butter my butt and call me a biscuit
- idiom
- Informal
- 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
3
9.9
Tell someone you strongly refuse or do not believe them as a joke
3
9.9
An expression showing great surprise or disbelief
1
9.9
You say this when you are very surprised and do not believe something
1
9.9
A rude British phrase that shows you strongly refuse a request or that you do not believe a claim
1
9.5
To tease someone by saying something that is not true as a joke
1
9.9
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
How Surprised
- NSFW
50
9.9
- Informal
- Archaic
1
9.9
80
2.6
∞
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'.