sandandfoam
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If you were considered to be as mad as a brush would you be insulted or chuffed?
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Mad as a brush. Compliment or insult?
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Rainbow Mage
Lib Democrat/Agnostic/Epicurean-ish/Buddhist-ish
I wouldn't mind, I'd probably laugh
sandandfoam
Veteran Member
I think I'd be chuffed
As insulted as if someone had accused me of being high as a toothpick. The nerve!
Insult that uses metaphor only really works if the metaphor is communicated.
sandandfoam
Veteran Member
As insulted as if someone had accused me of being high as a toothpick. The nerve!
Insult that uses metaphor only really works if the metaphor is communicated.
Do you use the expression mad as a brush in Canada?
I'd be all meh.
bain-druie
Tree-Hugger!
Not only have I never heard 'mad as a brush', but I've never heard 'chuffed' before either (though given the context I assume it means 'pleased').
They aren't cromulent words in the US.Not only have I never heard 'mad as a brush', but I've never heard 'chuffed' before either (though given the context I assume it means 'pleased').
"Brush" as in "bristly thing for painting" or "brush" as in "shrub"?
And "mad" as in "angry" or "mad" as in "crazy"?
Either way, exactly how is a brush mad?
Edit: there's not a march hare in the brush, is there? Then I might get it.
BTW - I just noticed that "brush" and "shrub" are anagrams of each other! It never occurred to me before.
I've never heard that expression here in Ontario. Maybe they use it down East - they kinda speak their own language over there.
sandandfoam
Veteran Member
Should I be relieved or concerned that we understand each other perfectly to the exclusion of our colonial cousins on the subject of madness?
kai
ragamuffin
Should I be relieved or concerned that we understand each other perfectly to the exclusion of our colonial cousins on the subject of madness?
leave them be, my father told me to never try and understand them and never try and make them understand us. for they are a breed apart and make no sense.
(1 frubal if any one recognizes the quote)
