Show threadSomething to Ponder AboutJun 5

Proverbial Wisdoms and Author Interview

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. Peter Marshall Adhering to the above adage, the older post shared below contains salient wisdom and commentary from 2017. Timeless advice. Thanks to author Karina Bartow for sharing this quote from Marshall. Author Interview coming soon on StPa An interview with author Karina Bartow, is coming up soon. Karina wrote Undeveloped Memories, a sentimental story centered around the importance of family, and the impact that unexpected, […]

https://forestwoodfolkart.wordpress.com/2026/06/05/proverbial-wisdoms-and-author-interview/

PugJesusJun 3
Maybe Romulus shouldn't have halved the city's workforce with a shovel, smh
figurativephrasesMay 13

Food on the quiet spoon

Food in the second bite

Food past the pepper line

Food under one lid

Food at the late plate

Food with a borrowed salt

Food in the wrong bowl

Food after the first crumb

Food on thin gravy

Food in the pocket snack

Food quick bite

Food spare crumb

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#idioms #food #figurative #figurativelanguage #idiom

40 Idioms About Food (Meaning + Examples + Other Ways to say) – Figurative Phrases

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50 emotions that don’t exist in the English language, but we all have experienced

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Show threadTheZorseApr 21

@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 FernApr 21

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 FernApr 21

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 wispApr 20
'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
Els Inventors

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Stan CareyApr 17

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

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