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hexdit

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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #45 on: July 05, 2018, 02:55:46 AM »
Getting Tuurized
(as in : getting involved into something by Tuuri's enthusiasm)

Escaping from a family dinner just to find out you left your fav books/games/whatever at home
A futile protest, made in hope.
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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #46 on: April 08, 2019, 12:19:47 PM »
A futile protest, made in hope.

How’s “pulling at the knot” work?

Next up: to feel the presence of many, many people in an empty room.
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(No symbols for Latin, Ancient Greek, or Inuktitut…)
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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #47 on: April 08, 2019, 06:27:51 PM »
How’s “pulling at the knot” work?

Next up: to feel the presence of many, many people in an empty room.

Ooo, poetic.
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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #48 on: April 08, 2019, 07:41:33 PM »
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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #49 on: April 10, 2019, 03:39:26 PM »

 to feel the presence of many, many people in an empty room.
To be like a mage in the silent world


The feeling when no one understands you
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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #50 on: April 10, 2019, 06:42:24 PM »
The feeling when no one understands you

Feeling Lalli-ish

Hovering around at a party, not knowing what to do.
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carpe diem

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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #51 on: April 15, 2019, 08:49:07 AM »
Hovering around at a party, not knowing what to do.

Assailed by unpromising possibilities.

Next: seeing the face of someone you care about bathed in the warm glow of a fire.
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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #52 on: November 02, 2019, 06:47:04 AM »

Next: seeing the face of someone you care about bathed in the warm glow of a fire.



Winter tingles

When someone you don't reckonize looks at you as if they knew you
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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #53 on: May 22, 2020, 09:46:10 AM »
I created a short saying for Yastreb, the main character of my Dragonhost novels - Do'kha. As he explains it:

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Do’kha is something you would hear often in Tunguska. It doesn’t translate easily. - So be it - is close, but it doesn’t convey the sense of acceptance of fate, good or bad, though rarely is it heard in times of joy.[/size]
"Life is all we are. Life is what defines us. In the end, Life is the answer."

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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #54 on: November 03, 2020, 11:28:01 AM »
When someone you don't reckonize looks at you as if they knew you[/size]

Ringing dead

Next: noticing someone else's house is unsafe (even though you know yours is)
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Re: Invent your own idioms!
« Reply #55 on: November 03, 2020, 04:36:54 PM »

Next: noticing someone else's house is unsafe (even though you know yours is)

Scouting too far from home

Next: when after a dull day of being so tired you almost fall asleep sitting down i’s finally evening enough so that you get to go to bed, and then you are not tired at all
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