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Idiom America
By SemeventSociety & Culture
Idiom America episodes
- Sheep Idioms
Ram in the thicket; Sacrificial lamb; Scapegoat; Whipping boy; Like a lamb to the slaughter; Wolf in sheep's clothing; Separate the sheep from the goats; Lost sheep; Black sheep; Dyed-in-the-wool; True blue; Pull the wool over someone's eyes; Make sheep eye's at someone; Counting sheep; All cry and no wool; All bite and no bark; Mutton dressed as lamb; Two shakes of a lamb's tail; Bellwether
23 min - Insect Idioms, Part II: Nits make lice; Nitpicking; Flyspecking; Fly on the wall; Bug; Fly on the wheel; The ant and the grasshopper; Fly in the buttermilk; Fly in the ointment; Ants in your pants
Antsy; Knee-high to a grasshopper; Knee-high to a junebug; Like a duck on a junebug; Crazy as a junebug; Not enough brains to saddle a junebug; Cuter than a Junebug; Cute as a bug; Cute as a bug's ear; Crickets...
17 min - Insect Idioms, I: The birds and the bees; Busy as a bee; Make a beeline; Bee in your bonnet; Bug in your ear; None of your beeswax; The bee's knees; Strain at a gnat; Down to a gnat's eyebrow
Kill a fly with an elephant gun;
16 min - Hill and Mountain Idioms: Over hill and dale; Make a mountain out of a molehill; What in the sam hill; King of the hill; Over the hill; Old as the hills; Move mountains; Mountain oysters; Mountain Dew
If the mountain won’t come to Mohammed, then Mohammed must go to the mountain; Willing to die on that hill
20 min - Flower Idioms: Gild the lily; Paint the lily; Lily-white; Lily-livered; Pushing up daisies; Whoops-a-daisy; Ups-a-daisy; Fresh as a daisy; Shrinking Violet; Wallflower
Pigeon-livered; Oops-a-daisy; Oops; Whoops.
18 min - Butterfly and butter idioms, and suck it up buttercup! -- Butterflies in your stomach; social butterfly; the butterfly effect; suck it up buttercup; butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth;
Gaudy as a butterfly; break a butterfly on a wheel; kill a gnat with a sledgehammer; bread always falls on the buttered side; bread and butter; butterface; butter someone up
20 min - Hook Idioms: By hook or by crook; On tenterhooks; Hooking up; Hookers; Get you hooks into somebody; Meathooks; Swallow something hook, line, and sinker; Wriggle off the hook; Off the Hook; On the Hook
Let someone off the hook; Ringing off the hook; Wriggle out of
18 min - Pig Idioms: Pig in a Poke; Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered; Hogwash; You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear; Lipstick on a pig; wrestling with pigs; Happy as a pig in mud
Don't cast your pearls before swine; Like pigs in clover; Go hog wild; Hog heaven; Greedy pig; Pig out; Eat like a pig; Make a pig of oneself; Selfish pig; Go whole hog
16 min - Cycling Idioms: Along for the ride; Backpedal; Freewheeling; Take off the training wheels; Fifth wheel or third wheel; Shift gears; Spin one's wheels; Back in the saddle; Handlebar moustache;
Woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle; Just like riding a bike; Soft-pedal; Cyclopath
19 min - Stick Idioms: Short end of the stick; Get hit with the stupid stick; Fiddlesticks!; Wrong end of the stick; Stick in the mud; Beat them off with a stick;
Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick; Speak softly and carry a big stick; More XYZ than you can shake a stick at;.
16 min
About Idiom America
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A podcast that takes a look at the origin and history of some of those gems of language, idioms, and then goes from there.