Reader Opinions
gwyneth – (throw dust in eyes) April 30, 2020
I think thatt throw dust in eyes means to distract someone.
gwyneth – (as mad as a hatter) April 30, 2020
I think mad as a hatter means your crazy or insane.
Kate Steele – (home is where the heart is) April 29, 2020
My understanding is that “heart” is a more modern term for “hearth” –the fireplace where “the home fires” were kept burning. The family gathered around the “home fire / hearth” became synonymous with “heart” in its many shades of meanings.
Fred Lee Curry – (home is where the heart is) April 29, 2020
I don’t think so. It means that wherever your heart is (work, with spouse, children, etc.), that that is where your real home is, not just where you are living, or where you grew up.
Anonymous – (home is where the heart is) April 29, 2020
I’m completely agreeing with this thought that home is where the heart is and whenever or wherever I am; the most essential is being attached to my loved ones; my family; kids; parents who I always miss them and they are the most significant ones for me.
Muhammad – (home is where the heart is) April 29, 2020
I’m also agreed home is where the heart is, were you can fine a true love, memories and being happy with your love ones.
Ramesh Joshi – (sticky fingers) April 29, 2020
Thanks a lot for sending the idioms. I have noted good writers using idioms very effectively. Sometime back I read the use of idiom’s like ‘CARRYING COAL TO NEWCASTLE’. I heard there is no more coal mining in England but the idiom has remained as powerful.
English is not my mother tongue but like idioms.
I have saved your address.
Jamel – (a blessing in disguise) April 27, 2020
Despite all the trying times that I faced it turned out finaly to be blessing in disguise because I came throught even more stronger
Anonymous – (bring owls to Athens) April 27, 2020
Never heard this idiom but it’s sort of covered by bringing coal to Newcastle. Newcastle being the traditional coal mining capital of Great Britain.
Freya – (once in a blue moon) April 26, 2020
To do something “once in a blue moon” is to do it very rarely: “That company puts on a good performance only once in a blue moon.” The phrase refers to the appearance of a second full moon within a calendar month, which actually happens about every thirty-two months.
