0:26

Hello Internet, I'm your husband host Travis

0:28

McElroy. And I'm your wife host, Teresa McElroy.

0:31

And you've been listening, no you are listening to

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Shraners. It's extraordinary

0:35

etiquette. For ordinary occasions, hello my dove. Hello

0:38

dear. Ugh, see here's what happened.

0:40

Can I tell you what happened? Okay. I

0:42

hit like a mental speed bump, a mental pothole,

0:45

where as my brain was

0:47

like, hey, say the thing about you're listening

0:49

to Shraners, another part of my brain went, oh,

0:52

our voice is kind of croaky because we've been sick

0:54

and talking a lot and should we address

0:56

that on the show? And those two

0:58

ideas happened at the same time and they

1:01

bounced off each other in such a

1:03

way that made me just jump right to the end of the show?

1:05

You know, that

1:07

is perfectly relatable. That is something

1:10

that also happens to me. What I want to

1:12

ask is, just now, you

1:14

referred to yourself as we and us.

1:18

What did I say? You did. Well,

1:20

because you were talking about the

1:22

two different things bouncing off each other. As

1:26

you were talking about yourself, talking to

1:28

yourself, you said, we.

1:30

Did I? Yeah. Oh,

1:33

I didn't even notice. I think that's amazing. Do you

1:35

think of yourself as we? Some people do. I

1:38

guess I do. Because in the past, I've talked about

1:41

the three different Travises in time

1:44

of the decisions past Travis makes impact

1:47

present Travis and he gets mad at

1:49

past Travis, but he can't do anything past Travis, so he

1:51

punishes future Travis. I

1:53

do that less now that I'm almost 40 years

1:56

old. I don't punish future

1:58

Travis as much as I love him.

1:59

future Travis when trying to protect him at all

2:02

costs. But I guess I do

2:04

kind of think of myself in the Royal We a little bit.

2:06

Some people do. It depends I think

2:08

on how my brain is operating that day because

2:11

there's some points where like we're all working together

2:13

and then there's some points where it's

2:15

just so well.

2:19

Very interesting. I think

2:21

that I think about myself

2:23

as divisions so a part

2:25

of this and a part here and a part there so

2:28

it's never a we it's an I that

2:31

is divided.

2:31

Okay. Yeah. Well thanks for

2:33

listening everybody. That's gonna do it.

2:36

No and the reason

2:38

why I'm asking

2:40

you that is because this is an

2:42

idiom show. Mmm. And

2:45

the you know I think that the

2:47

Royal We has spawned a lot

2:49

of idioms. Not any that we're talking about

2:51

today but I also don't

2:53

fully

2:53

I you said just like when it

2:56

says like we are not amused

2:58

like

2:59

it's just her frightening ourselves right but it's in

3:01

a more like a hoity-toity

3:03

your kind of way.

3:04

I mean I guess so. I suppose

3:07

when when the Queen talks

3:09

about we she talks about

3:11

herself as the head of

3:14

a United of a state. Oh okay.

3:16

As all of the people. Okay. Hey. The

3:19

representative. That's not what we're talking about.

3:21

No it's not. Let's get give me that

3:23

first idiom and I'll see if I know what I mean. Okay.

3:25

Well first of all I have to say thanks. Of course.

3:27

Thank you to everyone who sent in idioms.

3:30

Alex was doing some some

3:33

real good deep dive in into all

3:35

of your great submissions. Keep them coming. Quick

3:38

recap.

3:39

What is an idiom?

3:40

An idiom is a group of words

3:45

established by usage as having

3:47

a meaning not deducible from the meaning

3:49

of the individual words. Right. I

3:52

was very interested to try and

3:54

figure out the difference between idioms and slang

3:58

where I think that the main difference The

4:00

difference is slang

4:02

is often used as a way

4:05

to speak within a subculture. A

4:08

group of people may be in business. They have business

4:10

slang, student slang, things

4:13

like that.

4:14

But I also think that there's

4:16

a simpler difference,

4:19

right? Where slang, no matter

4:21

what it starts off as, slang,

4:24

the definition of the slang when you use it

4:26

is the thing you're doing, right? If

4:29

you say, oh, that's hot, right? In

4:32

the usage of it, you're saying, that is a good thing that

4:34

I like, right? It doesn't have,

4:36

as

4:37

opposed to if you say, a bird in the hand,

4:39

right? Or let the cat out of the bag, right?

4:42

That has a different meaning

4:45

that then comes to be used

4:47

something else, right? Those individual

4:50

words don't gather

4:52

a meaning that means the thing you're using.

4:55

If you say,

4:55

that's hot, the

4:57

meaning is

5:00

maybe that it's warm to the touch. But

5:02

what I'm saying is it comes to slang,

5:05

adds that definition to the word, right? Where

5:09

using, let the cat out of the bag, those

5:12

individual words, like cat,

5:14

doesn't become secret, right?

5:17

Bag, doesn't become public

5:19

or whatever, right? You're not changing the

5:21

definition of those words.

5:22

Yes, and also slang is often

5:25

just spoken where idioms are

5:27

used in written word as well. So, okay.

5:30

Here's the first one. What's

5:32

good for the goose is good for the gander. And

5:36

sometimes people will say the opposite. What's good

5:38

for the goose isn't always

5:40

good for the gander. So when

5:42

I hear this, I think about it like

5:44

the definition in context, right? Of

5:47

like if a husband

5:49

is like, I'm going to go hang out with my friends, right?

5:52

And then the next day, the woman's like, well, what's

5:54

good for the goose is good for the gander. Tonight, I'm going

5:56

to hang out with my friends and get drunk and party,

5:58

right? what I think it means

6:01

of like,

6:02

oh well if you get to do it, then I get to do

6:04

it. Sure, sure.

6:06

It's saying that something that's good

6:08

for you is probably good for somebody else too.

6:11

Yeah, it's usually, I always think

6:13

of it in the context of it's a little bit like

6:15

retribution eat almost like punitive,

6:17

a little bit of like, oh so

6:20

you get to go out and party but I don't? Nuh

6:22

uh uh, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. Oh

6:24

okay. That's how I think of it.

6:26

Sure, I guess so. If it's good

6:28

for you in any way that's good. It's

6:31

good for somebody else too. But it's

6:31

kind of like if you get to do it, I get to do it.

6:34

Yeah.

6:34

Thank you Micah for submitting

6:36

this. Here's the thing. Some

6:39

people also say what's good for the goose

6:42

isn't always good for the gander. Meaning

6:45

that two people in a similar situation

6:47

don't have the same needs.

6:48

The gander is a female

6:50

goose, a male goose. The opposite, yes. Oh

6:53

okay.

6:53

The gander is the male of

6:56

the goose species. Sure. Um,

7:00

and so we have this phrase because

7:03

of

7:03

cooking. Oh, I

7:06

would have guessed farming.

7:07

Well goose was a very popular thing

7:09

to farm for

7:11

and to eat because of farming.

7:13

And for a long time, especially

7:16

if you're talking about like Britain, go

7:18

to bird for fancy things they weren't doing turkey. It

7:20

did indeed. Turkey was an American thing. And

7:23

so if you're doing, you know, Christmas, you're

7:25

doing Easter, you're doing these things and

7:27

you wanted to cook a bird for it, you're doing goose.

7:29

That's right. And the male goose, like you said,

7:31

is called the gander. So the phrase started as a

7:33

joke about the way that you served the

7:36

meat. The sauce that you made for a female

7:38

bird was going to be just as good on the male bird

7:41

because their meat was basically the same. Sure.

7:44

However, over the years

7:46

the phrase has evolved in some

7:48

very interesting ways. In

7:51

some cases, the geese is completely

7:53

eliminated. What's good for the woman is also

7:56

good for the men. Right? Sure.

7:59

Also, like we said. Good for the goose isn't

8:01

always good for the gander meaning the opposite

8:04

of those ways but

8:07

I don't think that's Necessarily

8:09

the correct use of the idiom.

8:10

Yeah, I don't make sense that

8:12

way sure But it feels like that's

8:14

a completely different thing

8:17

like okay Yeah, that's a new turn

8:19

of phrase based off of an existing idiom,

8:21

right not a different form of the same idiom

8:24

yeah, yeah,

8:25

and maybe it got switched

8:27

into woman and men or group

8:30

and it feels like a thing and all that kind of stuff

8:32

because people forgot what a gander is

8:34

it also Kind of feels like a thing the second

8:36

one that's different version for some reason

8:38

it gives me this vibe of like they would say that

8:41

To like fight women's suffrage or like

8:43

for pro of like well What's

8:46

good for the goose is good for the gander? She puts that well,

8:48

well now hold on

8:50

What's good for the goose isn't always good for

8:52

the guy, right? I don't

8:54

like that because the first version is like feels

8:56

like saying like we're equal and

8:59

the second one's like well, hold on

9:05

But I do like it in the way of using

9:08

what one person wants might not

9:10

be what everybody wants sure I like

9:12

that Yeah, but

9:13

you can just say different strokes or different folks at that point.

9:16

That's true. That's a much better way to say it

9:18

speaking of male geese Okay,

9:21

here's another thing. Okay submitted

9:23

by Taylor Take a gander

9:26

at

9:27

Can I tell you I?

9:29

Didn't even think of that as an idiom Oh,

9:31

yeah Now I'm kind of going back and back

9:34

paddling what I said earlier about changing the definition

9:36

of thing Whenever I've heard just take a gander

9:38

at I just thought of gander as another word for look

9:41

Take a gander at is it because of the long neck

9:43

and they can like swivel around and look at things.

9:46

Yeah Take a gander

9:48

at this means like look at this, but it's usually

9:50

used in like a you're not gonna believe

9:52

this Or like whoa, take a gander

9:55

that there's usually an element of

9:57

surprise down a little

9:59

bit

9:59

extraordinary like, oh,

10:03

you think you know all about it? Well, take a gander at this, right?

10:05

Mm-hmm.

10:06

So it started to pop up in publications

10:09

around the 1800s, but it

10:11

really made its home first in slang,

10:13

right, and around the

10:15

turn of the century, last century. So

10:18

it was common to hear the phrase in the

10:20

early 1900s, and like you said,

10:22

it was a play on the way that geese would

10:25

stretch their necks out to look at something.

10:28

Isn't it interesting how

10:30

that, how take a gander at, right,

10:33

take a look at from the goose stretching,

10:36

didn't turn into take a goose

10:38

at?

10:38

Well,

10:40

I have to think by then maybe they were already using

10:43

goose for like pinching a bottom or something, you know

10:45

what I mean? Oh, because the way goose bites. Yeah, so

10:47

like, oh, you goose them, and you know, like take a goose

10:49

at this could be very confusing. Very confusing.

10:51

Right? It's true. That's interesting

10:53

to me because I immediately pictured like

10:56

anytime, like I was thinking about like

10:58

Charlotte's lab and stuff like that. Anytime

11:00

there's like an anthropomorphic,

11:03

they do have them do that like, hmm, what?

11:06

They seem very nosy in their

11:08

way that they do it. So it immediately

11:11

made sense.

11:11

Here's another one. Tuckered

11:14

out. I have often

11:15

heard plum tuckered out. Oh, I say this one all

11:17

the time. Yeah. This means just like I'm worn out,

11:19

I'm tired, I could fall right asleep, I'm exhausted,

11:21

I don't want to go anymore.

11:22

Yes. Feya suggested

11:25

this one and it again came from

11:27

the mid 1800s. First showing up in 1939 in the Wisconsin Inquirer.

11:29

Can I guess? Is it like

11:35

related to like being tucked in?

11:37

I

11:39

mean, maybe, but

11:43

not really. There's a few options.

11:45

Okay.

11:46

So in the newspaper they wrote,

11:48

I reckoned to have got to the tavern

11:51

by sundown, but I'll have it as

11:53

I'm prodigiously tuckered out.

11:55

Okay.

11:56

So one option is that

11:58

the word tuck. derived from an

12:01

old English word meaning to punish

12:03

or torment. Making

12:05

sense in the way of like being tuckered

12:08

out is usually indicative that your body can't take

12:10

anymore. Oh, okay. Yeah, I've

12:12

put it to the limit. I can't anymore.

12:14

You've been tormented to your limit, right?

12:16

And now you have to go to sleep. But there is another one. Tucker

12:21

is an occupational surname referring

12:23

to weaving. It means

12:26

cloth softener or cloth weaver

12:28

in German.

12:29

It's got to be related to tucking someone in,

12:31

right? If you're talking about cloth and

12:33

you're putting a cloth over somebody and tucking them in,

12:36

it has to be related, right? Sure, but it's tuckered

12:38

out, not tucked in. I'm just

12:40

saying, but the fact that tuck is there in both

12:43

has to be connected, right? Or perhaps

12:45

that weaving is

12:47

a full body activity. Okay. You

12:51

have to warp the

12:54

loom. You have to loop the threads. You

12:56

have to beat back the threads. And it's

12:58

not uncommon for weavers to experience

13:00

shoulder pain or general body discomfort

13:03

after doing a repetitive motion like this

13:05

for a long time. So it could

13:07

be the phrase tuckered out comes from a person who is

13:09

exhausted from weaving too much.

13:11

Okay. Yeah. People

13:14

probably don't think of that now, but a loom is like a giant machine

13:16

that you're like stretching out fully,

13:18

stepping over, grabbing. It's

13:21

a lot of work if you've never seen it done.

13:24

Absolutely. Here's another one.

13:26

Foot the bill.

13:28

Okay. Suggested

13:29

by Therese. Once again,

13:31

this is blowing my mind because tuckered out,

13:34

foot the bill and take a gandar. I would not

13:36

have thought of a sitium. It just feels like,

13:39

those are things you say. Yeah. So

13:41

foot the bill is like you're paying for everything,

13:44

but usually once again, in kind of a grandiose

13:46

way, like you would say like, yeah,

13:48

it was a big lavish wedding and the father-in-law's

13:51

footing the bill, right? It

13:53

wouldn't just be like, I'd like you to take a gandar and I'm going

13:56

to foot the bill. Like you wouldn't really say it that way.

13:58

It's usually like, it was very exciting. Expensive

14:00

and they paid all of that.

14:01

Yes This actually comes

14:04

from bookkeeping which makes sense

14:06

to me right because it's about Paying

14:08

a paying a bill is something that you

14:10

would put down in your bookkeeping But

14:13

the phrase comes from the 1800s when

14:16

we still added up expenses in ledgers,

14:19

right? Great big books So

14:21

the total of an account was always written at

14:23

the bottom of the page, which is typically called

14:26

the foot, right? The

14:28

header and the footer. Oh, why yeah

14:30

person who footed or added

14:32

up the total Was responsible

14:34

for paying the bill that

14:35

makes so much sense. Yeah,

14:38

I look can I tell you? It

14:40

satisfies the heck out of my When

14:44

the idiom Like

14:47

origin is so cut and dry

14:49

like that. We have some some times There's like

14:51

well, it could be this it could be that or it could

14:54

be this Well, all those kind of make

14:56

sense But when you have one is like

14:58

it's this oh

15:02

So even though we got rid of that

15:04

in accounting We don't usually keep great

15:06

book books and footers and all

15:08

kinds of ledgers like that. We did keep

15:11

the face phrase

15:11

There's a word for that and I can't

15:13

is a knack. It sounds like anachronism

15:16

But it's not when there's a thing that

15:18

like is outdated and we still

15:21

do Like for

15:23

example when you take a picture using

15:25

an app and it makes a camera shutter

15:27

sound Right or like when you type

15:30

onto the keyboard of a phone and it makes clicks right?

15:32

You're like if there's no reason to do that Except

15:35

that that's what it used to do. Mm-hmm. And

15:37

so that's got to be something like that I mean,

15:38

it's the same reason why when you

15:41

call someone and Like

15:43

the picture of the of the phone,

15:45

right? You look at my at my phone here

15:48

The picture of the phone is that the

15:51

handset of like

15:53

a rotary telephone

15:54

Mm-hmm, but people don't

15:56

really use those anymore. But we know that

15:58

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Our next one is eyes peeled,

19:21

suggested by David.

19:23

Well, this is like you're on

19:25

the lookout, right? You're looking around, but

19:27

you're not just looking for something. It's

19:29

more saying, like, be

19:31

aware, right? Be on guard.

19:34

Be ready

19:37

to see something. Keep your eyes peeled.

19:39

Yes,

19:40

although, it's up

19:43

for debate. It could be a reference

19:45

to

19:45

fruit peels. Right, that's what I thought,

19:47

because I immediately picked your grapes. Yes,

19:49

once you've peeled the fruit, it is completely

19:51

open. Right? More

19:54

likely, it's an exaggeration of

19:56

suggesting that you will peel back your eyelids

19:58

so nothing can impede.

19:59

your vision.

20:01

Oh well those feel connected though

20:03

don't they? A little bit right? Like you're talking about

20:05

peeling back your eyelids like you would peel the

20:07

skin of a fruit like I don't think that those

20:10

are separate ideas. Okay. Right

20:12

I don't think it might not be a direct reference to a

20:14

peel like you're the peel of your eyes so

20:17

much as you're peeling back the eyelids

20:19

like you would an orange

20:21

or something.

20:22

Right but it it suggests

20:26

maybe a earlier turn of phrase

20:28

was keeping your eyes skinned. Nope.

20:32

That

20:35

feels like a threat though. I know. That's why it

20:37

feels different because that feels like something that

20:39

we're talking like 1500s right and you're like a

20:43

tough like leader of an army you're like a Genghis

20:45

Khan type right if you're casting

20:47

for it you'd be like I want a Genghis Khan type

20:50

and he would like look at the soldiers and be like if

20:52

anyone gets through here it's like

20:54

I'm gonna flay you

20:56

so you better keep your eyes skinned or

20:58

I'll skin you. That feels like a thing

21:00

right?

21:01

Which I think I mean to my ear

21:03

that has one of those like

21:08

opposite meaning kind of things like quite

21:10

and quite right where if something

21:13

is we know something is skinned

21:15

the skin is removed. Yeah.

21:17

But when you think about keeping your eyes skinned

21:20

I almost think

21:21

about. Well because you would skin a drum to put

21:23

the lid on. I would think

21:24

keeping the skin on top of

21:27

your

21:27

eyeball. Once again, contronyms. They're

21:30

called contronyms where you would say like

21:32

that's not quite it right or like.

21:35

Or

21:36

something was quite good across the pond.

21:38

Yeah. Does not mean that it was very good.

21:40

Well there's one I'm trying to remember I think it's like fast

21:43

right where stuck fast means it's

21:46

stuck still right but you're running

21:48

fast means you're actually moving very quickly.

21:51

Indeed. But I

21:53

still think that there though if you're saying

21:55

keep your eyes skinned and using that terminology

21:58

it feels like there's an element of fear in it.

21:59

Right. Yes. Like

22:02

keep your eyes scanned or else. Some say that this expression

22:04

came from the British police in

22:07

the early 1800s. In 1829,

22:10

the first professional police force was

22:12

established in London by Home Security

22:14

Secretary Sir Robert Peel.

22:17

Well.

22:18

So shortly after, police officers

22:21

started to be referred to as peelers

22:23

since they reported everything they saw back to

22:25

Sir Peel at his office,

22:26

right? So keeping your eyes

22:28

peeled could be related to the idea

22:31

of the cops keeping a close watch to

22:33

report their findings back to Peel.

22:35

Mm-hmm. This makes a lot of sense because did

22:37

you know TSA was founded

22:40

by George See Something, Say Something?

22:44

This is also why British cops

22:46

are called bobbies because Sir

22:49

Robert Peel. Okay.

22:51

Right.

22:52

I feel like British people have

22:54

so much more fun with like slang in terms

22:56

of phrase versus like, yeah, we're going to

22:58

call them b

23:42

their

23:50

winner and until the very last

23:53

possible moment. And

23:55

so this was extended into figurative language

23:58

around 1900 and we say it all. the time

24:01

today. I

24:01

can't believe I got that. I

24:03

feel pretty good. Though to be fair, it's

24:06

not a strong leap

24:08

to go like, okay, this is about timing a thing,

24:10

about down to the last second. It's

24:13

probably like a racing thing. It's

24:15

not that big a leap, but I'm still impressed

24:17

with myself constantly.

24:20

Here are some fun phrases from other families

24:23

around the world that they're

24:25

probably idioms. Lauren

24:28

M. wrote in some Australian.

24:30

I

24:31

love Australian slang. I was just talking about this on

24:33

my brother and my brother and me. I'm like, Australian

24:35

slang is wild and great and I love it so

24:37

much.

24:38

The Australian equivalent

24:40

to this guy is

24:42

this little black duck.

24:45

That's great.

24:46

That's great.

24:48

I love how evocative

24:50

it is, right?

24:51

Who has cheap dumbs and is awesome? This

24:53

is a little black duck.

24:56

Then swings

24:58

and roundabouts is something

25:00

that one says when you have two options

25:02

that are both of equal value.

25:04

You could either

25:07

play on the swings or go around.

25:10

I guess so. A roundabout, I think, is

25:12

a word for... I don't want to say merry-go-round,

25:14

but that's not it. You know that thing, which is like

25:17

a big circle? That little push wheel. That kids

25:19

hold onto the bars and you spin as fast as you can to see

25:21

who flies off.

25:22

Here's another one. Better

25:24

than a slap in the face with a wet fish.

25:27

Now,

25:28

I've heard versions... I don't know

25:30

if I've heard that exact one, but

25:33

better than a slap bottom is one I've heard before.

25:35

Or better than a slap in the face. Better than a slap

25:37

in the face, yeah, but I like better than a slap in the face with a

25:39

fish.

25:40

Yeah, I mean it's very colorful,

25:42

isn't it? Yeah, one of my favorites.

25:44

I think that anything is better than

25:46

a slap in the face with a wet fish.

25:48

I can think of things that are worse than that, where

25:50

if somebody was like, would you rather have this happen or

25:52

I can slap you in the face with a wet fish? I'd be

25:54

like, okay, I'm afraid of a wet fish. Is this

25:56

the thing? I'll try to censor this,

25:58

but is... is like

26:01

how are you feeling? And you're like, I feel like 10

26:03

pounds of crap in a nine pound bag, right?

26:06

Is that a thing other people say? I

26:08

don't know. Okay. I've heard you

26:10

say that. Okay, because I've also said better than a fart

26:12

in the face. Yep. That's one I've definitely

26:14

said. Yep. Here's one from Bake Off last week.

26:17

A bag of pants.

26:18

Now you have to understand, American

26:21

listeners, pants

26:23

in British is underpants.

26:26

Right, because in American,

26:28

we would say pants as the outer layer. Yeah. But

26:31

those are trousers. Or

26:33

slags. Yeah.

26:37

Maybe. Okay. Okay, so Emily

26:39

S. Roden, to say

26:42

that if you have an itchy nose around

26:45

your mom or aunt, they'll say

26:47

you're going to kiss a fool.

26:48

I don't know that

26:50

one. I think it's the same thing of where, like,

26:52

if your ears are burning.

26:53

Oh yeah, someone's talking about you, or you shiver

26:55

and it's like, oh, someone walked over your grave. Right.

26:57

It's an old wives' tale, that

27:00

if you have an itchy nose, it's a sign that the

27:02

next person you kiss is

27:04

a fool.

27:05

Oh, because they kiss so bad, they're gonna hit you

27:07

in the nose? I'm not quite sure. I

27:11

think that it's just a phrase to

27:13

get people to stop scratching their face. You

27:15

know, like,

27:16

picking their nose or whatever, it's gonna get stuck up there.

27:18

Or like, you're digging for gold.

27:19

Older versions of this phrase is,

27:21

Oh, like when someone's scratching their butt and you say, or you go to the

27:23

movies, and then you say, why? And you go, oh, because you're picking

27:25

your teeth. That's good. Yeah.

27:28

The older version is that,

27:31

scratch your nose and you'll kiss

27:33

a fool. So I guess that just means that,

27:38

don't scratch your nose or you'll,

27:40

the next person you kiss is not nice. When you were growing

27:43

up, did you ever like,

27:44

anytime I saw somebody

27:46

like play with crutches, like if somebody

27:48

had crutches, like, because they got hurt, and you

27:50

know, like borrow from a friend and you start like using them,

27:53

like, I would have had crutches. Like, I would

27:55

have adults that are like, Oh, if you do that, you'll

27:57

be the next one to like, regular, like you'll be the next one

27:59

to like, regular.

27:59

to get hurt. Oh because it's very easy

28:01

to fall off crutches. That's what I never put together

28:04

until I got older where I was like oh it's like bad blood. And

28:06

I got older and I was like oh no

28:08

because like you're racing around on crowd

28:10

what are you doing? And I never put

28:12

it like I was just like oh then again I also

28:15

had a teacher who

28:17

told me if I wrote on my hands with pen because

28:19

that's how I used to keep notes when I was like a little that

28:21

I would get in poisoning which doesn't

28:24

exist. Is that a no? That was my healthy teacher

28:26

who told me that.

28:28

Marie wrote in

28:30

to say that she's heard her grandma say

28:33

this is hog

28:35

heaven but honey I'm kosher. Oh

28:37

I've definitely heard hog heaven. I

28:39

haven't heard that whole thing. Meaning

28:40

that everyone else is having fun but they're

28:42

not.

28:43

Hey can I tell

28:45

you sad but a great

28:47

turn of phrase. That's really good.

28:49

Yeah. Yeah. A

28:52

great turn of phrase.

28:54

Here are

28:56

some Scandinavian idioms.

28:59

Some of the best.

29:00

Submitted by Grant. In

29:02

Denmark you can have a bear

29:04

on. Ooh.

29:05

Which means to be tipsy

29:07

or drunk. Oh I was just learned

29:10

there was a Victorian slang

29:12

if you're like half drunk

29:14

call half rats.

29:16

Half rats. Yeah R A T S.

29:18

Like oh man I'm feeling half rats right now.

29:21

I think I need to stop. I got to work in the morning

29:23

and I'm feeling real half rats.

29:25

A hard banana

29:28

is to be a tough guy.

29:31

Once again a weird thing to

29:33

say to somebody if you're like oh yeah man

29:35

I would never mess with you. You're a real hard banana.

29:38

What? What'd you say to me? I'm gonna actually beat

29:40

you up now.

29:41

Here's one from Sweden. There's

29:44

no cow on the ice. Means

29:47

don't worry. Oh

29:48

okay but

29:50

no it's fine because if a cow's on the ice you'd

29:52

be worried that the cow would break through the ice

29:55

and you'd all go in the water.

29:56

I mean I don't understand how many

29:59

cows are really wandering around on frozen

30:02

ponds. But there's what I'm saying. If I saw a frozen

30:04

pond and there was a cow standing in the middle, I would think

30:06

somebody's got to do something about this. Okay. Okay.

30:09

Or like especially if I was on the ice doing something

30:12

and I turned and right behind me was a cow, I'd be

30:14

like, oh no. Yeah. This ice is definitely

30:17

not rated for me and the cow to be out here.

30:19

Here are some Cajun

30:22

idioms or sayings. This

30:25

one's a little dirty. Mm-hmm.

30:29

But, and I am going

30:31

to not do very well at

30:33

these Cajun pronunciations because they're not

30:36

quite French. Yeah. Right? It's Creole.

30:40

Leirma, Lehr-em-er,

30:42

Donchu.

30:44

Which is? Which means

30:45

a tear in the eye and

30:47

a poop in the butt. Oh,

30:49

wow. Okay. Which means

30:52

that you're full of crap.

30:53

Oh, okay. I was going to

30:55

say, like, sounds like you're having a real bad day.

30:59

It was said by

31:01

Journey, their mother

31:04

or grandmother would say that when they wanted

31:07

to stay home from

31:07

school. Oh, because you're like,

31:09

oh, I feel so bad. Well,

31:12

there's a tear in your eye, but there's a poop in your butt. Right.

31:14

I love that. That's great.

31:15

Yeah. Another one is, and

31:18

I've heard this before in a very general

31:21

kind of Southern way, is

31:23

how you mom and them, meaning

31:26

how is your mother and their family. Oh, very

31:28

sure. Yeah. Right. And

31:30

then a useful word is

31:34

lanyep,

31:35

which means something extra, a

31:38

little sprinkle in there.

31:40

And

31:43

then the last one I wanted to

31:45

say was, according to

31:47

Journey, a favorite pastime

31:49

of Cajun's is to have a fade the

31:51

dough,

31:52

which

31:54

translates to go to sleep.

31:57

But in reality, it's what is called

31:59

a.

31:59

late night party. Oh, yeah.

32:02

Okay.

32:03

I like I don't like late night party anymore.

32:06

Ask me when I'm younger. Now. Oh,

32:08

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