A podcast exploring how idioms connect us with the past and to each other. Hosted by @hrydstrand and @olivesophierose
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Thanks for drawing attention to #periodpoverty in The Quicky podcast today @clairemurph. At @expodcast we took aim at period stigma with this episode about all the weird and whacky idiom for menstruation. Have a listen! expressionists.audio/episode… @sharingdignity
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Women leading the way in podcast listening in Australia according to ABC research released today at #OzPod2018 🎧✊🏼
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Word-trivia of the day: 'umbrage' looks back to the French 'ombrage', shade from the heat of the sun. To give umbrage was to upset someone/darken their lives by 'throwing shade'; to take it was to be duly offended.
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Our mangled idioms:
head over heels (originally 'heels over head')
have your cake and eat it (originally 'eat your cake and have your cake')
a matter of life and death ('life OR death')
cheap at half the price ('cheap at twice the price')
and...don't eat with your mouth full.
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The word that's shuffling to mind this morning: 'dringle', to waste time in a lazy, lingering manner. (Not to be confused with 'spuddling', which is pretending that a trivial task in in fact incredibly important.)
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A small piece of etymology for the day: the expression ‘turn a blind eye’ to something is from the Battle of Copenhagen of 1801, when Horatio Nelson deliberately avoided seeing his commander’s signal to withdraw by putting his blind eye to the telescope. His fleet was victorious.
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Got home to this Muppet-faced man and said "hey my good boy - how are you doing" and for some reason Google Home answered with "flat out like a lizard drinking". So that was weird.
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The first of our finalists are being announced. Congratulations to the finalists in the News & Current Affairs category. #AustraliaListens2018
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The Easter bilby | from the Macquarie Dictionary archive ow.ly/DGEK30jdfqC
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The phrase "the writing on the wall" is a reference to the Old Testament story of the fall of King Belshazzar. merriam-webster.com/words-at…
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someone's complained the phrase IT BEGGARS BELIEF shows "a lack of education" — it does not. this verb form of BEGGAR has existed since the 16th century, it's in shakespeare
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The origins of Pama-Nyungan, Australia's largest family of Aboriginal languages theconversation.com/the-orig… via @ConversationEDU
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#OnThisDay 9 Mar 1870 Granny Smith died. Maria Ann Smith gave her name to a tart green apple supposedly propagated on her Ryde property. She & her family arrived in NSW in 1838 per Lady Nugent, bought 24 acres on the edge of the Field of Mars Common & started an orchard.
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'Woman' began as wīfman, made up of wife, which then meant simply ‘woman’, and man, which meant ‘person’ - a woman was a 'female person' .The womb (Greek 'husterus') is behind 'hysterical', though - hysteria was thought to be down to a 'floating uterus'. xitter.gq/breensqueenx/status/97…
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The Australian Comic Dictionary was written by suffragette Mary Fullerton (a.k.a. Turner O. Lingo) in 1916. ozwords.org/?p=7788 #IWD2018
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Flat out like an echidna drinking… here's the word for echidna in four Indigenous languages :)
