Students speak of junior and senior high English class time spent learning those scintillating idioms of "raining cats and dog" or "frog in the throat", rather than more useful and contemporary Anglo English. Reference to Google's ngram shows the utility of learning such arcane phrases of an early era. Perhaps it's an unreflective edutainment method to look at seeming out-group English language oddities to succor support to "conquer English" in the spirit of the China Youth Anti-Communism National Salvation Corps (中國青年反共救國團) being bandied about this week in Taipei.
An educated scholar knows that students can develop a love to learn without casting differences as oddities - rather it reveals the baseness of the educator/provocateur employing such techniques.
90 Idioms About Tools found in the subscribable blog Daily Writing Tips provides a set of useful idioms associated with tools. These include:
1–5. angry/mad enough to chew nails/spit nails or ready to eat nails: enraged
10. ax to grind: grudge or motive
65–66. screw around/off: waste time or act aimlessly
83. take a hammering: suffer a severe attack or loss
86. tools of the trade: whatever is associated with, or required to do, a job
Take a look fellow student, as we all seek to learn and further enjoy our world :)
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