The English Idioms
W hat would life be without wonderful idioms? How many times have you sauteed and flavored your colloquial speech (and or offended someone) by using them? For example.. the ever popular, NO OFFENSE . Like really, you may as well save your breath, because every time someone uses no offense, its always going to be something quite insulting. For Example : No offense , Mark, but your girlfriend is a floozy. Or No one likes your taste in clothes, no offense .. Ridiculous. Its like trying to be frank but apologizing for it, and in the end, you still look like a donkey's butt. It's almost like " Don't take it personal! " but in reality, you are saying it because you want the person to change their persona .. therefore making it wholly personal. Growing up, one of the popular idioms were, "Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but words never will!" What a load of barnacles in disguise. The reality is words can strike deeper than ...