Show threadFylgja2d ago

@forestfern

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!

#idioms

Show threadTheZorse2d ago

@forestfern

I'm not sure about a favourite, but you got me thinking...

Bit/bite the dust
Hook, line, and sinker
Bought the farm
Go/went nuts
Tickled pink

Sometimes when I use an expression, I'm suddenly not sure whether it's real or I made it up. Some of them are pretty strange!

#idioms

Show threadForest Fern3d ago

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.

#idioms #random
#sayings

Forest Fern3d ago

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?

#sayings
#idioms
#random

wolf of the wisp3d ago
'quan passa el toro, tothom ho sap' (when the bull passes, everybody knows) - xavi #idioms #idioma #catalan #profecia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsYPlZVQTd0
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Stan Carey6d ago

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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Graham DownsApr 16

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".

#English #idioms

Your Autistic Life Apr 11

"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."

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"*cough cough* I was clearing my throat."

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