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so we're studying idioms.. it's been my experience that "kids these days" just don't know what many of them are.. have you noticed? ever say "the early bird gets the worm" for example, and a kid be like huh?

do you have a favorite? one you use often?



 
My boss was just talking about this yesterday. She's taught her twin 8 year old step daughters to say "get my goat." I think its cute that they walk around like 80 year olds.
 
I have monkey backpacks (with long leash tales) and put them on the boys for the plane trip to Utah. I had a couple people say "Hey, you have a monkey on your back, oh wait, I probably should'nt say that". Apparently in the 60's or 70's or something having a monkey on your back meant a drug addiction or something, I had never heard that one before. As far as my fav, I have no idea.

I also don't know if that's even considered an idiom as I've never heard that term before, but in my mind my story is relevant to the thread.
 
kiwi said:
I have monkey backpacks (with long leash tales) and put them on the boys for the plane trip to Utah. I had a couple people say "Hey, you have a monkey on your back, oh wait, I probably should'nt say that". Apparently in the 60's or 70's or something having a monkey on your back meant a drug addiction or something, I had never heard that one before. As far as my fav, I have no idea.

I also don't know if that's even considered an idiom as I've never heard that term before, but in my mind my story is relevant to the thread.
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Monkey on your back is referencing any trouble you can't get rid of, drugs or otherwise normally.
 
bury the hatchet

chill out

spick and span

eat you out of house and home

eat crow

pull out a fast one

famous last words

everything but the kitchen sink





(yours is not in my book kiwi :-()
 
a leopard can't change its spots.
don't put all your eggs in one basket.

my mom parented solely in idioms. :/
 
Getting off scot-free.

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Just for fun, I ZRH'd it.

If you get off scot free you avoid punishment for doing something that deserves punishment. For example, “Although the police caught him red-handed, the judge said there wasn’t enough evidence and he got off scot free”.

The word scot in this sense has nothing to do with Scotland or Scotsmen, however. Scot is believed to be a word of old Germanic origin that is related to the words shot and shoot. In medieval England the scot was a tax levied on the members of a village or town which all the inhabitants had to pay in proportion to the size of their property or the extent of their land. Some people avoided the scot, however, often because their houses were built in unfavourable places such as hills with no water or places prone to flooding. Such people were described as scot free and the term has now come to describe anyone who avoids a punishment or financial penalty that they would normally have to serve or pay.
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