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/
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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."
"Њему је и комарац музика" - он и досадно прима као пријатно
A friend was eating very quickly, and I said something along the lines of 'wolfing down her meal'.
She had never heard of that phrase, and the moment I said it, it felt wrong.
Do you remember in school when someone said 'intensive purposes' or 'I literally died' because we didn't understand whatwe were saying?
Is wolfing food the same thing? Am I confoosing it for something else?
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, distribute
Source and commentary: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/giving-out-irish-style/
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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.
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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.
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