This blog is my participating in Mishaikh's challenge about using idioms. I chose writing about food-idioms.
I'm going to spill the beans about how much I had to use my noodle to create some sentences by using food idioms. It was not a piece of cake because my sentences should not appear too cheesy.
But then, I told myself "Hey, just try to be as cool as a cucumber. Writing is your cup of tea. What are you afraid of?".
In a nutshell, my writings are still amateurish, and they never will be sold like hot cakes because they are not what we call a big hit.
I am sure I can't bring home bacon with my writings because I am not one of the creams of the crop of writers.
Interesting plots are the bread and butter of a good story.
No one gets served its success handed on a silver platter.
I am not of them who butter someone up for having any benefits.
I'm nuts about writing, and so I will try to spice the things up in my stories much more than before.
But I don't put all of my eggs in one basket, because in case I am failing, I don't want to cry over spilled milk.
*** Something is a big hit = something is very popular.
You can see the food-idioms under the following link:
Comments
You're welcome, Satya. I do the best I can.
Dear Evangelina.
Your comment on my post makes me glad.
I am happy to see you here again on this site.
But, please, do not praise me too much...maybe I could become too conceited...lol.
Mishaikh, thanks a lot for your valuable comment on my post.
I am sure each language is full of idioms, phrases, and proverbs.
Understand those idioms, immediately, is often difficult because we can't always translate them literally.
That's why I try to express myself without using idioms.
(In this way, I try to avoid misunderstandings if I use the idioms, wrongly. I don't want to be the silly reason of laughers....hahaha.)
Nevertheless, it's quite important to understand those idioms because they are an important and often used part of our languages.
I'll try to write another post about idioms.
I'm going to send you the link after the post will be finished
This is an art to express yourself.............in here you have expressed your humbleness how you feel about your English. The use of idioms is not as easy as the plain words or phrases. But with a lot of reading one can get a picture.
I want to tell here that the old ladies of my (old society) who were academically literate but they were expert in using idioms of their daily language. (Of course in Urdu....my native). I mean in their case the 'listening' worked, in literate people's case the reading works.
Thanks for your participation in the writing challenge Rose Iris Will.
Haha, dear Svitlana.
Thanks for your comment.
Hello Onee-chan.
Yes, to put all eggs in one basket, it is not always a good idea...but sonetimes, we have to do it.
Sometime we don't have another choice.
Hi, bet.
Thanks for reading my post.
Hi, Olga.
I am sure you would find something interesting to write.
I can see it on your comment. It's alreday full of idioms.
Thanks for stopping by and reading my post. I appreciate your comment.
Dear Rose!
You made my day!
Hi Rose!
I need to read the meanings to understand all idioms. From your blog, I've learned some idioms. I like the idiom "Cool as a cucumber" as well.
Great to see you participating! It's nice advice that we shouldn't "put all of eggs in one basket". Thank you for writing. :)
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