Witty English Sayings Novels & Stories

Words/phrases and their meaning: * Wahala: trouble/problem * I dey tell you: honestly * This girl no gree free me: she won't let me be * Person wey wan loss before, them never loss already: whoever that should've gotten lost, would already be lost * But you dey sha show up on Matriculation day: you're showing up on Matriculation day, right? * I no sure like that: I'm not so sure

'Dikhti billi hai par daharti sher ki tarha hay ' (A saying in Hindi/Urdu) 'Looks like a cat but roars like a lion' "You?! What are you doing here" Aunty came downstairs and looked at me. "Assalamualaikum" I greeted her, so did she "Walaikumassalam" She smiled and patted my head. Haya eyed me from top to bottom, did I do something wrong?? "Why are you standing? Come sit" Aunty said and I sat on the couch while Aunty & Haya sat on the same couch.

As we perused the menu, placing our orders with the attentive waitress, Victor's playful nature began to shine through our conversation. He regaled me with amusing anecdotes, his quick wit and infectious laughter filling the air. I couldn't help but be drawn into his joyous energy, each of his funny remarks eliciting genuine laughter from me. "You know," Victor chuckled, leaning in slightly, "I once tried to cook a gourmet meal and ended up burning toast. It was quite a masterpiece of culinary disaster."

The butler looked at him with a strange expression, imitating the young people’s gaze as he peered at Robin: “Got it!” Robin rubbed his stomach, which still hurt from the fall, and said, "I'm really unlucky." The butler: "……" "Don’t say things like that. You should say that I’m really lucky!" Time flies, a day is so short. Don’t complain about being unlucky, the world won’t shut down for you. If you say you’re lucky, maybe tomorrow a wife will just drop from the sky."

This. “Oh, lucky you, he just warned you. And stupid of hell are you both, to not listen. First, in bloody hell, we never asked for your "help". You call that help? Both of you predominantly abased, abashed, gasconaded, and impertinently intermeddled to people's business. Secondly do you even know the phrase "friendly competition", where the word "equality" and "fun" lies? I have way more to list down everything I can ever think of something my friends got that is way more something to be boastful about. Go to school again. Learn to read dictionaries and thesauruses,” I said. “Oof roasted.” Levine, Hux, and Mich chuckled.

He started screaming annoying her more. "Tumhe toh mein aaj nahi chodungi!" She said running behind him as he kept calling her Laddoo. ( Today I won't leave you ) "Ladoo, itna gussa nahi karte!" He said and laughed looking at her red angry face. ( Laddoo, you shouldn’t be so much angry ) "Agar mein laddoo, toh tum hathi. Ek bada sa hathi." Adrita said glaring at him. ( If I am laddoo then you are an elephant. A big elephant! )

“Close. ‘Everything has an end, only the sausage has two’.” “What the hell?” Smiling, I tapped my thumb on the wheel. “Basically, it’s a rendition of ‘all good things must come to an end’.” “Except a sausage?” “Except the sausage.” She let out a breathy chuckle. “Because it has two. Got it. Damn, sometimes other languages have the weirdest sayings.” “I mean, the same could be said for us. We say ‘it’s raining cats and dogs’ or that we are ‘under the weather’. Trying to convey the same sentiment across different languages usually doesn’t hold the same understanding that we know.”

he says, looking at Melody and me. - Puff, and you? Was her mother a photocopier or what? - I try to joke but I end up laughing alone, her mother's comment has not gone down well with anyone and she stopped laughing because it really seems like a sensitive subject. In short, better mute who speaks than charlatan who silence. Something says the saying. "What saying?" Delia asks curiously. She is even precious when she gathers her eyebrows together without understanding what I am saying. I don't know, I just made it up.

He laughs but shuts up. “Ok, listen, while we are on the topic of quotes, I have some funny, sarcastic ones,” he says and opens his phone to read some. “Two wrongs, don’t make a right, take your parents as an example,” I laugh. I can use it on anyone who messes with my friends. “Tell me more,” I urge him. “Even people who are good for nothing can bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs,” I chuckle.

His ego didn’t seem to find my joke funny. “you seem to lose yourself to individuals a lot”. I didn’t know what it meant and I wasn’t going to let him bother me. The waiter brought in the order. “Bon appetite “. The word sounded funny coming from a full brown British guy, it made me chuckle unconsciously and that made Ansel mad he stood up without his coffee.