Hi

Well I have many idioms which I use everyday.The most common one is"scratch someones back"or "as easy as apple pie"or "did you get  up teh wrong side of the bed??".I sometimes think that such personal idioms and proverbs are show the personality of people.What is your idea?I believe that every one has some fixed idims and prover that in different situations they use the idiom they need.I think these idioms  and proverbs or even quotations can reveal that person`s  innermost beliefs and views.What do you think?

OH I have so many!

A new one for me : "Bob's your uncle" ! love it !

"Bless his/her coton socks" love the cute surreal note.

"It's well sick" : not meaning "sick" at all !

"like a flash in the pan" : anything linked to coocking I love

"the air turned blue" : such a great visual atmosphere

"To lay it on a bit thick" : reminds me of my first experience with Marmite

"To have your cake and eat it", because I love cakes

"To have pins and needles", because in French we get ants

"Easy breezy" because it's lovely and it rhymes

"To have the gift of the gab",because it's such a beautiful gift

"To have a chip on one's shoulder": because it's such a funny place for a chip

"Curiosity kills the cat": because cats have 9 lives

"down and out" so short and clear

"Topsy turvey": almost onomatopeic

"Once in a blue moon" :because the moon has the right to hope, too.

I´ve always wondered where the expression "there´s a thousand ways to skin a cat" came from.

For whatever reason I find myself using it all the time. And who skins cats, anyway?

Does anybody out there know how this expression came into existence?

Dear fba:

It´s just amazing to see how terms and expressions evolve with the passage of time! This fact simply suppports that languages indeed are "alive and kicking" . Some terms just perish while others spring up turning the English  language into a universal language or "lingua franca." In regars to the origin of the idiomatic expression in question, I´d like to stick to the one about skinning fish (but then again, we would have to ask the experts ) Thanks for sharing ...

Ernesto

I really like to use the expression "When the going gets tough, the tough gets going" ...Just brightens me up eaach time i say or hear it