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look like the cat swallowed the canary 

to have a knowing and self-satisfied smile on one's face; to be pleased with oneself, often because one has done something which one knows was wrong but which was very enjoyable.
1. when the teacher came into the classroom, the students sat there looking like cats that swallowed the canaries
2. don't trust karen, she looks like the cat swallowed the canary...i know what you're up tp karen!!
: look like the cat swallowed the canary

there was an old lady who swallowed a fly

one of the darkest children's stories ever that ends every verse with the words "Perhaps She'll Die", with the exception of the very end where the old lady is finally dead
Guy 1: Did you hear how there was an old lady who swallowed a fly?
Guy 2: No what happened to her?
Guy 1: She died
Guy 2: Why did nobody help her?
Guy 1: She died after she ate the horse.
Guy 2: Wtf!

load that should have been swallowed

the ultimate loser. he/she has the uncanny knack of spectactularly fucking-up everything that is good in their lives - from 1st day at school to 1st kiss to 1st shag to 1st job to 1st marriage to 1st child's life to.....
you know who you are ;~) he's pissed and making an tit of himself again whilst his kids can't afford to wipe their arses - the man's a "load that should have been swallowed."

should have swallowed 

An unwanted pregnacy
Yep I am preggers. I should have swallowed

errmm.. what the scallop? 

A saying when you hear something very unfunny and offensive, or when your just confused maybe when you just want to shout out something random for no reason, other than showing your discomfort. This sentence is often used in cat videos on tiktok, especially with the other sentence "masala brother, he will be grounded into a fine dust, a fibrous powder"
Person 1: Shes such a b word!
Person 2: errmm.. what the scallop?
What the SCALLOP?!?
- Plankton, having seen the power of the Goofy Goober.
scallop by Random Task July 12, 2007