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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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This is so fun to think of 😆
A hard nut to crack.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Peas in a pod.
Hit the nail on the head.
Good enough for government work.
Between a rock and a hard place.
On thin ice.
Hitting the hay.
That's the ticket! -
This is so fun to think of 😆
A hard nut to crack.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Peas in a pod.
Hit the nail on the head.
Good enough for government work.
Between a rock and a hard place.
On thin ice.
Hitting the hay.
That's the ticket! -
This is so fun to think of 😆
A hard nut to crack.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Peas in a pod.
Hit the nail on the head.
Good enough for government work.
Between a rock and a hard place.
On thin ice.
Hitting the hay.
That's the ticket! -
This is so fun to think of 😆
A hard nut to crack.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Peas in a pod.
Hit the nail on the head.
Good enough for government work.
Between a rock and a hard place.
On thin ice.
Hitting the hay.
That's the ticket! -
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 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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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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The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:
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#libraries
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#English
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The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:
#southafrica
#libraries
#ev
#byd
#Wordle
#wordle1762
#English
#idioms
#quotes
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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Idiomatic Expressions of Identification: "Name to Face" vs. "Face to Name"
Learn the difference between 'put a name to a face' and 'put a face to a name'. Understand how we remember people by sight or by name.
#EnglishPhrases, #LanguageLearning, #Memory, #Communication, #Idioms
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Idiomatic Expressions of Identification: "Name to Face" vs. "Face to Name"
Learn the difference between 'put a name to a face' and 'put a face to a name'. Understand how we remember people by sight or by name.
#EnglishPhrases, #LanguageLearning, #Memory, #Communication, #Idioms
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We often use phrases to talk about remembering people. 'Put a name to a face' means you know someone's face but forget their name. 'Put a face to the name' means you know a name but can't picture the person. It's about how our memory works.
#EnglishPhrases, #LanguageLearning, #Memory, #Communication, #Idioms
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We often use phrases to talk about remembering people. 'Put a name to a face' means you know someone's face but forget their name. 'Put a face to the name' means you know a name but can't picture the person. It's about how our memory works.
#EnglishPhrases, #LanguageLearning, #Memory, #Communication, #Idioms
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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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People on LinkedIn are inventing nonsense business idioms, and they're too good not to use
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/made-up-business-idioms
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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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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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13 super common idioms that make zero sense until you know where they come from
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/13-idioms-that-make-no-sense-ex1
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13 super common idioms that make zero sense until you know where they come from
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/13-idioms-that-make-no-sense-ex1