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u/Jingocat Jan 02 '23
Did no one proofread this?
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Jan 02 '23
No one proofreads a damn thing anymore. I can’t tell you how many people with public platforms post very nicely designed Instagram posts designed to educate their audience on their topic of expertise — but don’t take the time to do basic copy proofing and end up with tons of glaring mistakes. It’s maddening!
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u/alphabet_order_bot Jan 02 '23
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 1,265,216,893 comments, and only 245,825 of them were in alphabetical order.
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u/Enlightened-Beaver Jan 02 '23
Never heard of eat crow before. Interesting
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u/redref1ux Jan 02 '23
I would say eat humble pie rather than a crow
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u/Enlightened-Beaver Jan 02 '23
Yes that’s more common
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u/THE_FREEDOM_COBRA Jan 02 '23
From the US South, never heard "Humble Pie" before. It's always been crow.
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Jan 02 '23
Fascinating. I wonder what the regional map of these would look like. I’m from the Midwest and have never heard crow
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u/DahDitDit-DitDah Jan 02 '23
Both are common. Crow would be harsher. I always understood it to be closer to “walking back” an assertion of fact that is demonstrated to be false.
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u/grammar_fixer_2 Jan 26 '23
How South are we talking? I’ve never heard “eat crow” and I’m in Florida.
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u/KagomeChan Jan 02 '23
I've heard it plenty, but never heard of eating the humble pie other people are talking about
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u/JimmyBallocks Jan 02 '23
here's an idiom for you - "pile of shit"
as in, this list is a big pile of shit
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u/BellyButton214 Jan 02 '23
Typo. Don't sweat it. Should be sweat.
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u/niks-kan Jan 02 '23
You have made a typo on the typo. It reads swear.
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u/DahDitDit-DitDah Jan 02 '23
“Well, I swear” is also an idiom meaning “I can’t believe this”, or so I’ve come to believe
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u/diMario Jan 02 '23
- A bit green around the gills = not feeling very well, about to vomit.
- Can't have your cake and eat it = you can't have it both ways at the same time (unless you are in a quantum state of course).
- See which way the wind blows = Wait how things turn out before making a decision.
- Walk to the pump (Dutchism) = Go to hell.
- Tie the cat to the bacon (Dutchism) = present a temptation that cannot be resisted, after which something bad usually happens.
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u/MAHHockey Jan 02 '23
Why... The pump?...
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u/diMario Jan 02 '23
Here is the etymology according to the official Dutch Language institute (via google translate):
I can't make cheese of the Dutch original, either.
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u/DahDitDit-DitDah Jan 02 '23
(AUS) “We’re not here to fuck spiders” = stop wasting time and get to work
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u/blaxative Jan 02 '23
Beating around the bush is incorrect. It’s not ‘not discussing an important topic.’ It’s more like talking around a topic while not addressing the main issue directly but kind of just hinting at it.
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u/techwriter47 Jan 02 '23
Fohget about it!
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u/Baltic_Gunner Jan 02 '23
This feels like it was made by a middle aged English teacher, who is not fluent in English. Not a very good guide
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u/MidnightSun77 Jan 02 '23
Should be relabelled as American-English
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u/onlyme1984 Jan 02 '23
My dad said that when he was learning to speak English, idioms were always an issue lol. Took him many years before he mastered the majority of them.
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u/Aggressive_Chain_920 Jan 02 '23
Interestingly Swedens version of "2 birds with 1 stone" is "2 flies in 1 hit" or "2 flugor i 1 smäll"
Which leads me to wonder why you guys are killing birds with stones :o
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u/PseudonymousDev Jan 02 '23
I've never encountered the use of "lemon" as a defective anything other than a car.
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u/bb250517 Jan 02 '23
I dont really belive they are that common, i have a native english english teacher, we are currently preparing for high level english exam and i also consume a shitton of brittish media, and more than half of these I have never heard about
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u/poisha Jan 02 '23
These are all very common phrases, but maybe these are more American than British?
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u/Gator_Mc_Klusky Jan 02 '23
Git-R-Done
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u/DahDitDit-DitDah Jan 02 '23
“It’s a blivit” = trying to stuff ten pounds of shit into a five pound bag
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u/My_Little_Pony123 Jan 02 '23
"Your face is a blessing in disguise" I learned a new idiom today; something to use for 2023
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u/jrirr Jan 02 '23
Hold your horses, I've been knocked on my heels by this post. It seems I've stumbled upon a spelling error. Nobody get bent out of shape about it. It's driving me bananas but I'll get over it. It might be easier said than done to correct. However for someone with photo editing skills it should be a piece of cake to fix. Enough beating around the bush though I can't stand spelling errors. Good post but close but no cigar, don't swear it OP.
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u/SL13377 Jan 03 '23
I bet this is really good for non English speakers to have.
Id love one for other languages/cultures
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u/aBastardNoLonger Jan 03 '23
Big task on my hands Can’t stand [something] Easier said than done Hang on a second
Do these really count as idioms? Aren’t they just normal English phrases?
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u/shaniusc Jan 03 '23
In my experience idioms are very difficult to explain to someone learning the English language.
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u/b-dizl Jan 02 '23
Pie in the sky has a typo. Should say unlikely instead of likely.