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Username: 2c2bmore
Post Number: 45
Registered: 5-2006
Posted From: 66.170.157.240
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 - 1:48 pm: | 
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"Many food words, particularily nouns find themselves describing people.If you're tall and skinny they might call you a stringbean. An adored child is the apple of his mother's eye. A ham is a bad actor who's fowl language might be -sour grapes, at family gatherings.
An egghead is an intellectual. A good egg is not the same as an egghead nor is a bad apple
something you can take back to the store.
A couch potato is someone who finds difficulty in removing him/herself from the couch while the
BIG cheeze probably always has someone else make the coffee."
"Then there are the ADJECTIVES;
Some are easy enough ... syrupy?
How do you keep from scratching your head 'though with the idea that fishy can mean suspicious
and chicken means scared or cowardly.
Tell them how consuming certain oxidents can leave you fried or baked - (but not half baked, that's
something else entirely.) Oh, on the subject of baking? When asked the meaning of someone telling
them that they had nice buns?
Desuade them from thinking that "Nice rolls" is a workable synonym for it.
"No doubt about it' the English language, albeit richly expressive comes with its somewhat quirky
vocabulary and it's a tough nut to crack. In fact it's just no piece of cake ...
certainly not everyones cup of tea.
"If it weren't for these occasional moments of hilarity, I'd surely go nuts, or bananas or something."
To quote one torturously miss-quoted axiom,
"...THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING!"
And remember ... The best way to ease the anxity of being overweight is to stay off the scales |