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Jeff the odd man – (go the extra mile) February 15, 2018

Can you add a list of idioms all in a line and be able to click it to see the meaning and everything else?

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Weequahic – (when it rains, it pours) February 13, 2018

Re “When it rains. . .”

50-cent (“fittysen”) wasn’t even born when Morton first used that on their salt containers to point out humidity didn’t affect the salt’s performance. And Morton only used it because it was already a common expression that consumers would catch onto right away.

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Tanushka – (once in a blue moon) February 11, 2018

Once I saw a red blood and blue moon 🌕

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Khuram – (call it a day) February 10, 2018

After 30 years of active service my father called it a day last month.

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Mike Lance – (rise and shine) February 6, 2018

The origin of this phrase is much older. The earliest use of ‘rise and shine’ in print is in Isaiah 60:1. King James Version, 1611, gives that as: “Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.”

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OV – (when pigs fly) February 6, 2018

It is a real expression that people do use, certainly in England.

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Dale Dealing – (once in a blue moon) February 2, 2018

I think the definition is incorrect. The phrase “once in a blue moon” is an Indian phrase for the 4th full moon of a season, Europeans came along and started calling the 2nd full moon of a month a blue moon. The time between a true blue moon is much longer than 32 months.

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Brit – (get hitched) February 2, 2018

It doesn’t mean people are being tied together like a horse and a wagon. It’s an alternative form of “tying the knot”. In Celtic times, pagans tied their hands together in a hand-tying ceremony that was equivalent to marriage.

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Akanksha – (born with a silver spoon in mouth) January 31, 2018

I am also born with a silver spoon in mouth. As I didn’t need to work hard. I get everything in time. 😁😁

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Anonymous – (kick the bucket) January 29, 2018

When someone kicks the bucket, that means he has strength. Why should he die?

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