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I speak English as second language. Whenever I hear new stuff, I save it to my Anki. Here's my Cool Phrases deck if anyone's interested.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qqaxf29fk8w7035sbn3h0/Cool-Phrases-20260715174206.apkg?rlkey=aoikq8wupm6n4fud4vgur38tr&st=0slo8hox&dl=0

I want to expand this deck. Do you know a phrase that stuck in your mind? Any input is welcome.

Thanks in advance.

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[-] Kennystillalive@feddit.org 24 points 1 week ago

Ain't no way I'm clicking that link...

As for cool phrases, my favourite is: "It's raining cats and dogs" (because it's funny if you imgane it, bit also macabre when you know th reason behind the phrase => back in the days the dead cats and dogs from allays would wash up on the main street when it was pouring down like crazy).

[-] SelfHigh5@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Wow I didn’t know that. Dark.

[-] erayerdin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I didn't know the backstory of cats and dogs being so dark. Wth?

[-] erayerdin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I was looking for a better open-source platform to upload the file. If you suggest any, I could do that. :)

[-] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

You could use https://gitlab.com/timvisee/send, but honestly since there's no well known privacy-friendly platform (catbox.moe is great but only for images/video), it's bound to look sketchy

[-] pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Why not just copy and paste the contents of the file into your post? No need to link a file unless it's yuuuge

[-] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

Me being Catalan, a culture with many poop related phrases and traditions, I'm pretty fond of "when shit hit the fan"

[-] Today@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago
[-] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That one is fun how it goes in Spanish "no metas la polla donde metes la olla", don't put your dick where you put your pot (as in cooking pot).

[-] erayerdin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It's even funnier to imagine it happen lamo

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 11 points 1 week ago

"half assed" was quite funny

[-] raldone01@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Don't half ass it. Full ass it.

[-] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago

It never stops to make me smile that most Germans cannot pronounce "squirrel" properly, while most native English speakers cannot pronounce the same word in German "Eichhörnchen".

Ike cough hyorn chin

How'd I do?

[-] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Despite the many advices from AI, that knot in your tongue won't help.

[-] BigBrownBeaver@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

"Thank you for having me"

It's weird

[-] SCmSTR 2 points 1 week ago

Probably short for "thank you for having me over" or another word implied at the end.

"Thank you for having/picking/tolerating me as your guest"

[-] BigBrownBeaver@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago
[-] SCmSTR 1 points 1 week ago

GIVUS WE THANKIS TOUND YE BLARSTED SHIVAS

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago
[-] BigBrownBeaver@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

"If you had me, you'll be thank"

[-] Today@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

These kids run through the house like shit through a goose.

[-] nocturne@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 week ago

Native English speaker, never heard this one.

[-] Today@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago
[-] SCmSTR 2 points 1 week ago

It definitely sounds both rural and southern

[-] SCmSTR 2 points 1 week ago

Same, but that's hilarious

[-] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago

+1 for it's raining cats and dogs

But also

that's the way the cookie crumbles is just adorable
dinkin flicka just rolls off the tongue
bite the bullet is so raw and literal and
Bob's your uncle is just... No. Who the fuck is Bob 😂

[-] farmgineer@nord.pub 2 points 1 week ago

dinkin flicka

I have never seen this before

[-] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

"When you mess with the bull, you get the horns."

[-] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

"multiple ways to skin a cat"

[-] folekaule@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago
[-] erayerdin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Apparently, "like a fart in ..." is a common thing. There's this website that shows movie scenes with certain phrases: Playphrase.

Have a look at yourself: https://www.playphrase.me/#%2Fsearch%3Fq=like+a+fart+in&pos=0&language=en

I've come across two "like a fart in the church" one, which I did not really understand. I think it is used for unpleasant situations.

[-] SCmSTR 2 points 1 week ago

American here. I live in a Northern urban area, and have never heard this. I wonder if it's regional or old or new. Looked it up, the internet says it's Appalachian, so, Eastern US. I might start using this now hahaha

[-] folekaule@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yep lol. I live in a small rural Ohio town. When I first heard it, it was from a friend's wife and even he had to look it up. She grew up on a small farm nearby.

[-] SoGrumpy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Like a fart in a trance.

[-] nimble@feddit.online 3 points 1 week ago

From the Appalachian region of the US, I bring you:
"I'll cut the blood out of you!"
and more generally within the US (I think?):
"I'll clean your clock!"

Both are threatening a fight, one a little more graphically than the other. I don't think I've heard either in a very long time, and it was only ever from my grandmother that I'd heard the first phrase. Not directly, as in discussing idioms.

[-] 87Six@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

for some reason the nword is stuck in my head and popped up instantly when I read this

-_-

I don't know why

I guess because it's tabboo

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