Wednesday, 17 March 2010
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Quote of the day - An Example of not understanding Idioms
When I once told Dannie not to put all her eggs in one basket, she went into the kitchen and took all the eggs out of the fridge and started placing them around the house, I asked her what on earth she was doing, she said "Putting our eggs in different baskets."
As I stopped her (before we ended up with omlette all over the house.)
I had to explain to her what I meant.
I was actually referring to the fact that she had some pocket money and she had it in her mind that she was going to a certian shop to add to her collection of 'Littlest Pets' (which at the time she had hundreds)
But she was going for specific pets, and was determined that these pets would be in this one shop.
All I was trying to explain was that the shop may not have those particular pets and she would have to look in other shops as well. An example of not understanding idioms.
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Ha ha ha... that's funny. My teacher said recently in commenting on a story I wrote for her class, "Just pull those emotions out from the tragic events." I had to ask her to clarify that... did she mean, pull them out as in "remove them" or did she mean pull them out as in "evoke them in the reader"? I honestly was not sure if I had done the assignment correctly to begin with, so I didn't know if she was giving me constructive criticism or a compliment. She wrote back that she had never had someone ask her that before and that she definitely meant the second one. :) I wrote back to her, "Told you I take things very literally. LOL"
That's a cute story.
Both the original post and @keystspf@xanga's response are funny examples.
We have at least one once a day where either myself, my oldest or my youngest has a problem with a "turn of a phrase" or an idiom and understanding it... and for the life of me (heh) I can't think of any.. perhaps because it's 5 a.m. and I haven't gone to bed yet and should. And I will... soon... I promise.
Ah yes, my youngest son said to me as he exited the bathroom (which he always goes potty for monologue time after being sent to bed), "What am I doing here? It's time to hit the sheets!" (a phrase he'd just heard that day). And I could picture was his pounding the sheets on his bed saying "Bad sheets! Take that! and that!" etc. Kind of comical, no?
He also recently said (upon exiting the bathroom after being sent to bed) "Time to go to work on my bed" and all I could think was "I hope he doesn't have a hammer in his room!"...
He and I both enjoy giggling over new phrases that have different meanings than their literal meanings... it's kind of like autistic jokes...
We've had funnier experiences but I just can't think of them right now