While the parrot cage one is obvious (when explained perhaps), can't say it's one I've ever heard before. I like unusual words and phrases a lot though. I note them down as I come across them, and either just enjoy reading them again later, or sometimes they are actually useful.
Recent examples include a few Latin ones (lapsis exillit, sub rosa, Romanità , ante gratiam), "lazy lozel", "Almanach de gotha", and a whole bunch of quotations and sentences from whatever is being read at the time and catches my eye. Don't you just love "The unlidded eye of golden day", for example?
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