SOME IDIOMS
SUCCESS CONSISTS OF GOING FROM FAILURE TO FAILURE WITHOUT LOSS OF ENTHUSIAM
I DON'T KNOW IF I AM RIGHT, BUT I THINK IT IS A WINSTON CHURCILL'S QUOTATION. BUT THE FACT IS THAT I'M COMPLETELY SURE THAT THE SUCCESS CAN BE GET AND THAT NOT INVOLVES BEING RICH. AS WE KNOW, LIFE IS HARD AND WE ARE LIVING A VERY DIFFICULT ECONOMICAL TIME, SO NEVER LOSE THE ENTHUSIASM.
UNDERDOG
TO BE A LIFE BEACON
TO HAVE A FIELD DAY
BY THE WAY, CONGRATULATIONS!
TO RUN AMOK VS TO GO BERSERK
LIGHTENING DOESN'T STRIKE TWICE.
TO HAVE GOT THE GREEN
TO BE CAUGHT RED-HANDED
Maybe, red colour could have the blood connotation, thats the reason of the chosen photograph.
DON'T PUT OFF TILL TOMORROW WHAT YOU CAN DO TODAY
I think that the idioms talks about hard things, doing the ironing... and about relaxing things too. Stop the dayily rutine and live your life.
A PENNY SAVED IS A PENNY EARNED
FOOL ME ONE, SHAME ON YOU. fOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME.
BY THE SKIN OF MY TEETH
AS SICK AS A DOG. - - Black pudding for you. (Spanish)
- AS SICK AS A DOG.
As a Shih Tzu owner I can't understand this idiom, but I've found on the web that the dogs are supposed to eat all they find in the street, so that's why the get sick many times.
Here in Spain we have another idiom related with that. "Que te den morcilla" (Black pudding for you).
It's nearly like "Fuck you" but not so hard. And it has an explanation too. During the blackdeath (the peste), in the streets of some Spanish cities, street dogs get the illness too. The problem was that if they bite someone they could take the illness too. So they decided to kill all of them. How? With full poisoned black puddings along the streets. And it worked.
AS SLOW AS A SNAIL
- AS SLOW AS A SNAIL.
I love snail. The snail is not an insect. It is a gastropod. That is a latin word to say that they walk (pod) with the tummy (gastro).
But here in Spain, (I know that in many other countries too), they have a problem. We like eatting snails.
Here the recipe:
- Put snails in a hanging bagnet for 2 or 3 week. In a not sunny place, please.
- Then you have to wash them with water, salt and vinegar, so the slime will be removed.
- Boil water and the put them into.
- You have to move many times with a wooden spoon.
- Without the water, mix them with tomate juice, Spanish chorizo and add the pepper you want.
AS BRAVE AS A LION (SPECIAL EDITION FOR BIOLOGYWATCHER)
- AS BRAVE AS A LION.
It was supposed to be the King but nowadays we know how he really is.
He spent all the day under a tree, in the warm shadow.
The lioness runs to hunt since the male is resting.
The mane of the lion is to look bigger when he is fighting with another lion.
Although I'm speaking with funny sentences, I have to become serious to explain that those lovely mammals' population is particularly endangered, so please let's look after them.
AS WISE AS AN OWL.(SPECIAL EDITION FOR BIOLOGYWATCHER)
- AS WISE AS AN OWL.
Even in the ancient Greek mithology, the owl appears as an important animal, a very special one, it is clever and wise indeed.
I think it is all about its behaviour. The owl spents nearly all the day without moving, just watching what in the ground is happening. When the sensitive eyes of the owl discovers a bug, a big insect or even a mouse, it will be killed in a sec.
DON'T PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET.
SEVEN IDIOMS WITH THE WORD: "ALL"
- DON'T PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET:Becouse if you do it, they can broke. So is better to have different choices.
- TO BE ALL EARS: It means that you are listen carefully.
- ALL IN YOUR HEAD: You are imagining it, it is not real.
- ALL IN A DAY'S WORK: Me las apaño, I can do it, don't worry.
- ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE: After onething happened chaos came.
- ALL OVER THE MAP: In a chaotic explanation of something you hard understand, you can say that expression. In Spanish we say Se dio una bañada. Becouse nobody could continue with her explanation.
- ALL EYES ON ME. Everyone is looking at you.
TO BE THE TOP DOG
SOMETIMES IT IS USED TO SAY THAT THE PERSON CALLED TOP DOG IS THE PERSON WHO HAS EXPERIENCE DOING SOMETHING. SER PERRO VIEJO.
SO DON'T WORRY AND TRY TO BE THE TOP DOG, ALTHOUGH EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY AND ALTHOUGH HAVING A DOG'S LIFE. BUT NEVER GO TO THE DOGS.
I LOVE MY SHIH TZU.