butter my butt and call me a biscuit
- idiom
- Informal
:
me sorprende
- Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit! I didn't expect that!
Examples
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Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit, you actually cleaned your room!
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Did she really win the lottery? Butter my butt and call me a biscuit!
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Butter my butt and call me a biscuit, I never expected them to finish on time!
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If this forecast is right for once, butter my butt and call me a biscuit!
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Butter my butt and call me a biscuit, I never expected them to finish on time!
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If this forecast is right for once, butter my butt and call me a biscuit!
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Did she really win the lottery? Butter my butt and call me a biscuit!
Synonyms
1
9.9
Tell someone you strongly refuse or do not believe them as a joke
To show strong surprise that you do not believe something
An informal rude phrase said to show surprise or not believe something
A strong phrase people say when they are very surprised or do not believe something
You say this when you are very surprised and do not believe something
An expression showing great surprise or disbelief
To tease someone by saying something that is not true as a joke
A rude British phrase that shows you strongly refuse a request or that you do not believe a claim
How Surprised
- NSFW
31
9.9
- Informal
- Archaic
8
2.6
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1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
butter + mine + butt + and + call + mee + a + biscuit
The phrase is a playful regional idiom whose literal components (butter, butt, call, biscuit) do not compose to convey surprise or disbelief in a predictable way. Its meaning is culturally specific and idiomatic, so a B1 learner who knows the individual words but has not encountered the expression would not infer the exclamatory sense.
Etymology
Butter my butt and call me a biscuit comes from a silly old American joke. Imagine being so surprised you would let someone butter your butt and call you a biscuit, a very silly and unlikely picture that shows you do not believe it. That's why people say it to show 'surprise' or 'disbelief'.