"Lead with your chin" and other fave fail expressions

[Charmonium]

Also, shoot yourself in the foot

i just woke up and can't think of any more

Take it away ATOT - da duh da da (playoff music)

 

[Captante]

"His little red choo-choo has gone chugging around the bend"



(Hawkeye Pierce)


"The craft experienced rapid unscheduled disassembly!"



(random SpaceX engineer)

 

[IronWing]

"Put you best foot forward."

It kind of makes sense as you won't risk damaging your best foot when you kick with the other foot.

 

[IronWing]

Bloom where you're planted.

 

[nakedfrog]

Parking the beef bus in tuna town.

Wait, I think that's something different...

 

[lxskllr]

Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

 

[IronWing]

When you're down and out
Lift up your head and shout…

 

[Charmonium]

Bloom where you're planted.

Never heard that one, but being very much a "home body," I very much like that one.

Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

YES! That's an all time fave.

 

[Captante]

 

[Charmonium]

Fai L - I think that's an obscure death cult. Not sure.

 

[Ken g6]

A book with a fail expression title that I'm sure has more of them inside.

 

[snoopy7548]

Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow?

 

[Charmonium]

this doesn't fit but it's a good one

On the hairy edge of civility

 

[esquared]

Remember this well-known aphorism from Mom.

 

[sandorski]

Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow?

I like to think Marcus Aurelius said this. At least that's how I have lived.....

 

[MrSquished]

Pull yourself up by your boot straps is probably the most classic. It was originally coined to poke fun at that exact concept and now people use it seriously to describe the concept it was parodying before.