A Thousand Words in Idioms Y and Z

 

 

"A Thousand Words in Idioms"

As long as people have been around, they have tried to communicate with each other. As a means of getting the message across as clearly as possible, idioms and sayings have found their way into our language. Now, because "a picture paints a thousand words", I thought it would be nice to make this a photo challenge. The idea is to choose an idiom, or a saying, ( even slang is allowed) and illustrate it with a picture. Each week we'll cover two letters of the alphabet, okay? You can find the first edition here if you need some inspiration.

 


If "language is the dress of thoughts" ( Johnson), then idioms must the wardrobe ...

Here we go! Already the last two letters of the alphabet, who would have thought we would find them all?  Some of them were quite a challenge, but even the hard ones were fun! To make it even more fun, we’re going to keep the photo challenge and loose the alphabet. Starting next week everybody will be free to choose the idioms they want. All I’m asking is to have two each week and to use your own pictures, archived ones, or new ones. I hope to see more players each week?

Okay here we go …
Y is for ....

You could have knocked me out with a feather means you are very surprised or shocked to hear something.

And Z is for ....


Zonk out : Zonk out means to fall asleep very quickly. (source)

 

 

Now don’t forget to sign the Mister Linky if you’re playing? Please use the link to your post, not your homepage, okay?
I can’t wait to see what you’ll come up with this week!!

A Thousand Words in Idioms, Almost there ...

As long as people have been around, they have tried to communicate with each other. As a means of getting the message across as clearly as possible, idioms and sayings have found their way into our language. Now, because "a picture paints a thousand words", I thought it would be nice to make this a photo challenge. The idea is to choose an idiom, or a saying, ( even slang is allowed) and illustrate it with a picture. Each week we'll cover two letters of the alphabet, okay? You can find the first edition here if you need some inspiration.

"A Thousand Words in Idioms"

If "language is the dress of thoughts" ( Johnson), then idioms must the wardrobe ...

The next to last two letters from the alphabet already, we’re doing W and X this week!

Now some players have asked me what I will do when the alphabet is done. More and more people seem to find this a fun challenge so I would want to make this a weekly.
The only thing I would like to change is that we get rid of the alphabet and let the players decide for themselves which two idioms they want to use. Everybody can join in and play, as much as they or whenever they want, nothing to catch up if you’ve missed a week. We will play on Wednesdays, like we did up until now.
What do you think? Is this a good plan? Do you want to join in?
Go ahead and grab your camera’s!


Like I said …
W is for …

Water off a duck’s back: If criticism or something similar is like water off a duck's back to somebody, they aren't affected by it in the slightest.

And X is for ….
WARNING

okay, send your kids off to get an ice cream or something before you scroll down,
because …..

X is for …

X rated!!! If something is x-rated, it is not suitable for children.
Ahem.

And NO, they’re not the same bugs as I the couple I showed here. It must have been bug mating season when I was there, I just kept stumbling upon this kind of hot stuff!

Now take your minds out of the gutter and sign Mr Linky if you’re playing this week, okay? Oh and make it a link to the actual post instead of your homepage, this will make it easier to look you up whenever we want, okay?

As always, I’m very much looking forward to what you’ll come up with.
See you all again next week for Y and Z, and let me know if you want to continue after that, okay? I sure hope so, because I’m still having fun!

A Thousand Words in Idioms, U and V

As long as people have been around, they have tried to communicate with each other. As a means of getting the message across as clearly as possible, idioms and sayings have found their way into our language. Now, because "a picture paints a thousand words", I thought it would be nice to make this a photo challenge. The idea is to choose an idiom, or a saying, ( even slang is allowed) and illustrate it with a picture. Each week we'll cover two letters of the alphabet, okay? You can find the first edition here if you need some inspiration.

"A Thousand Words in Idioms"

If "language is the dress of thoughts" ( Johnson), then idioms must the wardrobe ...

Wednesday again, time to dress up our language with idioms again. You know, my grandmother is the inspiration behind this meme, she always used such colorful sayings , we always knew what she meant, and she often made us chuckle. The first picture I’m using is in her honor, it’s from the village where she lived…

U is for ....

“Under a cloud”: If someone is suspected of having done something wrong, they are under a cloud.

And V is for ....

“Variety is the spice of life” means that life can be made more interesting by doing new and interesting things, the more experiences you try the more exciting life can be.
I could not agree more!

Let’s hope the Mr Linky works today eh? Don’t forget to click on the box and add the link to your post (not the homepage of your blog). This will make it easier to track the posts down if we want to look them up sometime in the future!  Have fun everyone!

I can’t wait to see what you’ll all come up with this time!

A thousand words in Idioms, S and T

As long as people have been around, they have tried to communicate with each other. As a means of getting the message across as clearly as possible, idioms and sayings have found their way into our language. Now, because "a picture paints a thousand words", I thought it would be nice to make this a photo challenge. The idea is to choose an idiom, or a saying, ( even slang is allowed) and illustrate it with a picture. Each week we'll cover two letters of the alphabet, okay? You can find the first edition here if you need some inspiration.

"A Thousand Words in Idioms"

If "language is the dress of thoughts" ( Johnson), then idioms must the wardrobe ...

S is for ....

“See which way the cat jumps”:
if you see which way the cat jumps, you postpone making a decision or acting until you have seen how things are developing.

I wanted to take a picture of a very cute cat sitting on this window sill in Lourmarin, but she beat me to it and jumped off. In a fraction of a second I followed the cat with my camera and tried to snap her picture anyway, but I was too late. When I saw the picture on my computer my initial thought was to delete it. And then I thought it made a rather nice shadow shot for the Scavenger hunt. I ended up using a different one for the photo hunt but I still kept it in my archives .
It's a good thing I did not delete it. I could not think of a better picture for this idiom!

T is for ...



"Take your hat off ":
If you say that you take your hat off to someone, you are showing your respect or admiration.

This man is an ice cream vendor in the streets of Lourmarin. I published another picture of him in my Photo Scavenger Hunt a while back. I'm very pleased to anounce that it has been voted best picture in the "laughter" category of Kirsti's Scavenger hunt. But I took more than one picture of this man, he had such a photogenic face!
This is the second one ... And once again, he tells the perfect story.

I’m very much looking forward to what you will come up with. Don’t forget to enter the URL of your blog post in the Mr Linky if you’re playing. It makes it easier for people to track the posts down or look them up later.

A Thousand Words In Idioms, M and N

As long as people have been around, they have tried to communicate with each other. As a means of getting the message across as clearly as possible, idioms and sayings have found their way into our language. Now, because "a picture paints a thousand words", I thought it would be nice to make this a photo challenge. The idea is to choose an idiom, or a saying, ( even slang is allowed) and illustrate it with a picture. Each week we'll cover two letters of the alphabet, okay? You can find the first edition here if you need some inspiration.

"A Thousand Words in Idioms"

If "language is the dress of thoughts" ( Johnson), then idioms must the wardrobe ...

But before we start, may I have your attention please? As I am going away on holiday for the next two weeks, ( no Internet :-( ... eww! ) so I won't be able to host this meme until I get back again. But we will resume this on July first and do our O and P then, okay?
Now I KNOW you're going to miss me, and I will miss each and every one of YOU but you'll still be able to visit my daily posts. Some of them are already scheduled, and I'm working very hard to have something up for each day I'm gone! So please please please, keep visiting this blog while I'm gone? And leave me a comment while you're here? Because, that's why I'm going through all this trouble in the first place. I would love to come home and read all your comments? And I'll visit you all back as soon as I'm back, okay? Deal?

Now, on with the business of the day. Where were we? Oh yes, M and N right?

M is for ...

Okay, I have a little treat this week to make up for the time that I will be gone.
I found FOUR idioms, to go with one and the same picture!
Now how's that huh? Is that clever, or is that VERY clever?

*ahum, cough cough* ;-)


The first one is obvious: "Make a pig's ear": If you make a pig's ear of something, you make a mess of it.
Next up: "Murky waters": Where people are behaving in morally and ethically questionable ways, they are in murky waters.
" Muddy the waters": If somebody muddies the waters, he or she makes the situation more complex or less clear.
And the last one is my favourite one : "Make a silk purse out of a pig's ear": create something valuable out of something of no value.




N is for ...


"Needle in a haystack". If trying to find something is like looking for a needle in a haystack, it means that it is very difficult, if not impossible to find among everything around it.


Can't wait to see what everyone else has posted!!
Don't forget to sign the Mr Linky, okay? Melli? Rosidah? :-)

A Thousand Words in Idioms K and L

As long as people have been around, they have tried to communicate with each other. As a means of getting the message across as clearly as possible, idioms and sayings have found their way into our language. Now, because "a picture paints a thousand words", I thought it would be nice to make this a photo challenge. The idea is to choose an idiom, or a saying, ( even slang is allowed) and illustrate it with a picture. Each week we'll cover two letters of the alphabet, okay? You can find the first edition here if you need some inspiration.

"A Thousand Words in Idioms"

If "language is the dress of thoughts" ( Johnson), then idioms must the wardrobe ...

We are doing K and L this week.

K is for .... Knock on wood.
A person knocks on wood or touches wood for good luck.

Knock On Wood - Amii Stewart

Remember the song? I can never hear that phrase, without hearing the song.
Aaahhh, memories from the seventies ...

L is for ...
Like a kid in a candy store.

If someone is like a kid in a candy store, they are very excited about something.

Yes, well okay, they're still in FRONT of the candy store in this picture, and if you're curious about the inside of the shop, here's another picture ...

Don't forget to sign the Mr Linky if you're playing?
Can't wait to see what you'll come up with!

A Thousand words in Idioms, G and H

As long as people have been around, they have tried to communicate with each other. As a means of getting the message across as clearly as possible, idioms and sayings have found their way into our language. Now, because "a picture paints a thousand words", I thought it would be nice to make this a new photo challenge. The idea is to choose an idiom, or a saying, ( even slang is allowed) and illustrate it with a picture. Each week we'll cover two letters of the alphabet, okay?
You can find the first edition here if you need some inspiration.

" A Thousand Words In Idioms"

If "language is the dress of thoughts" ( Johnson), then idioms must the wardrobe ...

Here we go ...

G is for ....
" Gone fishing"
If someone has gone fishing, they are not very aware of what is happening around them.

And H is for "Hang by a thread"
If something hangs by a thread, there is a very small chance of it being successful or surviving.

If you're playing, sign the Mr Linky, and don't forget to visit the others.
Join us, it's fun!! I can't wait to see what you've come up with this week!

UPDATE!!!

IT HAS ARRIVED!!!! WOOHOOO!!!!!
Miracles DO happen!!!!

I'm so happy!!

A Thousand Words In Idioms, E and F

As long as people have been around, they have tried to communicate with each other. As a means of getting the message across as clearly as possible, idioms and sayings have found their way into our language. Now, because "a picture paints a thousand words", I thought it would be nice to make this a new photo challenge. The idea is to choose an idiom, or a saying, ( even slang is allowed) and illustrate it with a picture. Each week we'll cover two letters of the alphabet, okay?
The very first edition is here if you need some inspiration.
So here we go again ...

" A Thousand Words In Idioms"

The third week already eh? This meme is fun, we have had more players each week. So don't just stand there, don't hesitate but join in!!!
This is so much fun!! We're doing E and F this week.

Now grab your cameras or dig into your archives and join us!!
Now ...
E is for ...

"Elephant in the room".
I am picking that one because there's a funny story attached to it.
I first came across this idiom in my early "blogging-in-English" days. I read about "a nine thousand pound elephant in the bedroom" in a comment, I remember well! I even remember who commented and whose blog it was on! Speaking of elephants, I must have a memory like one! I had no idea what it meant then, but I do now!
An elephant in the room is a problem everybody knows about but rather not talk about, a taboo.
There is an article on the meaning and the origin of that saying here, if you're interested.

I happen to have the perfect picture in my archives, how cool is that?

F is for ...


"Fresh from the oven" Sorry if I'm making you hungry again!!
If something is fresh from the oven it means that it's very new.


That's it from me this week!
I'm dying to see what you have come up with this week!!!
Oh and one more thing. Sign the Mr Linky with the link to your post, not the one to your homepage. It will make it easier for new players to find previous posts.

A Thousand Words In Idioms, #2 C and D

As long as people have been around, they have tried to communicate with each other. As a means of getting the message across as clearly as possible, idioms and sayings have found their way into our language. Now, because "a picture paints a thousand words", I thought it would be nice to make this a new photo challenge. The idea is to choose an idiom, or a saying, ( even slang is allowed) and illustrate it with a picture. Each week we'll cover two letters of the alphabet, okay?
We covered our first edition last week with A and B, it's here if you need some inspiration.
I have slightly changed the name of this meme, it's now called

" A Thousand Words In Idioms"

If "language is the dress of thoughts" ( Johnson), then idioms must the wardrobe ...

Each week we will cover two letters of the alphabet, and since this is week two, this week's idioms have to start with a C and a D. If you're joining in for the first time, you can either do all four of them or just join in with the letters of this week. That's entirely up to you.
So here we go ....

C is for ...

"Cost an arm and a leg":
If something costs an arm and a leg, it means it's very expensive.
I've found some very interesting theories about the origins of that saying here.

And here's my picture. This display in the window of a tattoo shop made me smile when I was out on a photo walk with a friend of mine last year. I knew I just HAD to photograph it!!

And D is for ...

"Ducks in a row" If you have your ducks in a row, you are well organized.

I've even found a bonus one for the same picture !
" ducks to water" : If you take to something like ducks to water, it means it comes natural to you, like you have a natural affinity for it.
That's interesting, because in In Dutch we would say "you feel like a fish in the water"


So there, I hope you've enjoyed mine, and that maybe I have inspired you to play along!



I am very much looking forward to see what you will come up with!
Now click on the Mr Linky widget to find out who else is in on this, and add your link to your post if you're playing! Thanks!
Links from people who are NOT playing will be removed by me though!!!