And then a God who really ought not to exist sticks out a great big hand and grabs me by the wrist

[venta]

Why do people say

"That'll go down like a lead balloon"

and mean that the thing in question will go down badly ?

Surely if there's anything a lead balloon will do extremely well, it's go down. Great ideas should be likened to lead balloons.

I propose the phrase

"That'll go down like a helium ferret"

instead.

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

It's useless as a teapot... particularly if you're a chocolate-hater who wants a cup of tea. If you described it as a chocolate novelty shape it'd be fine, but that's selling it quite differently.

I only became familiar with the phrase "chocolate teapot" relatively recently. Useless things in our house were always as much as use as a chocolate fireguard.

[marjory.livejournal.com]

'Chocolate novelty shape' just sounds oo-er to me.

Of course, that would be to me...