Why is a "slim chance" better than a "fat chance"?

[billyskank]

English is weird. :crazy:

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. fat meaning wide meaning "not happening outside the realm of possibilities

Slim meaning the margin is small and likely to occur.

But, I concur, billyskank...some phrases are like a dueling match.


Similar in the casual vernacular of "Big deal" often comes across as meaning "No big deal."

[quip]

6. With "Big deal"

one must include sarcasm to make it equal "no big deal"

:hi:

[trof]

2. and 'yeah, right' = 'not'

[Generic Brad]

3. Low-sodium chance. You never hear that one, do you?

[Quantess]

4. I know a guy named Chance. He's overweight.

[nomorenomore08]

5. That's blatant size discrimination!

:silly: :silly: :silly:

[Perry Logan]

7. Bloody ectomorphic propaganda

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. ''E used... sarcasm

'E knew all the tricks — dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. 'E was vicious."




Dinsdale!

[leeroysphitz]

9. Slim being literal, Fat being sarcastic. Don't be dense. Your people came

up with this excuse for a language... :)

[Haole Girl]

10. Agreed...

English is weird. Hey, wait a minute, didn't you all invent it?! lol