{"id":1210,"date":"2007-10-14T23:40:24","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T21:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/14\/meaning-and-origin-of-phrases-sayings-and-idioms\/"},"modified":"2007-10-14T23:41:31","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T21:41:31","slug":"meaning-and-origin-of-phrases-sayings-and-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/14\/meaning-and-origin-of-phrases-sayings-and-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaning and origin of phrases, sayings and idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is often quite difficult to know where a language idiom is coming from (it is less etymology than social history). For English, I foudn the ideal web site: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phrases.org.uk\/\">phrases.org.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In their own words:<\/p>\n<p><i>The meanings and origins of over 1,200 English sayings, phrases and idioms.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you want to resolve a friendly argument over how a saying or phrase originated or whether you just enjoy words, you&#8217;ll probably find something here to interest you.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Now, if you are more interested in the French language, you can get the corresponding information from the reference web site: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expressio.fr\/\">expressio.fr<\/a>. There, the phrase of today is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.expressio.fr\/edj\/expression.js.php\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is often quite difficult to know where a language idiom is coming from (it is less etymology than social history). For English, I foudn the ideal web site: phrases.org.uk. In their own words: The meanings and origins of over 1,200 English sayings, phrases and idioms. Whether you want to resolve a friendly argument over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,18,35,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-culture","category-sciences","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}