shaking the golden monkeys out of the tree

Kicking around a difficult to solve problem until a brilliant solution falls out

"Alysha has been moving them photoshop layers around on that design for ages"
"Yea she is shaking the golden monkeys out of the tree"

by MonkeyShaker September 10, 2013

The great palm tree incident of 2019

The trees turned out to be just trees. In the Taylor Swift fandom, February 25th and 26th will forever be marked as the series of days we all went a little bit more insane.

The great palm tree incident of 2019 has offered Miss Swift enough material to laugh at us for weeks. The end.

by Swiftie13_TS7 February 26, 2019

Can't see the forest through the trees.

This term means someone is so simple minded that they can't figure out the simplest problems. Their minds are like great big empty voids of any kind of logical thought. This is why even though the can see the trees their simple minds can't grasp that's the forest.

Ray : Did you see that guy trying to change his flat tire, it took him an at least an hour.

Tony :That guy can't see the forest through the trees.

by TV CAR March 29, 2010

Got the whole tree up your ass

Much like the definition of “stick up your ass,” this is used to describe a strict person - however, this version describes it to a rather extreme extent.

You people never let me do anything I want! Forget the stick... you’ve got the whole tree up your ass!

by BomberJacknut January 27, 2020

been hit with every branch of the ugly tree

some one so ugly that they look like they have been hit with every branch of the ugly tree as they fel out of it. so super ugly that their mother couldn't kiss them.

"man that guy has a face that looks like he's been hit with every branch of the ugly tree."(A really bad looking guy that you wouldnt let your worst enemy fuck!)

by samkim February 9, 2008

the asshole doesn't fall far from the tree

When a son/daughter is intolerable or unlikable, just like their father/mother.

The neighbor boy must be taking lessons from his father. He let his dog poop in our yard again," I said. "The asshole doesn't fall far from the tree.

by HOEL November 8, 2010

The cookie doesn't crumble far from the tree.

A saying by non-native English speakers who have literally no idea how our metaphors or idioms work. Bullshit nonsense that's probably the butt of a joke or something.

Person 1: Hey Sven, why weren't you at work yesterday?
Sven: That's the way the apple falls when the cookie doesn't crumble far from the tree.
Person 1: ...

by TheManFromV June 4, 2017