Perhaps you may have spoken or heard some expressions that are part of our vocabulary, but you may not know that they qualify as “idioms”. Let us know why they are so called?
Let's take advantage of the example portrayed in the image, which is associated with a recurrent expression: “elbow pain”. When we pronounce it, we do not try to know the meaning that each word has separately, but rather we understand that it has a global meaning, that is, a meaning seen as a whole, different from the conventional. Thus, it is not a pain itself, but something represented, incorporated in people's minds, whose meaning refers to someone suffering from a passion, liking someone else and not being matched. That's why it's very common to hear something like this:
- So-and-so has an elbow pain!
Did you know there is that person who talks through his elbows?
Speaking through the elbows represents an idiom
Well, not only this one, but also several others express their own meaning. So, so that we can get a little more informed about this subject, how about getting to know some more of them?
Idioms are part of our everyday vocabulary
Friend of the jaguar – a self-interested friend, a traitor.
Walking on clouds – being inattentive, distracted.
Roll up your sleeves – start a job or activity.
Hitting the same key – insisting too much on the same subject.
Crab Mouth – keeping something a secret.
Dick face – shameless, shameless.
Entering the pipe – getting in trouble, getting into something bad.
Wash your hands – don't get involved, leave it as is.
Half-assed – medium to poor quality.
Pay the duck – be held responsible for something you didn't commit.
Hang up your boots – retire, give up something.
Thinking about the calf's death – distracting yourself.
Break the branch – give improvised solutions.
Rotate the Baiana – make scandals.
Holding a candle – disrupting a relationship, being the only single in a circle of couples.
Let go of the pullet – be uninhibited.
Swap the balls – fumble.
Swap feet for hands – act in a hurry, clumsily.
By Vânia Duarte
Graduated in Letters
