difficult or unpleasant; stoically avoid showing fear or distress
i This phrase dates from the days before anaesthetics, when wounded soldiers were given a bullet or similar solid object to clench between their teeth when undergoing surgery.

[Prakhonchai Nick]

I think both Nobby and Sao baht are correct

"Gone fishing" is an English idiom that is used in reference to someone who is completely unaware of all that is going on in his or her immediate surroundings. The person described in this manner has checked out from reality and may be daydreaming of just simply ignorant of the people and things in the vicinity. In other cases, the term can be used to describe someone who has taken an opportunity to get away from the rigors of daily life. This expression first found footing in America in the 20th century and is taken from the signs commonly placed on local store windows indicating that the shopkeepers weren't around to do business.

Other means Nick 

1. A common slang term used for a sports team that has just been eliminated or never made the postseason. (mostly used in the NBA)

2.Crazy; having gone insane 

3.When you are sat on the shitter and the stool is still hanging out of your anus whilst touching the water

I was more than satisfied with your original and Nobby's explanations!

[rufusredtail]

BALD
as bald as a coot completely bald

I. The coot(Fulica atra) has a broad white shield extending up from the base of its bill, The history of the word  Bald is somewhat obscure, but analogies with other northern European language suggest a connection with the idea of ,having a white patch or streak, .

[rufusredtail]

CHIP
A chip on your shoulder a strong and usually long-standing inclination to feel resentful or aggrieved, often about a particular thing;a sense of inferiority characterized by a quickness to take offence.


i In 1830 the Long Telegraph described the practice which gave rise to this expression;  'When two churlish boys were determined to fight, a chip would be placed on the shoulder of one, and the other demanded to knock it off at his peril'

[Nobby]

spaz around
 
definitionin.
to waste time; to mess around. : You kids are always spazzing around. Why don't you get a job?
 

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.

[tommynew]

Mad as a hatter  (google it)

[Speros]

Mad as a hatter  (google it)

wasnt that from mercury poisoning from treating furs, thatswhat people who made hats went mad from?

[sao baht]

Brand spanking new

Meaning: A new or unused object.

Origin: This idiom originates from doctors spanking a newborn baby to make it cry to start breathing.

[rufusredtail]

MATILDA
waltz(or walk) Matilda carry a bundle of your personal possessions as you travel the roads . Australian

i The name Matilda was one of a number of names given to the swag or pack carried by a bushman in Australia. The expression was famously used by A. B. ('Banjo') Paterson (1864-1941) in his song 'Waltzing Matilda'.

[rufusredtail]

SWEET

sweet Fanny Adams absolutely nothing at all. informal

i Fanny Adams was the youthful victim in a famous murder case in 1867, her body being mutilated and cut to pieces by the killer. With gruesome black humour, her name came to be used as a slang term for a type of tinned meat or stew recently introduced to the Royal Navy; the current meaning developed early in the 20th century. sweet fanny adams is often abbreviated in speech to sweet FA, which is understood by many to be a euphemism for sweet x all.

[sao baht]

A pig in a poke

Meaning ....An offering or deal that is foolishly accepted without being examined first.


Origin

 'Don't buy a pig in a poke' might seem odd and archaic language. It's true that the phrase is very old, but actually it can be taken quite literally and remains good advice.

The advice being given is 'don't buy a pig until you have seen it'. This is enshrined in British commercial law as 'caveat emptor' - Latin for 'let the buyer beware'. This remains the guiding principle of commerce in many countries and, in essence, supports the view that if you buy something you take responsibility to make sure it is what you intended to buy.

A poke is a sack or bag. It has a French origin as 'poque' and, like several other French words, its diminutive is formed by adding 'ette' or 'et' - hence 'pocket' began life with the meaning 'small bag'. Poke is still in use in several English-speaking countries, notably Scotland and the USA, and describes just the sort of bag that would be useful for carrying a piglet to market.

A pig that's in a poke might turn out to be no pig at all. If a merchant tried to cheat by substituting a lower value animal, the trick could be uncovered by letting the cat out of the bag. Many other European languages have a version of this phrase - most of them translating into English as a warning not to 'buy a cat in a bag'. The advice has stood the test of time and people have been repeating it in one form or the other for getting on for five hundred years, maybe longer.

 Fraser's Magazine, 1858, reprinted a piece from Richard Hill's (or Hilles') Common-place Book, 1530, which gave this advice to market traders:

"When ye proffer the pigge open the poke."

John Heywood included something nearer to our modern-day version of the phrase in Proverbes and Epigrammes, 1555-60:

I will neuer bye the pyg in the poke :
 Thers many a foule pyg in a feyre cloke.