English idioms

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4d person
Someone who has a strong sense of individuality and greatly different from the norm.

Your learning idioms that I've never heard

Forged in the fires: created through hardships

Yeah. This native English speaking American has never heard either of those "English idioms" before either!

(a four dimensional person? ?????????????)

When I googled 51/49 I got a bunch of references to Jeramiah 51:49 in the Bible "Babylon will fall because it has slain so many of Israel".

Whatever.

^^I pick them up from here randomly.

Urban Dictionary, excellent .

Hehehehe we need to embrace such things in urban space.

I think they are idioms.

laser focused
To be so intensely focused to be as centered as a laser beam; to be dead-on balls accurate. To be so accurately centered on target that you can't miss.

"Can't see the wood for the trees." = being so overwhelmed by details that the wider context cannot be understood.

"Between a rock and a hard place." or "Between the devil and the deep blue sea"
= Being in a difficult situation which you can't decide a way out of because all of the available choices seem equally bad.

"Better the devil you know." = If you are in a situation where all choices seem equally bad, choose the option that you have the most previous experience with.

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained" = If you do not make an attempt at something, you cannot hope to succeed.

"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink" = There is no guarantee that advice you offer will be taken, no matter how well meaning it is.

- and a local one I hear a lot in Yorkshire still -
"There's nowt as queer as folk." = people are [expletive] complicated creatures. Do not attempt to understand all of their behaviour, for it is a futile pursuit.
(NB - the use of 'queer' doesn't usually have the modern LGBT connotation when used in this phrase - it just means "strange". 'Nowt' is the local dialect for 'nothing')

Lol, be careful with Urban Dictionary. Sometimes they come up with things that most people have never heard of, or that would have totally different meanings in general contexts.

Nice thread, BTW.

^^Yup, I agree with you, Murihiku.

Wouldn't be caught dead - Would never like to do something

Hit the books - to study!

Learn something by heart - to memorize something
Once in a blue moon - something that happens rarely
Adding insult to injury - to worsen a situation that was already bad
Cutting corners - doing something badly to save time or money

Twist someone's arm - Someone has done a great job of convincing you to do something you might not have wanted to to do.