Tag Archive | idioms
25 Idioms from the World of Logging
Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
Image: Pixabay A while ago, I had written a post with 45 idioms from the world of boxing. As JSTOR Daily reports, in 1942, writer Elrick B. Davis collected a glossary of terms tied to the old logging tradition. At the time he was writing, the lumber industry had begun to see…
Idioms: To Use or Not To Use? That is the Question
Originally posted on Reflections:
Writers should use cultural idioms when they write. My apologies to William Shakespeare. I stole a quote from his famous play Hamlet and tweaked it in my headline. Would someone unfamiliar with his play understand the quote? Would people unfamiliar with the colloquialisms of each other’s culture understand their blog posts?…
Taipei 101 Nightscape
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
Taipei, all the way to New York I can feel the distance, getting close All I thought about on the airplane Was the way you tasted, teasing me With skin of golden canvases And eyes for Art and pleasing beings In the Twilight of your erotic submission There is a…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 