Take the bread out of the oven

A phrase used in the kitchen when you need to excuse yourself to go number two.

Cook: "Hey Chef, I need to run downstairs and take the bread out of the oven!"

Chef: "What the hell? We don't have an oven downst... ooooooh. Light a match when you're done."

by bblack1220 October 29, 2009

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Take the bullets out of the gun

When a man gets a vasectomy.

Bullets = Sperm.

A birth control pill for men, that's fair. It makes more sense to take the bullets out of the gun than to wear a bulletproof vest.

by spplutchok June 3, 2017

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Take the Mickey out of

This phrase is not new; the full phrase is "to take the Mickey (out of someone)"
Britons have been using this figure of speech for decades, if not centuries. A "Mickey" of course, is a "Mick": a pejorative, racist term for an Irishman (so nicknamed because so many Irish surnames begin with Mc- or Mac-) It is a common stereotype, in both the UK and USA, that Irish men have volatile tempers, like to brawl, and make good boxers. So, To "take the Mickey (out of someone)" means to take the fight, the vigor, the gravity, the self-importance out of them, by mocking them, usually in a very subtle way.

Headmaster: "...so I expect you boys to comport yourself with the full dignity befitting students of this establishment of secondary learning."

Student: "Oh yes, we will sir. We'll even wear our school blazers to bed."

Headmaster: "If I didn't know better, I'd think you were trying to take the Mickey out of me!"

by david lincoln brooks September 28, 2006

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