#idioms — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #idioms, aggregated by home.social.
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Marketing Meeting
What if not enough people want to buy the product?
#Horse #Idioms #Joe #Poem #PoemADay #Poetry #Questions
We’ll make that horse drink when we come to it.
Joe, you know that’s not going to work. You can’t make a horse drink.
No, YOU can’t make a horse drink. But you’ve never been close enough to a horse for that to be counted against you.
“Joe, it’s impossible, that’s why the saying is you can lead a horse to water. but you CAN’T make him drink.”
That sounds like quitter talk and I don’t appreciate it. Mondays are for Marketing Mania. Get in the spirit, champ. -
3) 堂々巡り📿
"Circling the temple hall" is similar to the English phrase "Going around in circles". It is yet another idiom born at Kiyomizu-dera.
Pilgrims would circle the main hall, often many hundreds of times, as an act of faith. -
3) 堂々巡り📿
"Circling the temple hall" is similar to the English phrase "Going around in circles". It is yet another idiom born at Kiyomizu-dera.
Pilgrims would circle the main hall, often many hundreds of times, as an act of faith. -
3) 堂々巡り📿
"Circling the temple hall" is similar to the English phrase "Going around in circles". It is yet another idiom born at Kiyomizu-dera.
Pilgrims would circle the main hall, often many hundreds of times, as an act of faith. -
3) 堂々巡り📿
"Circling the temple hall" is similar to the English phrase "Going around in circles". It is yet another idiom born at Kiyomizu-dera.
Pilgrims would circle the main hall, often many hundreds of times, as an act of faith. -
3) 堂々巡り📿
"Circling the temple hall" is similar to the English phrase "Going around in circles". It is yet another idiom born at Kiyomizu-dera.
Pilgrims would circle the main hall, often many hundreds of times, as an act of faith. -
The little illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist Julia Suits on the cover highlight some incredibly specific cultural perspectives:
"To seize the moon by the teeth" (French): Trying to do the absolute impossible.
"Thighs shaped like banana trees" (Bengali): Explicitly noted as a traditional compliment to an attractive woman.
"A fly on the nose" (Italian): Having a massive chip on one's shoulder.
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The little illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist Julia Suits on the cover highlight some incredibly specific cultural perspectives:
"To seize the moon by the teeth" (French): Trying to do the absolute impossible.
"Thighs shaped like banana trees" (Bengali): Explicitly noted as a traditional compliment to an attractive woman.
"A fly on the nose" (Italian): Having a massive chip on one's shoulder.
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The little illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist Julia Suits on the cover highlight some incredibly specific cultural perspectives:
"To seize the moon by the teeth" (French): Trying to do the absolute impossible.
"Thighs shaped like banana trees" (Bengali): Explicitly noted as a traditional compliment to an attractive woman.
"A fly on the nose" (Italian): Having a massive chip on one's shoulder.
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The little illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist Julia Suits on the cover highlight some incredibly specific cultural perspectives:
"To seize the moon by the teeth" (French): Trying to do the absolute impossible.
"Thighs shaped like banana trees" (Bengali): Explicitly noted as a traditional compliment to an attractive woman.
"A fly on the nose" (Italian): Having a massive chip on one's shoulder.
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The little illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist Julia Suits on the cover highlight some incredibly specific cultural perspectives:
"To seize the moon by the teeth" (French): Trying to do the absolute impossible.
"Thighs shaped like banana trees" (Bengali): Explicitly noted as a traditional compliment to an attractive woman.
"A fly on the nose" (Italian): Having a massive chip on one's shoulder.
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I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms from Around the World by Jag Bhalla, 2009"I’m not hanging noodles from your ear," (вешать лапшу на уши). In Moscow, this curious, engagingly colorful assertion is common parlance, but unless you’re Russian your reaction is probably "Say what?" The same idea in English is equally odd: "I’m not pulling your leg." Both mean: Believe me.
#books
#nonfiction
#language
#idioms
#humour
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See also:
I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms from Around the World by Jag Bhalla, 2009"I’m not hanging noodles from your ear," (вешать лапшу на уши). In Moscow, this curious, engagingly colorful assertion is common parlance, but unless you’re Russian your reaction is probably "Say what?" The same idea in English is equally odd: "I’m not pulling your leg." Both mean: Believe me.
#books
#nonfiction
#language
#idioms
#humour
#AltText
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See also:
I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms from Around the World by Jag Bhalla, 2009"I’m not hanging noodles from your ear," (вешать лапшу на уши). In Moscow, this curious, engagingly colorful assertion is common parlance, but unless you’re Russian your reaction is probably "Say what?" The same idea in English is equally odd: "I’m not pulling your leg." Both mean: Believe me.
#books
#nonfiction
#language
#idioms
#humour
#AltText
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See also:
I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms from Around the World by Jag Bhalla, 2009"I’m not hanging noodles from your ear," (вешать лапшу на уши). In Moscow, this curious, engagingly colorful assertion is common parlance, but unless you’re Russian your reaction is probably "Say what?" The same idea in English is equally odd: "I’m not pulling your leg." Both mean: Believe me.
#books
#nonfiction
#language
#idioms
#humour
#AltText
#AltText -
See also:
I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms from Around the World by Jag Bhalla, 2009"I’m not hanging noodles from your ear," (вешать лапшу на уши). In Moscow, this curious, engagingly colorful assertion is common parlance, but unless you’re Russian your reaction is probably "Say what?" The same idea in English is equally odd: "I’m not pulling your leg." Both mean: Believe me.
#books
#nonfiction
#language
#idioms
#humour
#AltText
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The Wheel Is Spinning but the Hamster Is Dead by Adam Sharp, 2023
Join wordsmith Adam Sharp as he journeys around the world in idioms, proverbs and general nonsense.
Let's get this show on the road! Or: Let's saddle the chickens! (German) On with the butter! (Icelandic) Forward with the goat! (Dutch)
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The Wheel Is Spinning but the Hamster Is Dead by Adam Sharp, 2023
Join wordsmith Adam Sharp as he journeys around the world in idioms, proverbs and general nonsense.
Let's get this show on the road! Or: Let's saddle the chickens! (German) On with the butter! (Icelandic) Forward with the goat! (Dutch)
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The Wheel Is Spinning but the Hamster Is Dead by Adam Sharp, 2023
Join wordsmith Adam Sharp as he journeys around the world in idioms, proverbs and general nonsense.
Let's get this show on the road! Or: Let's saddle the chickens! (German) On with the butter! (Icelandic) Forward with the goat! (Dutch)
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The Wheel Is Spinning but the Hamster Is Dead by Adam Sharp, 2023
Join wordsmith Adam Sharp as he journeys around the world in idioms, proverbs and general nonsense.
Let's get this show on the road! Or: Let's saddle the chickens! (German) On with the butter! (Icelandic) Forward with the goat! (Dutch)
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The Wheel Is Spinning but the Hamster Is Dead by Adam Sharp, 2023
Join wordsmith Adam Sharp as he journeys around the world in idioms, proverbs and general nonsense.
Let's get this show on the road! Or: Let's saddle the chickens! (German) On with the butter! (Icelandic) Forward with the goat! (Dutch)
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Maybe Romulus shouldn't have halved the city's workforce with a shovel, smh
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Maybe Romulus shouldn't have halved the city's workforce with a shovel, smh
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Maybe Romulus shouldn't have halved the city's workforce with a shovel, smh
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Maybe Romulus shouldn't have halved the city's workforce with a shovel, smh
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Maybe Romulus shouldn't have halved the city's workforce with a shovel, smh
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50 emotions that don’t exist in the English language, but we all have experienced
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50 emotions that don’t exist in the English language, but we all have experienced
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50 emotions that don’t exist in the English language, but we all have experienced
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50 emotions that don’t exist in the English language, but we all have experienced
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BTW, I love a good idiom.
**Do you have a favorite idiom?
**Does your language/country have idioms?Some of my favorite idioms:
Get down to brass tacks.
Hold your horses.
A dime a dozen.
Raining cats and dogs.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Waste not want not. -
BTW, I love a good idiom.
**Do you have a favorite idiom?
**Does your language/country have idioms?Some of my favorite idioms:
Get down to brass tacks.
Hold your horses.
A dime a dozen.
Raining cats and dogs.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Waste not want not. -
BTW, I love a good idiom.
**Do you have a favorite idiom?
**Does your language/country have idioms?Some of my favorite idioms:
Get down to brass tacks.
Hold your horses.
A dime a dozen.
Raining cats and dogs.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Waste not want not. -
BTW, I love a good idiom.
**Do you have a favorite idiom?
**Does your language/country have idioms?Some of my favorite idioms:
Get down to brass tacks.
Hold your horses.
A dime a dozen.
Raining cats and dogs.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Waste not want not. -
BTW, I love a good idiom.
**Do you have a favorite idiom?
**Does your language/country have idioms?Some of my favorite idioms:
Get down to brass tacks.
Hold your horses.
A dime a dozen.
Raining cats and dogs.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Waste not want not. -
If your feet hurt, they say your dogs are barking. Tonight it's my ankles. My ankles hurt, so what do they say?
My snakes are biting?
My geese are snapping?I'm at a loss. Is there an ankle animal?
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If your feet hurt, they say your dogs are barking. Tonight it's my ankles. My ankles hurt, so what do they say?
My snakes are biting?
My geese are snapping?I'm at a loss. Is there be an ankle animal?
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If your feet hurt, they say your dogs are barking. Tonight it's my ankles. My ankles hurt, so what do they say?
My snakes are biting?
My geese are snapping?I'm at a loss. Is there an ankle animal?
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If your feet hurt, they say your dogs are barking. Tonight it's my ankles. My ankles hurt, so what do they say?
My snakes are biting?
My geese are snapping?I'm at a loss. Is there an ankle animal?
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If your feet hurt, they say your dogs are barking. Tonight it's my ankles. My ankles hurt, so what do they say?
My snakes are biting?
My geese are snapping?I'm at a loss. Is there an ankle animal?
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Fun to see the Irish idiom "make a hames of" in a national news headline: https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0417/1568809-odonovan-protests/
I wrote about the expression in 2012: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/making-a-hames-of-it/
#language #IrishEnglish #dialect #idioms #phrases #words #blogpost
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Fun to see the Irish idiom "make a hames of" in a national news headline: https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0417/1568809-odonovan-protests/
I wrote about the expression in 2012: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/making-a-hames-of-it/
#language #IrishEnglish #dialect #idioms #phrases #words #blogpost
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Fun to see the Irish idiom "make a hames of" in a national news headline: https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0417/1568809-odonovan-protests/
I wrote about the expression in 2012: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/making-a-hames-of-it/
#language #IrishEnglish #dialect #idioms #phrases #words #blogpost
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Fun to see the Irish idiom "make a hames of" in a national news headline: https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0417/1568809-odonovan-protests/
I wrote about the expression in 2012: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/making-a-hames-of-it/
#language #IrishEnglish #dialect #idioms #phrases #words #blogpost
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Fun to see the Irish idiom "make a hames of" in a national news headline: https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0417/1568809-odonovan-protests/
I wrote about the expression in 2012: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/making-a-hames-of-it/
#language #IrishEnglish #dialect #idioms #phrases #words #blogpost
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Today I learned what the expression "whet your appetite" really means: to "whet" is to sharpen a blade on a whetstone. Hence, "whet your appetite" literally means "sharpen your appetite", which could be translated to "prepare" or "make ready".
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Today I learned what the expression "whet your appetite" really means: to "whet" is to sharpen a blade on a whetstone. Hence, "whet your appetite" literally means "sharpen your appetite", which could be translated to "prepare" or "make ready".
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Today I learned what the expression "whet your appetite" really means: to "whet" is to sharpen a blade on a whetstone. Hence, "whet your appetite" literally means "sharpen your appetite", which could be translated to "prepare" or "make ready".
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Today I learned what the expression "whet your appetite" really means: to "whet" is to sharpen a blade on a whetstone. Hence, "whet your appetite" literally means "sharpen your appetite", which could be translated to "prepare" or "make ready".
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Today I learned what the expression "whet your appetite" really means: to "whet" is to sharpen a blade on a whetstone. Hence, "whet your appetite" literally means "sharpen your appetite", which could be translated to "prepare" or "make ready".
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"This house comes complete with dry bar, wet bar, and a bar that is in an intermediary state between wet and dry so we call it a moist bar."
"Why do you say 'complete with?'"
"What?"
"You're intimating that all the houses that don't have a dry bar, a wet bar and a moist bar are incomplete."
"It's just a way of speaking."
"Well... it is a nonsensical way of speaking, if you ask me."
"[Mumbling] Nobody asked."
"What's that?"
"*cough cough* I was clearing my throat."
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"This house comes complete with dry bar, wet bar, and a bar that is in an intermediary state between wet and dry so we call it a moist bar."
"Why do you say 'complete with?'"
"What?"
"You're intimating that all the houses that don't have a dry bar, a wet bar and a moist bar are incomplete."
"It's just a way of speaking."
"Well... it is a nonsensical way of speaking, if you ask me."
"[Mumbling] Nobody asked."
"What's that?"
"*cough cough* I was clearing my throat."
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"This house comes complete with dry bar, wet bar, and a bar that is in an intermediary state between wet and dry so we call it a moist bar."
"Why do you say 'complete with?'"
"What?"
"You're intimating that all the houses that don't have a dry bar, a wet bar and a moist bar are incomplete."
"It's just a way of speaking."
"Well... it is a nonsensical way of speaking, if you ask me."
"[Mumbling] Nobody asked."
"What's that?"
"*cough cough* I was clearing my throat."
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"This house comes complete with dry bar, wet bar, and a bar that is in an intermediary state between wet and dry so we call it a moist bar."
"Why do you say 'complete with?'"
"What?"
"You're intimating that all the houses that don't have a dry bar, a wet bar and a moist bar are incomplete."
"It's just a way of speaking."
"Well... it is a nonsensical way of speaking, if you ask me."
"[Mumbling] Nobody asked."
"What's that?"
"*cough cough* I was clearing my throat."
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"Њему је и комарац музика" - он и досадно прима као пријатно