#idioms — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #idioms, aggregated by home.social.
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50 emotions that don’t exist in the English language, but we all have experienced
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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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"Њему је и комарац музика" - он и досадно прима као пријатно
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Saw this sentence with both the Irish English "give out" and a standardized-English "give out":
"The banks often give out¹ that the rules are too tight and they can’t give out² the money people need."
¹ complain
² issue, distributeSource and commentary: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/giving-out-irish-style/
#language #dialect #idioms #IrishEnglish #EnglishUsage #phrases
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People on LinkedIn are inventing nonsense business idioms, and they're too good not to use
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/made-up-business-idioms
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Fun example of semantic drift, but is it restricted to one person? Let me know if you've encountered this reading of "take it offline", from Gen Z or elsewhere
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amandabrummitt_i-spend-a-lot-of-time-talking-about-communication-activity-7402116821522567168-T5vD -
To be a good person, all you have to do is follow the golden rule. #English #Idioms with colors. #ESL #EFL #EAL #inglés #영어 #anglais #英语 #英語 #inglese #अंग्रेज़ी #inglês #angielski. https://thelanguagegarage.com/english-idioms-with-colors/
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All religions have some form of the golden rule. #English #Idioms with colors. #ESL #EFL #EAL #inglés #영어 #anglais #英语 #英語 #inglese #अंग्रेज़ी #inglês #angielski. https://thelanguagegarage.com/english-idioms-with-colors/
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Save money for your retirement so you can enjoy your golden years. #English #Idioms with colors. #ESL #EFL #EAL #inglés #영어 #anglais #英语 #英語 #inglese #अंग्रेज़ी #inglês #angielski. https://thelanguagegarage.com/english-idioms-with-colors/
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I've heard this complaint before, from Vladimir Nabokov...about writing in English...he translated his own novel into his native Russian...and was dissatisfied with the result.
Perhaps every language is clumsy?
(My personal experience: I translated books by Dmitry Maksutov from Russian to English. They are books on telescope making. It was a fairly straightforward matter to translate expository text. Maksutov would wax philosophical and poetic in the introductory and concluding paragraphs...and I hated translating those passages. I had to frequently ask native Russian speakers about idioms, colloquialisms, etc. That stuff is often very culture-specific and does not translate well.)
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Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899 and grew up speaking Russian, English, and French. He spent his childhood in Russia, but spent most of his life living in Germany, France, and finally moved to the United States in the 1940s. In America, he switched from writing in Russian to writing primarily in English and found international fame with his novel Lolita, which came out in 1955. In the afterword to his novel, Nabokov wrote that the English language was “second-rate” compared to the “rich” Russian one. He decided to take on the task of translating Lolita, which was published in his native Russian language in 1967. But the author did not find the satisfaction that he was searching for with his translation, and in the postscript to the Russian version, Nabokov expressed this discontent by writing that “the story of this translation is the story of disappointment.” This thesis aims to recognize the reasons behind the author’s self-proclaimed unsuccessful translation and to directly compare the English original with the Russian translation.
https://honors.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/13866
#Writing #Translation #Russian #English #Language #Idioms #Idiom #Slang
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Na regen komt zonneschijn
☔ Betekenis : Na een periode van tegenslag komt er een betere tijd. / Voorspoed volgt op tegenspoed. / Als er wat naars is gebeurd, wordt het daarna weer beter.
☔ Vertaling, translation, traduction, Überseztung, traduzione : English, français, Deutsch, italiano, português, español → ALT#spreekwoorden #idioms #expressions #nederlands #dutch #language #languages #foreignlanguages #humanities #linguistics #taal #langue #regen #zonneschijn #gezegde #nt2 #dutchlearning
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Why we swear like a trooper, trucker, sailor, fishwife.
Updated my @stronglang post with notes from Ashley Montagu's 1967 book The Anatomy of Swearing:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2022/12/11/trooper-trucker-sailor-fishwife-what-we-swear-like-when-we-swear-like-a-something/#swearing #profanity #linguistics #language #StrongLanguage #AshleyMontagu #idioms
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🌟 Want to sound like a local in Hebrew? 🌟
My new YouTube video is here! 🎥
In Part 1 of Hebrew Expressions Israelis Use Daily, I’m diving into the most common idioms and phrases that make Israeli Hebrew so vibrant and authentic. 🇮🇱✨
These are the expressions you need to know to take your Hebrew to the next level — whether you're watching the news, chatting with friends, or just curious about the culture.
Click here to watch:
https://youtu.be/Sns4EDD1p0E?si=EeqoKNqKMh13kEsY
Let me know your favorite idiom from the video — I’d love to hear what you think!
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📢New Publication Alert!
📚 Explore the linguistic treasure trove of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ́t. Giuliano Castagna delves into this endangered language, preserving its rich #proverbs and #idioms for future generations.
This book explores the rich paremiological heritage of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ̄́t, an endangered pre-literate language belonging to the Modern #SouthArabian sub-branch of #Semitic, spoken by an ever-decreasing number of people in the #Dhofar governorate of the Sultanate of Oman.
Reflecting the historical value of #proverbs and #idiomatic expression within the documentation of a language, Giuliano Castagna analyses a sizeable share of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ̄́t #proverbs, sayings and idioms from #Arabic-language publications, as well as hitherto unpublished expressions that reveal undocumented features in the domains of #lexicon, #phonetics, #phonology and #morphology.
🔗Access or get your hard copy at https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0422
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📢New Publication Alert!
📚 Explore the linguistic treasure trove of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ́t. Giuliano Castagna delves into this endangered language, preserving its rich #proverbs and #idioms for future generations.
This book explores the rich paremiological heritage of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ̄́t, an endangered pre-literate language belonging to the Modern #SouthArabian sub-branch of #Semitic, spoken by an ever-decreasing number of people in the #Dhofar governorate of the Sultanate of Oman.
Reflecting the historical value of #proverbs and #idiomatic expression within the documentation of a language, Giuliano Castagna analyses a sizeable share of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ̄́t #proverbs, sayings and idioms from #Arabic-language publications, as well as hitherto unpublished expressions that reveal undocumented features in the domains of #lexicon, #phonetics, #phonology and #morphology.
🔗Access or get your hard copy at https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0422
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📢New Publication Alert!
📚 Explore the linguistic treasure trove of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ́t. Giuliano Castagna delves into this endangered language, preserving its rich #proverbs and #idioms for future generations.
This book explores the rich paremiological heritage of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ̄́t, an endangered pre-literate language belonging to the Modern #SouthArabian sub-branch of #Semitic, spoken by an ever-decreasing number of people in the #Dhofar governorate of the Sultanate of Oman.
Reflecting the historical value of #proverbs and #idiomatic expression within the documentation of a language, Giuliano Castagna analyses a sizeable share of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ̄́t #proverbs, sayings and idioms from #Arabic-language publications, as well as hitherto unpublished expressions that reveal undocumented features in the domains of #lexicon, #phonetics, #phonology and #morphology.
🔗Access or get your hard copy at https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0422
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📢New Publication Alert!
📚 Explore the linguistic treasure trove of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ́t. Giuliano Castagna delves into this endangered language, preserving its rich #proverbs and #idioms for future generations.
This book explores the rich paremiological heritage of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ̄́t, an endangered pre-literate language belonging to the Modern #SouthArabian sub-branch of #Semitic, spoken by an ever-decreasing number of people in the #Dhofar governorate of the Sultanate of Oman.
Reflecting the historical value of #proverbs and #idiomatic expression within the documentation of a language, Giuliano Castagna analyses a sizeable share of #Jibbali/#Śḥərɛ̄́t #proverbs, sayings and idioms from #Arabic-language publications, as well as hitherto unpublished expressions that reveal undocumented features in the domains of #lexicon, #phonetics, #phonology and #morphology.
🔗Access or get your hard copy at https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0422
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Are you a #Puzzle fan?
Do you crave a #verbal #challenge ?
Are #idioms your thing?
No pressure! - No prizes! - No tracking!
It's all just for the fun of sharing some fun on Sundays here in federated, independent social media.
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🌧️RAINY IDIOMS🤔
"bamboo shoots after the rain"
雨後の筍のように
similar things happening/occurring one after another (usually with a slightly negative meaning)😖"constant rainfall strengthens the foundation"
雨降って地固まる
what doesn't kill you makes you stronger💪 -
Intermediate English 2 (longplay) for the ZX81
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPiflNDPsmE
#IntermediateEnglish2 #IntermediateEnglish #ZX81 #Educational #Education #Edutainment #English #RoseCassettes #Idioms #Opposites1 #Opposites2 #Opposites #GroupTerms #OddWordOut #Spellings #RoseCassettes
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Rabbit Rabbit 🐇 🐇 Happy New Year
🔔 Ears Ringing 🔔
By Wallace Edwards from his collection The Cat's Pajamas, 2010
#rabbitrabbit #rabbit #rabbits #wallaceedwards #happynewyear #earsareringing #catspajamas #ringinthenewyear #firstofthemonth #firstofjanuary #januaryfirst #firstdayoftheyear #january1st #januaryfirst #goodluck #firstdayofthemonth #illustrator #illustration #idioms #rabbitart
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"To kill two birds with one stone" in other languages might not be about birds. Or about killing at all!
Tell us the #translation in your languageSource: https://mapologies.com/two-birds-one-stone/
#mapologies #map #idioms #languages #expression #languagecomparison
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Anybody ever heard/used the phrase "smile like a cheeseburger"? If yes, define please!
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Anybody ever heard/used the phrase "smile like a cheeseburger"? If yes, define please!
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Anybody ever heard/used the phrase "smile like a cheeseburger"? If yes, define please!
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Anybody ever heard/used the phrase "smile like a cheeseburger"? If yes, define please!
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Anybody ever heard/used the phrase "smile like a cheeseburger"? If yes, define please!
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The Sincere Speculation. #ClosedCaption can unintentionally create #NewIdioms. I think we should all speculate with sincerity, We would all be better people. #Idioms #SincereSpeculation
