In America, we have idioms -- that is, figures of speech -- that other countries probably don't have or even know what it means when we say it. Does your country have idioms for any of these phrases? '"Don't let the cat out of the bag" This means 'don't tell anyone our little secret.' Example: "Listen, Joe, I'm starting a consulting company, and you've got a great government job. So, how about you give me some of those lucrative government contracts and don't let the cat out of the bag?"
"I'm feeling under the weather" This means 'I'm sick.' (But I can't really think of a good thing I'm sick from exactly) Example: "I would love to go to that thing the company is doing for the environment today, Joe, but I'm a little under the weather. Yeah, I think I have Idongivaratsass."
"Once in a blue moon" This means that it happens rarely Example: "When you're praying, do you ever think God that you're not French? Yeah, once in a blue moon, but I don't really think about other countries that much."
"She twisted my arm" This means she really convinced you to do something and wouldn't take "no" for an answer. Example: "Trust me, I usually wouldn't be caught dead at a necro-orgy, but she twisted my arm."
Can you think of other purely American idioms? What's your country's equivalent?This literally means, fuck off if you're from another country
We have exactly the same ones and they mean the same thing. Here's a few that are slightly darker www.walesonline.co.uk/.../18-spectacular-welsh-sayings-make-19349992 My dad's favourite is " pull like your pulling a black guy off your mother" the English equivalent is "put your back into it"
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These are so charming, especially that they revolve around farm life and the origins of the KKK.
Once in a blue moon basically means, every great once in a while. We only get a blue moon a couple times a year so, it's like saying that you don't do a certain thing often, just a couple times a year or even less than that.
There's also good arguments for the inventor of the computer being British (Charles Babbage, the first programmer being Ada Lovelace), and the first electronic computers coming from Germany or the UK (who kept their development in the 1940's secret until the 1970's).
The English language most definitely came from England!
