“Throw me something, sister!” (Mardi Gras parade cry)
"Throw me something, mister!" is a popular cry of the Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana. Parade watchers want to receive throws of trinkets from the parade floats. The saying…
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“Throw money at a problem” (Washington reflex)
"Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then to throw money at it, hoping that somehow it will go away" said Kenneth Keating (1900-1975), the Republican senator from…
“Throw nickels like manhole covers” (stingy)
To "throw nickels like manhole covers" is not to throw nickels at all. (Manhole covers are heavy and are almsot impossible to throw.) The saying implies that a person is stingy with…
“Throw the book at him/her” (give the maximum penalty)
To legally "throw the book at" someone is to charge a person (if a prosecutor) or penalize a person (if a judge) very severely. The "book" is a law book, and the throwing is…
“Throw the rascals in!”
"Turn the rascals out" was a popular campaign slogan of 1872. Adlai Stevenson II (1900-1965) famously reversed the slogan when criticizing the Eisenhower administration in 1952.…
“Throw the rascals out!”
Entry in progress -- B.P. A modern jocular variant is "Throw the Rascals In!" Wikipedia: List of U.S. presidential campaign slogansTurn the Rascals Out - 1872 anti-Grant slogan against…
“Throw your hands in the air like you just don’t care”
"Put/Throw you hands in the air and wave them like you just don't care" isa common lric line in many songs. It's so common that there is a list: "100 Songs that contain the…
“Throwing acid is wrong—in some people’s eyes”
"Throwing acid is wrong -- in some people's eyes" is a jocular saying ("in some people's eyes" is an expression usually not meant to be taken literally) that has been…
“Throwing spaghetti against the wall”
"Like nailing jello/jelly to the wall" is a related expression that Theodore Roosevelt coined in 1912. TwitterSPXGODFATHER@RolfHaag3$SPX Option Traders: on an average day my cost of…
“Thursday—the most useless day of the week”
A saying about THursday has been printed on several ecards: "Thursday. The most useless day of the week. It only exists as a reminder that it's been a really long week, and it's…
“Thursday doesn’t even count as a day, It’s just the thing that’s blocking Friday”
"Thursday doesn't even count as a day, It's just the thing that's blocking Friday" is a jocular Thursday saying that has been printed on several images. The saying was…
“Thursdays are just wannabes. They wannabe Friday, but they’re not!”
"Thursdays are just wannabes. They wannabe Friday, but they're not" is a Thursday saying that has been printed on many images. Authorship probably comes from an image.…
“Tick taco” (tick tock + taco)
A clock is said to go "tick-tock." A clock riddle is: Q: What do Spanish clocks say?A: Tick taco. The "Spanish clock" joke was posted on Twitter on July 3, 2017. "Tick…
“Ticker tape ain’t spaghetti”
"Ticker tape ain't spaghetti," said Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947), the director general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, in March 1946. La Guardia…
“Ticketmaster be like: Concert ticket: $40 Venue fee: $21.32 Access fee: $18.32…”
Ticketmaster is known for its many fees added to the basic ticket price. A joke was posted on Twitter by Michael Harriot on December 1, 2021, and the tweet went viral (over 240,000 likes):…
“Ticketmaster implies the existence of Ticketcommander”
Ticketmaster s an American ticket sales and distribution company. There have been several jokes on the term "master." "Ticketmaster implies the existence of a Ticketsubmissive"…
“Ticketmaster implies the existence of Ticketslaves”
Ticketmaster s an American ticket sales and distribution company. There have been several jokes on the term "master." "Ticketmaster implies the existence of a Ticketsubmissive"…
“Ticketmaster implies the existence of Ticketsub”
Ticketmaster s an American ticket sales and distribution company. There have been several jokes on the term "master." "Ticketmaster implies the existence of a Ticketsubmissive"…
“Ticketmaster implies the existence of Ticketsubmissive”
Ticketmaster s an American ticket sales and distribution company. There have been several jokes on the term "master." "Ticketmaster implies the existence of a Ticketsubmissive"…
“Tidy desk, tidy mind”
"Tidy desk. tidy mind" is a popular saying, though not always an accurate one. "A tidy desk, he said, meant a tidy mind" was cited in print in 1948. A similar saying is “If a…