Idioms & tongue twisters in English

Idioms & tongue twisters in English

This web has originated from my extreme love for English
Idioms & tongue twisters in English

Idioms & tongue twisters in English

This web has originated from my extreme love for English

tongue twisters-part four

412

They hatch fish at the state fish hatchery and sell hatched fish to the fish stick factory.

by Kevin Brown

 

413

In pine tar is. In oak none is. In mud eels are. In clay none is.

If read fast, it sounds like gibberish.

 

414

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sick sheep.

 

415

Thirty-six thick silk threads

 

416

Silly shoe-fly pie fans sell chilly shoe-fly pie pans.

 

417

Kantai can tie a tie. If Kantai can tie a tie,
why can't I tie a tie like Kantai can tie a tie.

 

418

The two-toed tree toad tried to tread where the three-toed tree toad trod.

 

419

Tricky Tristan tracked a trail of tiny turtles.
How many tiny turtles did Tricky Tristan track?
Tricky Tristan tracked twenty two tiny turtles;
that's how many tiny turtles tricky Tristan tracked.

 

420

Esau Wood saw a wood saw, saw wood, as no wood saw would saw wood. If Esau Wood saw a wood saw, saw wood, as no wood saw would saw wood, where is the wood saw witch would saw wood, as no wood saw would saw wood.

 

421

You're behaving like a babbling, bumbling band of baboons.

from Harry Potter

 

422

Iranian Uranium

 

423

Giddy kiddy goat,
Giddy kiddy goat,
Giddy, giddy, giddy, giddy, giddy, kiddy goat.

 

424

He wanted to desert his dessert in the desert!

 

425

If a Hottentot tot taught a Hottentot tot to talk before the tot would totter, ought the Hottentot tot be taught to say ought, or naught, or what ought to be taught the Hottentot tot? If to hoot and to toot a Hottentot tot be taught by a Hottentot tutor, should the tutor get hot if the Hottentot tot hoots and toots at the Hottentot tutor?

 

426

There was a writer called Wright, he taught his son to write Wright right:
"It's not right to write Wright 'Rite', please try to write Wright right!"

 

427

Very rare vagrant wader

a "vagrant wader" is a wading bird that is not typical to a particular region

 

428

Crash Quiche Course

 

429

I broke a brickbat and a brickbat broke me.

 

430

A wooden worm wouldn't be worthy of worship but would he if he wondered and worried about what he would be worthy of if he wasn't wooden?

by Samy Gosselin

 

431

Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.

 

432

Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.

 

433

Farrell's features fabulous food 'n' fantastic fountain fantasies for frolicking, fun-filled festive families.

 

434

Who holds Joe's nose when he blows? Joe knows.

 

435

A singly circularly linked list.

 

436

The Final Fixing of the Foolish Fugitive

Feeling footloose, fancy-free and frisky, this feather-brained fellow finagled his fond father into forking over his fortune. Forthwith, he fled for foreign fields and frittered his farthings feasting fabulously with fair-weather friends. Finally, fleeced by those folly filled fellows and facing famine, he found him-self a feed flinger in a filthy farm-lot. He fain would have filled his frame with foraged food from fodder fragments.

"Fooey! My father's flunkies fare far fancier," the frazzled fugitive fumed feverishly, frankly facing fact.

Frustrated from failure and filled with forebodings, he fled for his family. Falling at his father's feet, he floundered forlornly. "Father, I have flunked and fruitlessly forfeited further family favors . . ."

But the faithful father, forestalling further flinching, frantically flagged his flunkies to fetch forth the finest fatling and fix a feast.

But the fugitive's fault finding frater, faithfully farming his father's fields for free, frowned at this fickle forgiveness of former falderal. His fury flashed, but fussing was futile.

His foresighted father figured, "Such filial fidelity is fine, but what forbids fervent festivities? The fugitive is found! Unfurl the flags! With fanfare flaring, let fun, frolic and frivolity flow freely, former failures forgotten and folly forsaken."

Forgiveness forms a firm foundation for future fortitude.

(Sir John Hensch of London)

 

437

Thirty-three thousand feathers on a thrushes throat.

 

438

When I went to Warsaw, I saw a saw that could outsaw any saw that I ever saw. Now, if you go to Warsaw and see a saw that could outsaw the saw I saw, I'd like to see your saw saw.

 

439

If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice,
I’m perfectly practiced and practically perfect.

by Karen and Alyse Ferry

 

440

Six Czech cricket critics

 

441

Rubber Berber Gerber™ Burger

An ersatz North African taste treat ...

 

442

Lucid Lou slued loose the sluice that slew the slough.

 

443

In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire hurricanes hardly ever happen.

from My Fair Lady the musical based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion

 

444

Thomas Tattamus took two T's to tie two tots to two tall trees.

 

445

Hercules, a hardy hunter, hunted a hare in the Hampshire Hills. Hit him on the head with a hard, hard hammer and he howled horribly!

 

446

Frank's fisher fishes on Friday for Frank's Friday fresh fried fish-fest.

by Steven Combs

 

447

I saw a saw in Warsaw. Of all the saws I ever saw I never saw a saw that could saw, like the saw I saw in Warsaw.

 

448

Dick had a dog,
the dog dug,
the dog dug deep,
how deep did Dick's dog dig?

Dick had a duck,
the duck dived,
the duck dived deep,
how deep did Dick's duck dive?

Dick's duck dived as deep as Dick's dog dug!

by Alexandra Hunt (11 years old)

 

449

It's a nice night for a white rice fight.

 

450

If a fella met a fella in a field of fitches
Can a fella tell a fella where a fella itches?

 

451

I feel a feel a funny feel a funny feel feel I,
If I feel a funny feel a funny feel feel I.

 

452

Never trust
a sloppy crust,
a squally gust,
ships that rust,
or girls with lust.

But if you must,
you may trust
to go bust,
and back to dust,
which serves you just.

on board of a Victory Ship in the 1940s

 

453

A sad story about Nobody

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realised that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody, when Nobody did, what Anybody could have done.

 

454

Mr Knott and Mr Watt on the Phone

Hello?
Who's calling?
Watt.
What's your name?
Watt's my name.
Yes, what is your name?
My name is John Watt.
John what?
Yes.

... I'll call on you this afternoon.

All right, are you Jones?
No, I'm Knott.
Will you tell me your name, then?
Will Knott.
Why not?
My name is Knott.
Not what?
Not Watt. Knott.
What?

 

455

Round brown bread

the Indian bread "Roti"

 

456

grip glue, grip glue, grip glue, ...

 

457

Bob's pop-up blocker blocks Bob's pop-ups.

 

458

Chill, Shake, Serve, ...

 

459

M. R. Ducks
M.R. not Ducks
O. S. M. R.
L. I'll B.
M. R. Ducks!

 

460

How much cash could a sasquatch stash if a sasquatch could stash cash?

by Janet Cashman-Shipman and family

 

461

A cunning young canner from Canning
Once observed to his granny,
"A canner can can
a lot of things gran,
But a canner can't can a can, can he?"

 

462

How many ducks could a duck duct-tape, if a duck could duct-tape ducks?

 

463

Bad dead bed-bugs bleed bug blood.

by Mimi Routh

 

464

Upper roller, lower roller,
upper roller, lower roller,
upper roller, lower roller, ...

 

465

Bill had a billboard, Bill also had a board bill. The billboard bored Bill so Bill sold the billboard to pay for the board bill. 

 

466

Washington's wash woman washed Washington's wash while Washington's wife went west.

 

467

Faith's face cloth, Faith's face cloth, Faith's face cloth, ...

by Monica Holmes-Lauder

 

468

Deer, deer, oh dear, oh dear,
your career as a deer is over here
no, no, oh no, although
your career as a skellytun's begun.

The Roadkill Song

 

469

The sixth sick Sikh's sixth sheep is sick.

 

470

Click, clap, pluck, ...

 

471

Mister Twister's tongue twisters, ...

 

472

Hum-min-a, Hum-min-a, Hum-min-a, ...

sometimes said by Jackie Gleason in "The Honeymooners"

 

473

Mud bug, mud bug, mud bug, ...

 

474

Polish it in the corner. Polish it in the corner. Polish it in the corner. ...

 

475

I gratefully gazed at the gracefully grazing gazelles.

 

476

Really very weary, really very weary, really very weary, ...

 

477

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep 's sick.

variation of the famous tongue twister

 

478

Thrushcross Grange

the name of the Linton's house in "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë

 

479

Six sticky skeletons, six sticky skeletons, six sticky skeletons, ...

 

480

Sheila is selling her shop at the seashore
For shops at the seashore are so sure to lose
And she’s not so sure of what she should be selling
Should Sheila sell seashells or should she sell shoes

Danny Kaye song, arround 1930

 

481

A canner exceedingly canny,
One morning remarked to his granny,
A canner can can,
Anything that he can,
But a canner can't can a can; can he?

© Win Ivin

 

482

She sat upon a balcony, inimicably mimicking him hiccuping and amicably welcoming him in.

 

483

I can't believe that "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!" is actually a butter that I can't believe is not butter.

"I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!" is a butter substitute produced by Becel/Flora/Promise, a subsidiary of Unilever.

 

484

You name it, we claim it. If we can't get it, we'll send you to get it. If we can't send you to get it, forgit it. Who's got it, if we don't got it?

from the 1960's

 

485

If your Bob doesnt give our Bob that bob that your Bob owes our Bob, our Bob will give your Bob a bob in the eye.

 

486

V: Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
[carves V into poster on wall]
V: The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
[giggles]
V: Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.

from the screenplay of the movie "V for Vendetta", at the beginning, when V meets Evie for the first time

 

487

chip shop chips

 

488

Velvet Revolver
Velvet Revolver
Velvet Revolver
...

 

489

Shine my city shoes!

repeat really fast

 

490

Sniff Sesh! Sniff Sesh! Sniff Sesh!

a dog sniffing a blanket

 

491

The Knight said, "He's", with niceties, "some nights a tease or nice at ease on nice settees".

 

492

How much snus could a moose on the loose use
if a moose on the loose could use loose snus?

 

493

Black Rock Brain Lock

 

494

Which Witch snitched the Snitch Witch?
Or did the Snitch Witch snitch the Witch?
If the Snitch Witch snitched the Witch
then which Witch did the Snitch Witch snitch?

by Emily Green

 

495

A maid named Lady Marmalade
made mainly lard and lemonade.
M'lady lamely never made
a well-named, labelled marmalade.

 

496

Theodore Thistle threw three thorny thistles.
How many thorny thistles did Theodore Thistle throw?

 

497

Silly Sally Shouldnort shaved sheep she should show soon so selling sheep shaved showed she shouldn't show shaved sheep so soon.

by James Norton

 

498

Cracker rapper, cracker rapper, cracker rapper, ...

by Kazia Sarpola

 

499

Lenny Lou leopard led leprechauns leaping like lemmings.

by Brian & Grace McKeon

 

500

loyal royal lawyer