Shuck on down to the fraidy hole
WELL HOT DAMN! I love me some idioms.
Seriously. I've been learning as many idioms as my brain can hold. Few things seem better to me than being capable of colorful conversation.
I figure I will actually read the dictionary, and I will memorize as many idioms as I possibly can. Combine all of that with my curious knowledge of superstitions, and I am set. I could become either one of the most enthralling and scintillating small talkers to ever grace this earth, or the most obnoxious person to avoid at social gatherings.
Hell, I could even wind up sounding like a learned hillbilly.
I'll take my chances.
God knows, I have nothing better to do with my time right now.
A quick list of some of my favorite idioms so far:
*Shuck on down to the fraidy hole*: To hide in fear from something; to retreat to a cellar during a tornado.
*On tenterhooks*: to be very cautious
*Many a slip twixt the cup and the lip*: It's easy to make mistakes
*Eat crow*: Admit that you are wrong
*No shrinking violet*: a bold woman
*Character assassination*: to ruin anothers reputation
*Dead-cat bounce*: very little recovery after a loss
*Fucked by the fickle finger of fate*: to feel that luck is against you
*At loggerheads*: in disagreement
*Into the sauce*: getting drunk; being a drunkard
*As useless as tits on a boar*: Not useful at all; having no function
Those should last you for now.
Seriously. I've been learning as many idioms as my brain can hold. Few things seem better to me than being capable of colorful conversation.
I figure I will actually read the dictionary, and I will memorize as many idioms as I possibly can. Combine all of that with my curious knowledge of superstitions, and I am set. I could become either one of the most enthralling and scintillating small talkers to ever grace this earth, or the most obnoxious person to avoid at social gatherings.
Hell, I could even wind up sounding like a learned hillbilly.
I'll take my chances.
God knows, I have nothing better to do with my time right now.
A quick list of some of my favorite idioms so far:
*Shuck on down to the fraidy hole*: To hide in fear from something; to retreat to a cellar during a tornado.
*On tenterhooks*: to be very cautious
*Many a slip twixt the cup and the lip*: It's easy to make mistakes
*Eat crow*: Admit that you are wrong
*No shrinking violet*: a bold woman
*Character assassination*: to ruin anothers reputation
*Dead-cat bounce*: very little recovery after a loss
*Fucked by the fickle finger of fate*: to feel that luck is against you
*At loggerheads*: in disagreement
*Into the sauce*: getting drunk; being a drunkard
*As useless as tits on a boar*: Not useful at all; having no function
Those should last you for now.