If I am going to fully discuss the river plan, I am going to need as many puns and familiar phrases as possible. Unfortunately, most of the ones I know are negative... Please help. I know we can make a great list together.
Examples...
This thing is dead in the water.
The idea is all wet.
It is up the creek without a paddle.
Let's see if it sinks or swims.
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Originally posted by recyclemichael
If I am going to fully discuss the river plan, I am going to need as many puns and familiar phrases as possible. Unfortunately, most of the ones I know are negative... Please help. I know we can make a great list together.
Examples...
This thing is dead in the water.
The idea is all wet.
It is up the creek without a paddle.
Let's see if it sinks or swims.
whatever floats your boat... you should dive right in and test the water to see if anyone can quench your thirst for knowledge....
I'm thirsty. Can I have a glass of water?
What?
I really am thirsty.
It's all water under the bridge...
Sinking Fund
Swift undercurrent of pessimism
I would try not to dive right into this river plan without thinking it out thoroughly.
Because if we do, all interest may go down the drain.
dam it...
Some see the glass (river) as half-empty; others see it as half-full.
Sold down the river.
We will cross that river when we get to it.
Don't change horses mid-stream.
Water runs downhill.
Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.
To get "rivered" in Texas hold-em
Life Depends on Water
Tulsa - and a River Runs Through It
Let the River Unite Us, Not Divide Us
Go With the Flow
Water Makes Things Grow
Water Can Make Tulsa Grow (something like that)
Oklahoma City did It (and had to build a fake river)
The River can do More than Carry our Sewage to Arkansas
I seem to be getting off track. I'll post any good ones I think of. I tried...
Evian tastes on a Tulsa Tap Water budget. (they are the same, one just costs more)
River+tax receipts= "rivernue"
Tulsa told to hold its water...
A rising tide lifts all boats (as long as you have a boat in the water)
"Now that's some fine H2O"...the waterboy
Don't piss on my boot and tell me it's raining......
Let's not dampen Tulsa's future with mismanaged funds.
It's a long, tall, drink of water.
You can always "throw a wet rag" on the discussion.
If they give you any backtalk, tell them "beat it drip, you're all wet" That was always popular in elementry school.
And the winners are....?
Better get my waders....
As long as the sun shines and the rivers flow...
Not only are we loosing our property tax structure to Broken Arrow but now the river development plans shows we are losing the intelligent part of Tulsa's population with their "No Sale".
Or if some cannot understand it it means "We aren't buying any boloney today".
I plan to use all of them except for the last one. Shadows needs to get out in the sun a little.
It's all water under the dam with him.
I expect your witty turns of phrase will make quite a splash . . .
That is, unless the audience is a total wet blanket . . .
Always swim upstream of where the cows drink.
don't rain on our parade
scotch and water
something a terrorist prisoner never wants to say to his CIA captors, "Hey, could I get some water here?"
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Originally posted by recyclemichael
I plan to use all of them except for the last one. Shadows needs to get out in the sun a little.
It's all water under the dam with him.
Is there a city ordinance that requires lobbyist to register with the city secretary ?
"There's beauty in the silver singing river . . . ."
Bob Dylan
"It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river."
Abraham Lincoln
"Follow the river and you will find the sea."
French Proverb
"If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends."
John Enoch Powell
"Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean."
William Stafford
"Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways."
Edward de Bono (Francis Charles Publius)
Maltese Psychologist and Writer, leading authority in field of creative thinking
"One of the largest tributaries of the river of greatness is always the stream of adversity."
Cavett Robert
"If you're going to live by the river, make friends with the crocodile."
Indian Proverb
"Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known."
Winnie the Pooh
"Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem."
Rollo May
"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."
Kahlil Gibran
"If you dam a river it stagnates. Running water is beautiful water. So be a channel."
English Proverb
"You can never step into the same river; for new waters are always flowing on to you."
Heraclitus of Ephesus
"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it."
Norman Maclean
And my favorite of the day . . . .
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
Mark Twain