Writer's Block: Idiomatic Confusion
Nov. 9th, 2008 12:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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If a trip to Urban dictionary can clear these up, I think lj's just gotten lazy. "Waitress in the weeds" means a waitress who's swamped with too many tables. That actually makes sense. Most idioms actually make sense if you think about them long enough.
If a trip to Urban dictionary can clear these up, I think lj's just gotten lazy. "Waitress in the weeds" means a waitress who's swamped with too many tables. That actually makes sense. Most idioms actually make sense if you think about them long enough.
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Date: 2008-11-09 11:02 am (UTC)If you know the origin of the idiom, they have logical roots and meanings. And Canary in a coal mine was just a weak example to even have used at all.