Tag Archives: Phrases

Oct19

Inktober – Deal & Arctic

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Inktober – Deal & Arctic

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For this one I used a Pilot – FriXion Clicker 07 – black ink – erasable …and ooly Very Berry Strawberry scented gel pens in yellow and green for the daffodil flower (Daffo-deal?)

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Drawing of the word ‘deal’ in different ways and a few phrases:

What’s the dealio?

Let’s Make a Deal

Big Fat Deal

and a yellow and green daffodil flower ‘daffo-deal?’

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And here’s my drawing of Arctic, with an igloo, two penguins standing outside in the snow

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Aug2

ONE LINER WEDNESDAY

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ONE LINER WEDNESDAY

One-Liner Wednesday – Almost back to normal

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“Mayonnaise shrinks it.”

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Have you ever had a phrase or word that is stuck in your head, that you have to say to yourself, or even out loud, on specific occasions?

This one-liner I have had to repeat to myself for probably the last 45 years or so. My cousin and I were making tuna fish sandwiches one day, and when she added the mayonnaise to the other ingredients in the bowl, she said, “Mayonnaise shrinks it.”

I’d never heard this before, but it’s true. When you add mayo to something, then mush it up, the food seems to get smaller as it is incorporated into it.

Anyway, now I have to repeat this every single time I use mayonnaise.

By the way, how do you say mayonnaise? Do you just shorten it (haha or shrink it) to the word ‘mayo’? Do you say the whole word every time? How do you pronounce it? This is how I grew up hearing it said… Man-aze. 🙂

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Nov10

NABLOPOMO – # 10 – IDIOMS, CLICHES, & PHRASES (LIST) – SAY WHAT?

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NABLOPO – # 10 – IDIOMS, CLICHES, & PHRASES (LIST) – SAY WHAT?NaBloPoMo_2015

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Today I’m going down the alphabet listing a couple of well-known (to most) sayings. You may call them Idioms, or Cliches, or Phrases. I’m going to just stick with sayings…because I do say them a lot. In writing stories, you’re advised against using them, because they are so well-known, they’ve become stale and boring. I get it. However, when you’re writing dialog, you want your characters to sound believable in what they say. My thoughts on this is write how they talk, and if a cliché, or well-known phrase comes out, then that’s fine. 🙂  Anyway, here’s the list of some I found…

A – All brawn and no brain ~ ~ All things being equal ~~ Afraid of your own shadow

B – Back to square one ~~ Bad hair day ~~ Barking up the wrong tree

C – Can of worms ~~ Can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs ~~ Calculated risk

D – Day late and a dollar short ~~ Devil’s advocate ~~ Dead as a doornail

E – Eager beaver ~~ Easier said than done ~~ Eat your words

F – Face the music ~~ Fair and square ~~ Feather in your cap

G – Grin and bear it ~~ Gut feeling ~~ Good as gold

H – Handle with kid gloves – Hang on for dear life ~~ Heard it through the grapevine

I – Icing on the cake ~~ Ignorance is bliss ~~ In the long run

J – Join the club ~~ Jump to conclusions ~~ Jump the gun

K – Keep your fingers crossed ~~ Kick the bucket ~~ Keep your nose to the grindstone

L – Land on your feet ~~ Last but not least ~~ Larger than life

M – Made of money ~~ Make ends meet ~~ Make a mountain out of a molehill

N – Neck and Neck ~~ Needle in a haystack ~~ Next best thing

O – Off the top of your head ~~ One fell swoop ~ Once in a blue moon

P – Packed like sardines ~~ Penny for your thoughts ~~ Piece of cake

Q – Quaking in your boots ~~ Quiet as a mouse ~~ Call it Quits

R – Raise the roof ~~ Raining cats and dogs ~~ Ring a bell

S – Saved by the bell ~~ Scrape the bottom of the barrel ~~ Scratch the surface

T – Take the bull by the horns ~~ Take with a grain of salt ~~ Thick as thieves

U – Uncharted waters ~~ Unvarnished truth ~~ Under your thumb

V – Variety is the spice of life ~~ Virtue is it’s own reward ~~ Vicious circle

W – Walk on eggshells ~~ Wild goose chase ~~ Water off a duck’s back

X – X marks the spot ~~

Y – Yellow-bellied ~~ Your guess is as good as mine

Z – Zero in on__ ~~ Zero tolerance

That’s all for now, but there were lots more. I know I find myself saying quite a few of these. How about you? 🙂

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