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 #2 (permalink) Sun Sep 03, 2006 21:26 pm Some idioms |
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Hi Jes?s
I know the expression "If you watch a kettle, it never boils." a little differently:
"A watched pot never boils."
Look here, for example:
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/pot
You can find lots of various websites by doing a Google search for "English idioms" :D
For example, Google found this:
Let sleeping dogs lie: Look here under L
http://www.idiomconnection.com/animal.html#A3
Amy
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| #3 (permalink) Mon Sep 04, 2006 0:01 am Idiom: If you watch a kettle, it never boils |
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| Yankee wrote: |
I know the expression "If you watch a kettle, it never boils." a little differently:
"A watched pot never boils." |
I once had a boss from Sicily, and his version this English proverb was different. He said, "You put a pot on to boil, you watch it boil, it never boil." :D |
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| #4 (permalink) Mon Sep 04, 2006 0:17 am Idiom: If you watch a kettle, it never boils |
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Hello!. Thanks a lot for your replies, and for the websites, Amy!.
Well, I have been looking for another one, but
I can?t find it. I just found one pretty similar.
The Idiom is:
"Like a cat on hot bricks".
Does it mean the same as
"Like a cat on a hot tin roof"?
If you know it, please, tell it to me right now.
Otherwise I will be like a cat on a hot tin roof
because I have got an exam about idioms
in two hours!. :D
Thanks a lot! |
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| #5 (permalink) Mon Sep 04, 2006 0:28 am Idiom: If you watch a kettle, it never boils |
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Hi Jesus
Yes, that sounds about right.
Here's a link to this forum ;)
Like a cat on hot bricks...
http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic950.html
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| #6 (permalink) Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:41 am Idiom: If you watch a kettle, it never boils |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: |
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One of Russian colloquial versions of the saying is almost the same - but about the milk.
To be more precise – not is, but rather was, as now milk is sold pasteurized and no one boils it at home to sterilize. :)
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