leaks like a sieve 

phrase commonly used to say that something is leaking profusely when it is not supposed to leak at all. A sieve is a wire mesh or perforated metal utensil used for straining or sifting. Therefore anything that is leaking like a sieve is not holding water at all.

I have tons of water damage from the rain. My roof leaks like a sieve.

leaks like a sieve by Joe Sausage July 13, 2005

a memory like a sieve 

to be very forgetfull
Synonym: absent-minded, scatterbrained, scatty

You've got a memory like a sieve

a memory like a sieve by Alishahbaz May 14, 2010

tiger sieve 

a guy who is not a very good hockey goalie but excels like a tiger at volleyball.

Nicky:Dag, did you see Patrick let in that weak goal??
Roz:Yeah, but he is a tiger on the volleyball court.
Steve:Patrick is a true tiger sieve!

tiger sieve by madVBskillz June 19, 2007

leaks like a sieve 

This generally refers to something not being able to retain fluid. A sieve is a piece of wire mesh, used to strain larger objects from fluid. Similar to a colander or strainer.

My nose leaks like a sieve, because I am sick.

leaks like a sieve by whoaubuh111 December 10, 2010

Roman Sieve

The Roman Sieve is the act of shatting into a standard sieve, followed by forcefully placing the shat-filled sieve upon your partners head, in a manner such that the shat squeezes out in a ridge like the red horse hair crest of a roman Legionnaire's helm.

I used my mom's new colander to give my girl a Roman Sieve.

Roman Sieve by Mik N. Paul September 17, 2008

human sieve 

human (USUALLY women!) having to pee constantly! slowing down the 'show' to occupy a 'bowl'!!

wheres' t'neequa? -cuttin' her a piss! -that bitch is a human sieve!!

that judy is a human sieve!

human sieve by michael foolsley July 13, 2011

fence sieve 

Apparently A word or phrase considered in general to be bigoted, but claimed by its user to be a descriptive truth that is suppressed by political correctness. Sometimes used to just mean bigoted language in general.

I'm not exactly sure (because I cannot find a free copy of the entire originating article), but it seems to originally be an inside joke shared among people who have studied semantics, a phrase coined by then Institute of General Semantics executive director Steve Stockdale in a 2007 article entitled, "A Fence Sieve Language," which appears in the publication by the General Semantics Institute called, Calling Out the Symbol Rulers.

"Fence sieve" appears to be an ironic take on a quote from Aldous Huxley's 1963 article, "Culture and the Individual":

"A culture cannot be discriminatingly accepted, much less be modified, except by persons who have seen through it─by persons who have cut holes in the confining stockade of verbalized symbols and so are able to look at the world and, by reflection at themselves, in a relatively new and unprejudiced way."

"The post was deleted because it used fence sieve language."

fence sieve by Genepoz March 29, 2024