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In lugnet.fun, Shiri Dori writes:
> Ahhh, those are good. My dad always used to laugh at the phrase "taking a
> shower" which I confused with "doing a shower" or "showering" (the literal
> translation of the Hebrew phrases). I would translate the English phrase
> literally (at 6, when we came back to Israel) and he used to tell me,
> "you're not picking up the bath and taking it with you!" <grin>
LOL! I never thought of it that way. Hmm, what other "take a ..." idioms
does English have...?
Take a bath
Take a break/breather
Take a guess
Take a shot/stab [at it]
Take a [various euphamisms for expulsion of liquid waste]
Take a [various euphamisms for expulsion of solid waste]
The last two are the strangest ones. And then there are "let a ..." idioms...
Let a [various euphamisms for rapid expulsion of stomach air through mouth]
Let a [various euphamisms for emission of lower-intestinal gas]
I wonder if those originate from "let a ... out" and we've dropped the "out"?
--Todd
[xfut -> .off-topic.fun]
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| (...) Oh, yes. That is a major problem for me, or at least used to be. At first I would translate idioms and phrases, and no one would know what the hell I'm talking about. ;-) ...now I'm pretty accustomed to English slang and phrases, so it happens (...) (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.fun)
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