What Quora users make use of uncommon slang or expressions? How so?

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I never use slang on Quora, as it doesn't seem like the kind of site you can use slang on.

I have loads of phrases that I make up. My ongoing mission in life is to use as many phrases as humanly possible, to reduce my volcabulary to its smallest possible size. Here are the ones I've had a chance to use.

Isn't life grand?
Shot myself in the foot.
That defeats the object.
That's what I thought.
That's life.
It's not every day that
You can't make someone change if they don't want to.
You've done your part, and now it's up to them to do theirs.
It's like proving you've had Corn Flakes for breakfast.
It makes perfect sense.
It's the people who haven't done what they came to do in life, who are the most afraid of death.
Karma is religion for atheists.
It's not like it's... / If anything...
You can hide yourself but not your intentions.
Girls emotions aren't like men's; they're not like light switches.
Girls are like slot machines. No matter how good you are at playing, you can never truly know what response you'll get.
People who sellout don't gain longevity.
Do as you wish.
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing!
Everything in life has no point, except eating, breathing and sleeping; but influence or reclusive composure is the point.
Front-facing
Let the eagles carve up the pigeons in flight.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
That defeats the object. Defeating the object.
Time doesn't slow down for the unfortunate.
Beherent. [definition]
And it's all happy in the end!
Thieves and cartels stick together.
Style it out.
As shit as crocs.
You can't cut down the middle.
It's like cutting string for a wristband.

Ones that I haven't made up

Let your guard down
Goes out the window
Rose tinted glasses
Ask a stupid question and get a stupid answer.
Clutching at straws
Talking to a brick wall
Lowest hanging fruit
Tabula rasa. (latin)
Et sequitur. (latin) [definition]
Kill two birds with one stone.
A little bit of column A, a little bit of column B.
Thief in the night.
Other side of the pond.
Beating a dead horse.
Only time will tell.
Flogging a dead horse.
Laissez fairre (french)
Splitting hairs.
Cop-out.
Wolf in sheep's clothing.
Scraping the barrel.
The door swings both ways.
Break the ice.
Double edged sword.
With flying colours.
You catch more flies with honey.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
Thick as two planks.
The pendulum swings both ways.
Out of the blue.
Vis-à-vis (French for face-to-face, simple mapping/pairing)