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Hello to everyone!!!
I just want us, People-who-are-native-english-speakers, to write here idioms, hard-to-understand phrases and so on...
This idea I got from Lampada, who writes those things (in Russian)here
What do you think about it? Is it worth your efforts and time??? :D
When I go to work, I drive on the parkway.
When I get home, I park on the driveway.
Scott
There are probably books and websites for this kind of thing. Why fiddle while Rome is burning? :lol:
If the moon was made of green cheese
I think Википедия can help here. I found an excellent list of Russian idioms with translations, too, great stuff like "between hammer and anvil"... we normally use the dreadful "between a rock and a hard place". Yes, it does sound that lame.
"Between a rock and a hard place" is straight from Scylla and Charybdis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seventh-Monkey
I see nothing wrong with "betwen a rock and a hard place." It sounds just fine to me. And besides, you can say that when you're in a situation where you can't say "They've really got him by the balls!" :wink:
What the sh*t is a parkway?Quote:
Originally Posted by fortheether
Hmmmm..... a cool idiom.........
CLOSE, BUT NO CIGAR!!!! 8)
Quote:
Originally Posted by basurero
Some highways are called parkways. For example:
Palisades Interstate Parkway (between NY and NJ).
Garden State Parkway (From north NJ to south NJ).
Belt Parkway (in NYC).
Scott
Круто. Я не знал об этих паркуейсах. Они проходят национальные парки, что ли?
Sick as a dog
The sh1t hit the fan
Colder than billy hell
Tougher than a three-legged cat trying to bury a turd on a frozen pond
Final nail in the coffin
Harder than a coffin nail
flapping your gums
I'm tired of your lip
Get up off my grill
High as a kite
Yo mama so small she could hang-glide on a dorito
She's got some junk in the trunk
Does her carpet match the drapes?
If there's no grass on the field, play in the mud
Why you all up in my Jello?
Hmm, that's about all I can think of now...
tdk
It's just the name of a highway. "Parkway" can be stuck at the end of basically any highway. It doesn't have to be by a park.Quote:
Originally Posted by basurero
Scott
Quote:
Originally Posted by basurero
Really? That's news to me... I always thought "parkway" was a sort of scenic road, passing through national parks? E.G. The Blue Ridge Parkway. For our Russian readers, national parks are something like лесные заповедники and not парки -- they take up thousands (probably millions total?) of square miles.Quote:
Originally Posted by fortheether
EDIT: Dictionary.com says:
1. Abbr. Pkwy or Pky A broad landscaped highway, often divided by a planted median strip.
I liked that one the most.Quote:
Originally Posted by tdk2fe
Such a graphic picture suddenly stood before my eyes as I read it. Brrrrr :)
Also from my dictionary:
A parkway is a wide road with trees and grass on both sides. (mainly AM).
AM here stands for American English.
I assure you that this parkway:Quote:
Originally Posted by Barmaley
http://gsp.hokietravelers.com/My_Homepa ... Page1.html
Has nothing to do with any national parks or any other parks. Unless you consider a tool booth to be a park. It does have grass and trees a lot of the way though. Also I fail to see many parts that are scenic.
This one:
http://www.nycroads.com/roads/henry-hudson/
has parts in downtown Manhattan where I think trees/grass are against the law.
Scott
You sure about these, tdk?Quote:
Originally Posted by tdk2fe
Actually now I understand. Any part of New Jersey that's not toxic-sludge infested is considered to be a "natural place." :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by fortheether
Challenger: Sure about what? They aren't all necessarily idioms, but Chuvak wanted idioms and other hard-to-understand phrases.
tdk
Now you got it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Barmaley
Say - are there any toll booths in Russia?
don't cry over spilt milk
that's water under the bridge
- what's past is past
so and so won't do this for "all the tea in China"
- means that person's really not gonna do it
such and such is an "albatross around your neck"
- something that's dragging you down
always a bridesmaid, never a bride
close but no cigar
- always coming close but not quite getting there
any tom, dick, and harry
- any regular guy
she's the "apple of my eye"
- she's very special
you're "beating a dead horse"
- it's over, you've made your point, now shut up
she came to the tennis court in her "birthday suit" lol
- means she's naked
btw - my two cents (that's another idiom, means my little contribution to the discussion) parkways are scenic driveways through a park, but parkways can also mean pretty much a highway without any reference to any nearby parks.
I heard a scottish guy yesterday talking about a race car driver that wasn't very good, he said "he couldn't drive a nail into wood". Couple that with the amusing way scottish people talk and I thought it was hillarious.
Close enough only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Scott
Are you sure that they're in common use?Quote:
Originally Posted by tdk2fe