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minus-squareJustas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·17 days agoNo, but have some Lithuanian ones. Don’t spit in a well as one day you may drink from it. Bend the tree while it is young. Flax is not yet sown and they are already weaving the linen. You will know a horse by his teeth and a man by his talk. God gave teeth, God will provide the bread. Cat stroking leads to hump raising. Old love does not rust. The shoemaker is always barefoot. Whatever you do, do it well. There is no medicine that can cure stupidity. Well begun, is half done. Idioms Spoons after supper hang noodles on the ears like a fifth leg for a dog don’t say ‘wheee’ before jumping over the ditch sitting like they were just kissed walking like they just sold the land catch the corner my roof is riding away it’s a fact like a pancake to pour from an empty container into a leaky one go and visit the dwarves like a finger in the eye it left on the dog’s tail cutting a mushroom to shepherd the eyes wrap words in cotton wool to leave someone on ice show the goats to clarify a relationship
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·17 days agoThanks. Here’s my favorite bit of Americana. “Chin music.” Needless chatter, as when sports fans jeer the opposition. Or, specifically in baseball, to throw a pitch near the batter’s face to intimidate them.
No, but have some Lithuanian ones.
Don’t spit in a well as one day you may drink from it.
Bend the tree while it is young.
Flax is not yet sown and they are already weaving the linen.
You will know a horse by his teeth and a man by his talk.
God gave teeth, God will provide the bread.
Cat stroking leads to hump raising.
Old love does not rust.
The shoemaker is always barefoot.
Whatever you do, do it well.
There is no medicine that can cure stupidity.
Well begun, is half done.
Idioms
Spoons after supper
hang noodles on the ears
like a fifth leg for a dog
don’t say ‘wheee’ before jumping over the ditch
sitting like they were just kissed
walking like they just sold the land
catch the corner
my roof is riding away
it’s a fact like a pancake
to pour from an empty container into a leaky one
go and visit the dwarves
like a finger in the eye
it left on the dog’s tail
cutting a mushroom
to shepherd the eyes
wrap words in cotton wool
to leave someone on ice
show the goats
to clarify a relationship
Thanks.
Here’s my favorite bit of Americana.
“Chin music.”
Needless chatter, as when sports fans jeer the opposition.
Or, specifically in baseball, to throw a pitch near the batter’s face to intimidate them.