I’ve heard some quite good sayings relating to beating/being beaten by people in races in my time on this site. Being a non-American, I can’t help feeling there are others in common usage by my US cousins I could be making use of. Can anyone provide a saying interchangeable with, ‘Handing or having your ass handed to you’ or ‘being beaten or beating someone like a red-headed stepchild’?
I like to keep things fresh and feel I may be approaching my limit on the use of these two phrases. Help me look klevir.
Oldie but a goodie: “I had to open up a can of ‘Whoop-Ass!’” or “…then he decided to open up a can of ‘Whoop-Ass’ on me.”
When taking someone or being taken outside of your aerobic comfort zone: “I put him (He put me) in a ‘World of Hurt’!”
This is one I use frequently: “I got dropped like a bag o’ hammers.”
I can’t remember where I got the ‘bag o’ hammers’ from. One could easily replace ‘bag o’ hammers’ with ‘sack o’sh!t’ or anything heavy and/or undesirable. I like using ‘bag o’ hammers’ because who the hell carries a bag of hammers anyway??
i’ve been pimp-slapped, beaten like a drum, hammered into submission, dropped like second period French and had my lungs torn out
i’ve also used someone like a Kleenex, taken his/her will to live, beaten someone like an unfaithful dog, and salted the earth where he grew his vegetables.
i must now return to work as I’m busier than a cranberry salesman on Thanksgiving and can’t keep fu$%ing around on this website!
Then, there’s the ever popular “schooling” remarks:
“Get out your Big Chief tablet and a #2 pencil, 'cause you’re going to school”
“They call him the Bus Driver, 'cause he took everyone to school”
“I hope the recess bell rings soon, 'cause you’re getting schooled”
Other “non-school”:
“whipped like a tub o’ butter”
“dropped faster than sh*t through a goose”
I heard this one the other night watching Da’ Bears getting embarrassed on MNF
“They suck just like a porn queen on a casting couch” I’m not sure if that is a reference to quality or quantity of sucking. I also heard the following:
“they look like a deer on a city street” “They fell out of the ugly tree…and hit every branch on the way down” “are you gonna do something, or just keep playing with it?” and my favorite “Why don’t you just go home, eat a good meal, and grow some balls” (that can get a strong reaction sometimes).
I understand most of the sayings that have come up but I’m a bit puzzled about ‘being beaten or beating someone like a red-headed stepchild’.
Is it just a generic anti-ginger comment or something more?
I never understood why “like Sex on a stick” (English expression) meant something was good either. Just sounds painful to me.
Whip em like a yard dog… Or at least until they feel like hammered shit
Beat em like a drum
Got beat so bad I finished in another area code.
(Or the same with a time zone)
Kicked their ass so hard it hurt their teeth
After a long tough effort, I like to use the phrase “that’s going to leave a mark”, one of the guys that I train with likes " I put him in the hurt locker", and for a really really tough effort, I like to say “that did’nt leave a mark, that left a frickin dent”.