Descriptive phrases and expressions...

[werk]

I had a buddy that used to say "She ran through the ugly forest and got hit by every branch."

I figure it is derived from "Beat with the ugly stick."

EDIT: Doh, sorry Marley! Didn't see you alreadyhad that one up.


He also used to say that people with a lazy eye had "a bad lamp" which I think is a car reference.

 

[werk]

Couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag.

 

[Aurora]

"Can't act his way out of a cardboard box."

 

[kenobi65]

"Couldn't spell 'cat' if you spotted him the 'C' and the 'A'."

- Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson, flamboyant Dallas Cowboys linebacker, on Terry Bradshaw, at that point QB of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

(Though, time has shown that at least some of Bradshaw's persona seems to be for show; he's unlikely to have been as successful as he's been if he were really that dumb.)

 

[Aeson]

I heard someone say this one the other day. "sugar, honey and ice tea." of course we all know what the first letters spell out.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

"A plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a 'weasel'" from Blackadder gets used in meetings all the time.

Actually, Blackadder-style phrases seem to come up a lot amongst us.