[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

It’s a play on “kiwis”

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

It’s about New Zealanders, right?

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

They’re addicted to the tea

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Deep enough to hide until roughly WWI

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

And maybe they killed Amelia Earhart!

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The case was later settled in arbitration.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 124 points 1 month ago

Going off of the shape and what I know of Germany today, beer bottles.

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Things like don’t shake a baby (babies love to be bounced and rocked, which are honestly just gentle shaking, but even moderately vigorous shaking can seriously injure or kill an infant and you should never shake a baby in anger or anything like that) or don’t take anything with you when exiting a building when a fire alarm goes off (don’t go looking for things, but you should still put your coat on if it’s next to you and it’s cold out). What other common maxims are generally good to follow, but over exaggerated? Bonus points if it’s only a well known saying because our instinct is to do the thing, like with rocking babies.

(Please don’t think I’m telling you to shake babies or look for and carry huge stacks of files out of a burning building)

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This is how long it took

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They would fit together perfectly, but they can never be joined.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 122 points 5 months ago

install Pokémon Go

allow all permissions

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 113 points 7 months ago

It stands for female humanoid and is exactly as dehumanizing as it sounds

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 149 points 7 months ago

Chocolate, cinnamon, vanilla, pepper, tea, bananas, and a fuckload of other things that are completely integrated into our regular diets are almost exclusively imported.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 110 points 8 months ago

But to answer your question, yes. If an unbiased translation is impossible (which it is), the solution is to have versions with as many contradictory biases as possible, so they hopefully cancel each other out.

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He writes insane things in all caps that are divisive, instead of hopeful. His products are overpriced, flimsy, and deceptive, instead of cost effective, long lasting, and simple (this isn’t an ad, this is probably not a comparison they’d invite, but I’m happy to reword this if it feels like too strong a recommendation). He takes the worst parts of religion and distorts them to suit his purposes, instead of using just the best parts of various religions and other writers to try and find a universal message.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 97 points 9 months ago

My husband sharpened a friend of mine’s meat cleaver for her. I knew I’d be seeing her at the library later, so I folded it inside cardboard and put it in a reusable shopping bag for her. At no point did I worry about anyone stopping me, and if they had, I would have expected them to believe me about what happened.

Everything went according to plan and I wouldn’t have thought anything of it, if my husband hadn’t been so surprised that I gave her the knife in public.

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Upright Jerker (en.wikipedia.org)
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Basically a reverse gallows with a horrible name

The upright jerker was an execution method and device intermittently used in the United States during the 19th and early 20th century. Intended to replace hangings, the upright jerker did not see widespread use and was withdrawn from use by the 1930s.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 251 points 10 months ago

It’s completely wild that people drink cow hormone juice and then think that soy is affecting their hormones.

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