Choose Your Own Adventargh

Choose Your Own Adventure: from the original name of series of gamebooks, Choose Your Own Adventure.

argh: what a pirate says to express annoyance, dismay, embarrassment or frustration.

Choose Your Own Adventargh: what a pirate says to express annoyance, dismay, embarrassment or frustration about Choose Your Own Adventure.

"Choose Your Own Adventargh!" - says a pirate

by [e-mail] February 16, 2013

polish your own pedestal

To engage in excessively narcisisstic/vain speech or behavior.

When you polish your own pedestal, you do a fine job of letting the world know you think you're cooler than you are.

Thomas is normally a humble guy, but after a few drinks he really starts polishing his own pedestal about what a great Scrabble player he is.

by markolai April 7, 2013

bit their own toes off

Regretting a bad decision - making a wrong choice and regretting it later

They ordered our machine at work from a different company because it was cheaper, it's been nothing but trouble. Boy, they really bit their own toes off!

by Dr. HaHa April 14, 2014

hung by my own noose

When something backfires; when you forget a prank you did and it happens to you.

"Alas! I've been hung by my own noose!" Said Angle after she turned her sister's hairdryer on, forgetting she put flour in it previously and ended up looking like a fool.

by nerdettgirl May 10, 2014

shaking his own hand

A somewhat polite term for masturbation

"I opened up the bathroom door and Billy was in there, you know... shaking his own hand..."

by bigmacs November 30, 2013

pick up your own napkin

Picking up your own napkin is when you can contort yourself in order to suck your own genitalia. This often involves having a couple of your ribs surgically removed. It refers to when you drop your napkin at the dinner table & have to bend over & get it without getting out of your chair

If you can't get a date just stay home & pick up your own napkin!
I decided to just stay home tonight and pick up my own napkin
My wife walked in and I was picking up my own napkin

by Neddy100 December 16, 2013

Get on with your own knitting

An east Anglian English alternative for 'mind your own business'. Especially used by the older generation - and knitters.

Kevin: "Mate, you are making that pasta all wrong, you add pasta to sauce not sauce to pasta".
Derik: "Kevin, why don't get on with your own knitting unless you want to make dinner".

by TobEyEuz May 19, 2015