pray tell
For demanding an answer. In my opinion, it adds a friendly layer of irony, indicating that you cannot see a possible reason for something :
And pray tell, what purpose does it serve? 🙄
Half Sisyphus, half rolling stone.
Describes self sabotaging tendencies (while showing good will and effort).
I thought you quit smoking last month – yea, half Sisyphus, half rolling stone🥲
Wide awake nightmare: A terrible thing you have to live with, you can’t just wake up from it.
As in the line from the MST3k episode The Scream Skull, “This is Micky, Micky is a wide awake nightmare.”