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What is your favorite idiom or expression and why?

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May 22, 2012 at 12:32 pm #100603

Jefsaraurmax
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@jefsaraurmax (Writer with 7297 pts)

What is your favorite idiom or expression and why do you like it? Is it because of the words or because of the meaning? If the expression isn’t in English, please translate it.

May 24, 2012 at 9:19 pm #112929

Myne

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@Myne (Senior Scribe with 24429 pts)

I love quotes on attitude to life and below are some favorites.

Brian Tracy
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Kahlil Gibran
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

William James
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

May 25, 2012 at 1:47 pm #112930

Jefsaraurmax

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@jefsaraurmax (Writer with 7297 pts)

@Myne, I love those quotes, especially the first one. However I meant idioms, not quotes.Please see the link for examples:
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/a.html
One of my favorite French idiom is “on ne prend pas les mouches avec du vinaigre” which translate to “one doesn’t catch flies with vinegar”. I like it because I think that one can get better results from people and a better environment by being nice.

May 25, 2012 at 8:28 pm #112931

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@nicolebassey (Wordsmith with 35835 pts)

Very intriguing topic you have created here Jefsaraurmax. My interest in idioms is primarily their contrasts, for example
The patient dog gets the fatest bone versus the early birdngets the fattest worms :-) .

May 25, 2012 at 10:51 pm #112932

aceDprodigy

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@1prodigy (Junior Writer with 2345 pts)

the reason y “my eyes have seen my ear” is one of my best idioms is due to the situation i find my self, both in my individual life n society as a whole, and they make me just wonder because they are greater than my small self could comprehend.
the other one which is “great oaks from little acorns grow”: is what i use to encourage myself in any situation that i encounter in the pursuit of my dreams n goals in life; after all great men of today did not just become great over night, they still trended the path am trending now. roger that!