Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Fun Idiom Websites

I have been reading journal posts by my Spring 2018 Introduction to Sociolinguistics students, and they have been not only encouraging, but inspiring. Thanks to them, I found some great websites -- both academic and humorous. I'll list a few here, and add more as I run across them:


The Cream of the Crop: Have you ever noticed how many English idioms are based on food?
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-food-idioms.html



He Who Smelt It, Dealt It...and dozens of variations:
http://werbach.com/stuff/smelt.html



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