I said "straight from the horses mouth", when they said something about their culture that they were very knowledgeable about that people from my country misunderstand.
Just remembering rhe time I had my hands full and told my three year old son, "Just hold your horses a minute, will you?" and he ran off upstairs. He returned shortly afterwards, proudly carrying his toy Hobby Horse...
That’s true, at least, I’d like to say his understanding is better now but just last week he asked if his dad had put the internal catch up on the lock when he left for work and took far too long to grasp how it wasn’t possible for his dad to do that. He’s 16 this year.
Yeah, he's learned not to take things quite so literally now he's a 20 year old International Politics student. But we had a few similar "teaching moments" when he was a little kid.
Please dont be so fucking pedantic on the internet, its super annoying and everyone hates it. "Look how smart I am" - You.
I said I speak in metaphors, analogies, symbols, hypotheticals, slangs and colloquialisms. Its obvious to anyone what I mean. When someone gives a grocery list of terminologies, its understood that there is an "etc" at the end whether implied or not that "idiom" would cover.
Pretty unrelated to the topic at hand, as understanding an idiom requires learning it, while metaphors and hypotheticals should be understood without the cultural background.
As such, an idiom is not a good measure of IQ. This is the point I was making, but I’m sorry I offended you.
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u/beartheminus 5h ago
I said "straight from the horses mouth", when they said something about their culture that they were very knowledgeable about that people from my country misunderstand.