What idioms do you use in your own culture or location?

I liked the Tag ones......the Tag I know made me popular with guys until I found out what I was saying. I was dating this guy and the guys I worked with taught me foul things to tell him. The irony...he never told me.My roomie was a shy girl and got mad they did that.

A few common American ones.....I put meaning in paranthesis in case you haven't heard them. No offense intended.......slipped my mind (forgot) ......laugh your head off (really found funny) ......broken hearted (lost true love or very sad) ......cute as a button (very cute) ......slept like a log (slept well) .......shut your trap (be quiet) ........call it a day (be done with project) ........take a hike (I want you to go away) ......bloom is off the rose (not new anymore) ......under the weather (feeling ill) .......sharp as a tack (not too smart) ........ants in their pants (too active or anxious) ......let the cat out of the bag (slipped the secret) I loved the Deep South and California ones! American culture is full of idioms we've come to accept as easy to understand to everyone, but some sayings come from our "melting pot society"(hmmm catch that?

). We have picked up idioms from British, Irish, Italian, French, Filipino, Korean, Spanish, Mexican, Scottish.....oh heck.....everyone.

I live in the Deep South. There are so many it is hard to begin... 1. All y'all comin'?

= Which of you are willing to accompany me? 2. Are we fixin' ta go?

= Will we be departing shortly? 3. Howdy.

= How do you do? 4. Aidin' and abettin'!

= I agree, sir! 5. Stop piddlin' with that thing.

= Please cease disturbing the artifacts. 6. Older n' dirt!

= quite old. 7. If'ta good lord's willin' = If random chance is on our side 8.

Like white on rice = with great enthusiasm 9. Good'ner = better than Yeah. It's really messed up.

One thing that I always thought odd was the way people in California refer to freeways/highways. In Southern California, it's THE 405 or THE 210. In Northern California it's just 880 or 101, with no "the" preceding it.

I think most of the US refers to freeways minus the preceding article. I know for sure that's how they refer to freeways/highways on the East Coast.

In and around Chicago we refer to nearly all the highways by the late great people they memorialize: the Dan Ryan, the Kennedy, the Eisenhower, the Stevenson, Jane Addams, the Bishop Ford... it goes on and on. You might also want to look in the recently completed Dictionary of American Regional English out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The content of the dictionary isn't available online yet, but the website is enough to get you started with it.

Here is the link: http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/dare.html.

This is in mexico so it's going to be in spanish Chido - Cool Le falta un tornillo - he/she is crazy(literelly hee/she is missing a screw) Estar entre la espada y la piedra -To be caught between a rock and a hard place (Literally, “to be between the sword and the stone”) Con las manos en la masa - Red-handed (Literally, “with your hands in the flour”) Tocayo(s) (mas) - for guys with the same name as for example if are with two guys with the name miguel they are tocayos. In girs is Tocaya(s) Primo tocoyo - a cousin with the same name as you (I made this up when I met my cousin who has the same name as me) the are other but there are very vulgar and others that aren't but can't remember.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.