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Idioms : English and Turkish
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26 Jul 2010 Mon 09:40 pm |
This reminded me of a similar one:
Mutton dressed as lamb - this comment may be made when a person sees an older woman trying (and failing) to look younger by wearing clothes/hairstyles/accessories meant for a much younger woman.
maybe with a dudu on her arm?
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28 Jul 2010 Wed 04:42 pm |
Acting or looking like Lady Muck. Pretending to be of a higher social standing than she is. Also swanning around can have a similar reference.
On people who are not so bright, Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Getting things wrong: Throwing the baby out this the bath water. Making a pig´s ear of it.
Getting agitated: In a right two and eight! Getting your knickers in a twist.
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28 Jul 2010 Wed 04:49 pm |
Acting or looking like Lady Muck. Pretending to be of a higher social standing than she is. Also swanning around can have a similar reference.
On people who are not so bright, Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Getting things wrong: Throwing the baby out this the bath water. Making a pig´s ear of it.
Getting agitated: In a right two and eight! Getting your knickers in a twist.
Throwing the baby out WITH the bath water.
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28 Jul 2010 Wed 04:53 pm |
nalları dikmek (you say it when someone has died, like kicked the bucket)
The term "nallari dikmek" is not one you would normally use, if you are describing your own father´s demise.
It carries a high degree of disrespect for the deceased...and is very impolite, if used with reference to human being who has passed away..
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28 Jul 2010 Wed 04:58 pm |
You´re quite right AlphaF - we would not say ´kick the bucket´ if we were being respectful and serious. Only if the death was being taken very lightly - or if we were talking maybe about ourselves , eg If I haven´t kicked the bucket before then.
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29 Jul 2010 Thu 12:26 am |
Acting or looking like Lady Muck. Pretending to be of a higher social standing than she is. Also swanning around can have a similar reference.
I have another, similar one, but it´s a tad rude. "All fur coat and no knickers."
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29 Jul 2010 Thu 12:35 am |
You´re quite right AlphaF - we would not say ´kick the bucket´ if we were being respectful and serious. Only if the death was being taken very lightly - or if we were talking maybe about ourselves , eg If I haven´t kicked the bucket before then.
I have a book (somewhere) and it details the history behind idioms. Some go back hundreds of years. One theory about the above idiom is that it refers to someone who has committed suicide by hanging themselves - They would stand on a bucket and kick it from under theselves at the final moment. Gruesome
I used to work in the banking industry and I always remember my boss referring to people who were in a bad way financially as being in "Dickie´s meadow" i.e. big trouble (doesn´t have to be restricted to financial trouble).
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29 Jul 2010 Thu 12:41 am |
From time to time my dear mother uses this idiom : "All my eye and Peggy Martin"
I´ve looked it up here.
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29 Jul 2010 Thu 01:33 pm |
Dear All,
Let me introduce to you WikIdioms (http://www.wikidioms.com) - a crowd-source project of multilingual translation of idioms, phrasal verbs, expressions and other kinds of collocations.
The site contains now circa two thousand expressions in several languages and is rapidly growing due to the efforts of our fellow translators.
I invite you to visit the site and use it for your needs, or even contribute!
Regards, Anna
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29 Jul 2010 Thu 01:48 pm |
Dear All,
Let me introduce to you WikIdioms (http://www.wikidioms.com) - a crowd-source project of multilingual translation of idioms, phrasal verbs, expressions and other kinds of collocations.
The site contains now circa two thousand expressions in several languages and is rapidly growing due to the efforts of our fellow translators.
I invite you to visit the site and use it for your needs, or even contribute!
Regards, Anna
I just thought of another idiom:
a cuckoo in the nest
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01 Aug 2010 Sun 04:09 pm |
peacetrain , what do you want to say me by using this idiom as reply?
Edited (8/1/2010) by annekeAnna
[forgot that i´ve already posted it]
Edited (8/1/2010) by annekeAnna
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