Dorothy Parker, I love you
On the next Language Practice we have to talk about the origin of an idiom in conneciton with an animal. Here's what I found doing this task:
You can lead a horse to the water, but you can't make it drink.
You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.*
I think it's hilarious, but I don't think I should talk about prostitutes...:)
I will explain jump the shark**, which is not perfect, but I hate the whole thing. 99% of the explanations was: "There was a nursery rhyme in the XII. century with this line." Thanks, that's fascinating.
*by Dorothy Parker
**It's a moment in a TV show, after which everything just get worse (unbelievable, illogical things happen, it seems that the writers don't have any good ideas). Such as a new actor plays a character, or the best example: Bobby Ewing lives again. The origin of the ewxpression is Happy Days (a TV show from the 70s), in which the main character, Fonzie jumped over a sharkk during water skiing (and wearing his trademark leather jacket with a swimsuit).