Meaning: To have a dispute or issue to take up with another person
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ryan b
10/20/2021 09:35:23 am
Idiom: dont wake up on the wrong side of the bed. In Roman times, it was considered bad luck to get out of bed on the left side. Hence if you exited on that wrong side, your day was fated to be a bad one.
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Chloe
10/20/2021 04:37:14 pm
I think it is so crazy that a simple incident can turn into a nationally known saying. The stories show me where the sayings come from but I am wondering how people were able to spread them. Idioms are a great way to express your feelings but they are really hard to use. I wish I could better use them.
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Brigid
10/21/2021 01:10:03 pm
Origin: In some plces in olden times, it was considered bad luck to get out of bed on the left side. They thought if you got out of bed on the wrong side, a.k.a the left side, you were gonna have a bad day.
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Brigid
10/21/2021 01:12:30 pm
Origin: First seen in several London publications in the 1700s, its origin dates well before that and refers to a then-common street fraud. Market scamsters apparently attempted to replace pigs which were valuble with cats which weren't very valuble. If the cat was let out of the bag, the gig was up. That's related to why you don't want to buy "a pig in a poke"
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Brigid
10/21/2021 01:14:57 pm
Origin: There are mant theries on "its raining cats and dogs"200 The most probable? In 17th-century England, public sanitation wasn't what it is today—hence during deluges, rain coursing down the streets would often carry dead animals with it.
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James
10/21/2021 02:59:24 pm
The idiom "I'll give you a rain check on that" is one I've only heard once or twice. It means to complete an unfulfilled order or task at a later or more convenient date.
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Claire
10/25/2021 02:13:02 pm
I like how they actually didn't mean to invent idioms but it just happened. What a coincidence. This helps me so much in my IRB (independent reading book) because you can really feel what the characters are feeling. Like for example: A broken heart is a feeling where you are like sad, depressed, devastated, etc. That's actually a real famous one. Almost everyone uses it. But in my opinion, I feel like idioms, similes, and metaphors (especially metaphors) are almost the same exact thing. That's why sometimes I get confused.
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James
10/26/2021 05:04:03 pm
I chose the idiom "Burn the candle at both ends". This idiom means: To live at a frenetic or dangerous pace. The idiom originated in 18th-centry England, and it was used literally. If you burned a candle on both ends you were wasting the valuable candle wax and you were most likely end up with a nasty wax burn on your hands
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James
10/26/2021 05:07:30 pm
I chose the idiom "Skeleton in my closet". This idiom means a secret source of shame or embarrassment. The origin of this idiom is in 19th-century England. This idiom was also used literally it was mentioned in reference to a family attempting to keep a son's illness secret
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Pablolicio aka pablo
10/27/2021 08:01:43 pm
Origin of piece of cake: in 1870 there were cakes given as competition rewards for a us tradition
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Shawn P
11/9/2021 04:59:12 pm
I like how they actually didn't mean to invent idioms but it just happened. What a coincidence. This helps me so much in my IRB because you can really feel what the characters are feeling. Like for example: A broken heart is a feeling where you are like sad, depressed, devastated, etc. That's actually a real famous one. Almost everyone uses it. But in my opinion, I feel like idioms, similes, and metaphors (especially metaphors) are almost the same exact thing. That's why sometimes I get confused.
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Shawn P
11/10/2021 03:56:24 pm
I think it is so crazy that a simple incident can turn into a nationally known saying. The stories show me where the sayings come from but I am wondering how people were able to spread them. Idioms are a great way to express your feelings but they are really hard to use. I wish I could better use them. I like how they actually didn't mean to invent idioms but it just happened. What a coincidence. This helps me so much in my IRB (independent reading book) because you can really feel what the characters are feeling. Like for example: A broken heart is a feeling where you are like sad, depressed, devastated, etc. That's actually a real famous one. Almost everyone uses it. But in my opinion, I feel like idioms, similes, and metaphors (especially metaphors) are almost the same exact thing. That's why sometimes I get confused.
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Shawn P
11/11/2021 03:42:39 pm
I like how they actually didn't mean to invent idioms but it just happened. What a coincidence. This helps me so much in my IRB (independent reading book) because you can really feel what the characters are feeling. Like for example: A broken heart is a feeling where you are like sad, depressed, devastated, etc. That's actually a real famous one. Almost everyone uses it. But in my opinion, I feel like idioms, similes, and metaphors (especially metaphors) are almost the same exact thing. That's why sometimes I get confused.
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Shawn P
11/16/2021 05:03:12 pm
I think it is so crazy that a simple incident can turn into a nationally known saying. The stories show me where the sayings come from but I am wondering how people were able to spread them. Idioms are a great way to express your feelings but they are really hard to use. I wish I could better use them.
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Shawn P
11/17/2021 06:11:29 pm
I think it is so crazy that a simple incident can turn into a nationally known saying. The stories show me where the sayings come from but I am wondering how people were able to spread them. Idioms are a great way to express your feelings but they are really hard to use. I wish I could better use them. I like how they actually didn't mean to invent idioms but it just happened. What a coincidence. This helps me so much in my IRB (independent reading book) because you can really feel what the characters are feeling. Like for example: A broken heart is a feeling where you are like sad, depressed, devastated, etc. That's actually a real famous one. Almost everyone uses it. But in my opinion, I feel like idioms, similes, and metaphors (especially metaphors) are almost the same exact thing. That's why sometimes I get confused.
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Daphne
11/18/2021 04:20:03 pm
I got don't lite a candle at both ends, because people took it literally, you would be wasting a good candle and most likely get a burn in the process
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noreen
12/9/2021 07:45:54 pm
I choose the idiom saved by the bell. Honestly it has a pretty freaky meaning to it. Back in the 1800s, people were being buried alive because everyone thought they were dead. They found this out because a few times they dug up some coffins and there were dents and scratches spread across the top, from the people pounding and dragging their fingers across the top of the coffins wanting to get out because well, they were still alive. They started putting bells in the coffins, so if anyone was still alive, someone working the "graveyard shift" would hear it and alert people to dig up the coffin so they hopefully still have a life ahead of them. That is also where the term "graveyard shift" came in because the people working to hear the bells if anyone was buried alive was called the graveyard shift. This made people feel better, here is a well-known person that was so scared of being buried alive. "Have me decently buried, but don't let my body be put into a vault less than two days after I am dead" was a deathbed request from George Washington himself! It's weird to think that even well-known people have huge phobias.
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Raahil
2/22/2022 01:38:12 pm
I think that it is really cool how something that was (kind of) made by an accident, became something that people everywhere around the world know. An accident like that made a whole new style of figurative language, which many people use today. It's amazing how an accident became something many people use/know of today.
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Raahil
2/27/2022 03:44:16 pm
I think that it is really cool how idioms were kind of made on accident. Some said and idiom (which wasn't and idiom back them) in a newspaper article, and it became a nationally known saying. It ended up being a whole new form of figurative language! It was a really happy accident, because without idioms, speech and writing would be very different that what it is today! Many people say idioms without even realizing, and if idioms weren't a thing, we would all talk differently, and books we read and things we write would be written differently.
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