Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 07, 2024

I think Pig has made a new Expression!

I don’t know whether Pig is right or not, but I’d like to see someone try to put the horse back into the toothpaste.

Can you say that the toothpaste has left the barn?

You shouldn’t throw stones after you burn the bridge.

Depends on the size of the horse and the size of the toothpaste tube.

You can’t put the genie back in the barn.

Pig is not the sharpest bulb in the ocean.

I prefer mixed drinks.

The grass is always greener on the other side of the horse’s cart!

If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the glass house.

Don’t worry Pig, we’ll burn that bridge when we come to it.

You also can’t put the toothpaste back into the horse.

You can do it, Pig! Swing for the gold!

My favorite is from the TV show Angel. Harmony, the cheerleader turned vampire hearing Angel talking trash about her ex-boyfriend/sire Spike. “You’re preaching to the horse’s mouth.”

No, but you CAN give it pearly whites !!

Sounds like Crankshaft.

Pig’s not the sharpest hammer in the bag.

Pig is correct. Just not metaphorically.

That a meta joke eh Piggy.

people who live in a glass house have to answer the door

Pig’s putting the horse before the barn.

“You buttered your bread, now lie in it.”

And from The Little Rascals: “Birds of a feather throw stones together.“

It’s time to grab the bull by the tail, and face the situation.

The pig that brokes horsies back eh.

You’ll be published when pigs fly, Pig.

Pig bit off more than the cart before the horse.

Well, the horse is really in the toothpaste now!

Pig is a mix master.

A bird in hand is a friend indeed.

Thanks Stephan, I needed this.

If the horse was standing in a barn with fetlock deep toothpaste on the floor, if the horse then left the barn, and if you led the horse back into the barn, you could indeed put the horse back in the toothpaste.

Granted, it’s not a common expression, but Pig was being creative.

I was ate before I was nine

A bird in the hand is worth it’s weight in gold!

Pastis didn’t want to try “Put the toothpaste back in the horse”, for the imagery.