October 29, 2008
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fun phrases for today
-hoist with one’s own petard
-hornswoggled
-in cahoots
-hoi polloiTry using them and report back, kthx
(p.s. i am reading vonnegut for the first time…i want to marry him despite his current living status! so it goes)
Comments (12)
i use “in cahoots” a lot. it’s a fun phrase to use and it rolls so nicely off the tongue.
Slaughterhouse Five was my first and only foray into Vonnegut. It’s pretty good, entertaining. He’s got this serious-yet-tongue-in-cheek thing going on that I aspire to emulate.
and “hoist with one’s own petard” sounds like something I could get in trouble for saying.
You mean his current NONliving status! The last time I saw him he was doing a Mastercard commercial… now I’m sad for two reasons today! Thanks a lot Natalia. lol
I say hoist by your own petard all of the time with the kids… they enjoy the pirateness of it all.
I’d LOVE to hear how someone will use hoi polli.
I am off to google what Vonnagut’s living conditions are…
I am discovering I am the last LOL holdout today and it is making me sad Natalia.
I used “festooned” yesterday in a business proposal that I was writing quickly. Somebody made fun of me within 20 minutes.
-hoi polloi is a favorite of mine.
i met a man from stanbul ?
who solliloquized thus to a tool ?
you took all my wealth ?
and ruined my health ?
and now u won’t _ _ _, you old fool !
at least that’s how i think it went…
i think vonne lost his fastball with timequake (?) and i might have read in an l.a. times obituary that he’s no longer with us
so it goes
ah the simple pleasures of the English language. =)
thank you
Yay! I love Kurt Vonnegut!
when i was at college parties, i always said i was hob nobbing with the hoi polloi. And I believe hoist by one’s own petard is from shakespeare. or family guy.
“Hoi polloi” is Greek “the common people.” And you should never say “the hoi polloi,” because hoi is the definite article in Greek. It’s like saying “the the common people.”
Okay, so I’m being a little pedantic. Edwin Newman would have written a much more lengthy discourse on the term.