"American English Idioms - Local Milk People" Topic
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 20thmaine  | 04 Aug 2017 12:24 p.m. PST |
Local Milk People ??? Can someone translate – I only speak English. |
| boy wundyr x | 04 Aug 2017 12:27 p.m. PST |
That's a one person idiom. |
| Cacique Caribe | 05 Aug 2017 7:08 a.m. PST |
Couples have idioms of their own too. Like, whenever we watch a movie where a character seems overly alarmed when they stand on the scale and discover how much they weigh, my wife and I will often say that they've reached "critical masitas". No one else understands what that really means but, then again, it's not meant for everyone else. :) Dan |
| Private Matter | 07 Aug 2017 7:07 a.m. PST |
I think local milk people means dairy farmers. Or it could me milkmen (if any still exist). My wife and I have our own idioms as well, however, I do not use those idioms when I am addressing my clients, gathering of friends, giving public presentations, or any other place where my target audience wouldn't have a clue as to what I was referring. I don't know if I have the quote exactly right but I think it was G.B. Shaw who said something along the lines of: "It is better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt." I may not have it exactly right or credited to the right person but it does make sense. |
| Cacique Caribe | 07 Aug 2017 11:20 a.m. PST |
Private Matter: "It is better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt." Lol. That quote sounds very familiar to me, and not just because it sounds as if the author was rephrasing a passage from Proverbs. :) Dan
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Found it:
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| Private Matter | 07 Aug 2017 1:53 p.m. PST |
Thanks for the clarifying Dan. |
| Cacique Caribe | 07 Aug 2017 3:23 p.m. PST |
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