You may have heard someone describing a chewing-ou... ...t means when they say that, but what's behind the idiom ? At one time, it had to have made perfect sense t... ...lse it wouldn't have fallen into common usage.The idiom , which has been in use for centuries, is generall...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/13/What-is-the-Riot-Act-and-Why-Dont-I-Want-It-Read-to-Me/If someone is looking too hard for a deeper meanin... ...sense when you think about it. Every culture has idioms or old sayings that convey a common truth, but ca... ...the creative team at NeoMam Studios took 12 such idioms from all over the world and illustrated them in p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/26/12-Idioms-That-Get-Lost-in-Translation/Combine malapropisms and mixed metaphors, and you'... ...and you've got a malaphor. It's a "mixture of two idioms , creating a sort of malaprop in metaphor form." A... ...aphors collects incidences of these idiosyncratic idioms . Here are some examples:She called me every name...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/05/Malaphors/(Image credit: Keith Allison)From high-fives to air quotes, these smooth moves had to start somewhere.1. THE FIST BUMPThe fist bump received its 15 minutes of fame most recently when President Barack Obama knocked knuck...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/03/02/The-Secret-Origin-of-7-Extremely-Important-Actions/The title is a fancy way of saying “chart of... ...tle is a fancy way of saying “chart of food idioms .” This is the latest comic from John Atkins... ...tually used a piece of pie, there would be enough idioms
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/29/Dietetic-Idiomatic-Schematic/Sir, I sincerely wish that chickens turn into huge... ...blog Hotel Club previously brought us 10 strange idioms from around the world. More recently, it worked w... ...h artist Jared Atkins to illustrate 10 Australian idioms
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/05/02/10-Australian-Phrases-Illustrated/[https://vimeo.com/63083013] (vimeo link)What happens when the elephant in the room confronts the skeleton in the closet? That’s far from the only turns of speech that go head-to-head back-to-back in this sequence....
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/03/30/Confessions-of-an-Idiom/When an English speaker doesn't understand somethi... ...ries? Wikipedia and Omniglot have the list of the idioms . Mark Liberman of Language Log distilled t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/09/26/5-Fun-Facts-Its-All-Greek-To-Me/In English, we often use the term "when pigs fly"... ...Nautilus, and even a world map showing where more idioms
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/08/25/When-Pigs-Fly-2/Urban artist id-iom noticed a temporary blue wall around an empty lot in London, and decided to do this little stencil job. Now did a certain earworm pop up when you read that text? You'd prob...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/29/a-groovy-kind-of-earworm/
