The English only. An idiom for today.

[mybach]

This is an english forum!!!

Let's improve our language skills.
It's importand, for me, hope that also for you...

And if you know sth. interesting put it here and make me out of blu.
Oterwise I'll be blu...

Brgds.
Mybach.




out of blu - zakoczyc, zadziwic,
to be blu - byc smutnym;

[Gość: Helper]

First of all: there is no need to start idiomforum because there are scores of
links to such sits out there. Just write in search "English idioms", and see
for yourself.
Your usage of "out of the blue" is not correct. It means
approximately "wyskoczyć jak filip z konopi", powiedzieć coś, pojawić się nie
wiadomo skąd i dlaczego. The more appropriate expression in your case is "to
bring you out of the dark", to znaczy oświecić, uświadomić, pouczyć.
Some links:
www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/6720
geoenglish.com/Index.asp
www.eslcafe.com/idioms
dictionary.cambridge.org
home.t-online.de/home/toni.goeller/idioms
humanities.byu.edu/elc/student/idioms/idiomsmain.html

[soup_nazi]

Gość portalu: Helper napisał(a):

> approximately "wyskoczyć jak filip z konopi"

I can't agree with this. The "Filip" saying implies foolishness which is not
necessarily the case with "out of the blue".

[Gość: agreed]

I agree with soup_nazi regarding Filip. You are right.
And my idiom for today:
moon is made of green cheese
Polish equivalent: nie wciskaj mi glupot

[isanda]

I agree with soup_nazi regarding Filip. You are right.
And my idiom for today:
moon is made of green cheese
Polish equivalent: nie wciskaj mi glupot

[Gość: Helper]

Warto wiedzieć skąd wywodzi sie powiedzonko. Filip to nie imię męskie lecz
określenie oznaczające zająca (żargon myśliwski?), który nagle wyskakuje z pola
konopi, nieoczekiwanie, out of the blue.

[ladytwo]

That's right. 'out of a blu" is more like a suprise, something that is
unexpected.

[Gość: Fazi]

[isanda]

Mam nadzieje, ze mi wybaczysz mala poprawke: mowi sie out of THE blue, a nie
out of blue. I oznacza to owszem: nagle, niespodziewanie, grom z jasnego
nieba, ale nie - zadziwic. Przyklad: I was standing at the bar and out of the
blue this young lady came i and kissed me.
My idiom for you today: blue moon (my friend calls me once in the blue moon)
- bardzo rzadko, bardzo wyjatkowo

[Gość: dobry pomysl]

widze, ze ci helper odradza tworzenie takiego forum, bo jest juz pelno takich
linkow, mozesz sobie kliknac i juz ci wyskakuja wszystkie idiomy. Nie przejmuj
sie tym i rob swoje. Na tych wszystkich linkach to nie sa twoje idiomy i twoja
zabawa. Mozesz sie tam wiele nauczyc, ale przeciez to bardzo dobry pomysl
przerzucac sie takimi powiedzonkami na forum, uczyc sie razem, a nawet
poprawiac sobie bledy i szukac wspolnie najlepszych polskich odpowiednikow
tych zgrabnych angielskich powiedzonek. I odwrotnie. Co to komu szkodzi.
Powodzenia.

[Gość: Helper]

Whatever.

[Gość: Helper]

As I read these posts, it becomes obvious to me that you have three choices:
- you may learn the right meaning;
- you may get some nonsensical meaning;
- or you, most likely, get totaly confused.
This is the reason why I suggest to rely on dictionaries rather than on all
sorts of "experts" in this forum.
Learn right from the start so you don't have to correct what you have learned
later or make fool of yourself using an idiom incorrectly.

[Gość: Kanuk]

That's "Once in a blue moon". Not rare, not exceptional.

[Gość: Isanda]

Yes, it means rare and exceptional

[Gość: Kanuk]

Sorry. Yes,yes, of course it means that something happens (or someone does
something) very rarely. I understood that you wanted to say that the idiom
itself is rarely used or met.

[mybach]

Hello everybody,
thanks for your help, for sure I want to develop myself and from time to time I
will add sth. interesting, and it would be greatfull if you did the same.

And for people who are not optimistic about this forum I will say:
Don't be yellow...

to be yellow - tchórzyć

Best regards.
Mybach.

[mybach]

his confidence was uppurent - jego pewność siebie byla widoczna

and
bull market - hossa

and the disease
to have a cancer, or cut the appendix
mieć raka, lub wyciąć wyrostek


My goal is to put any kind of interesting phrease form the different aspect of
life, of course you are welcome.
Brgds.
Mybach.

[mybach]

Is it interesting for you?
Of course I'm asking about the the way of learning, your oppinion would be an
advantage.
Brgds.
Mybach.

[mybach]

is there sth. very easy for you, so you are doing this "like taking candy from
a baby"
so it means very easy and in fact cruell!

other expression for sth. very easy is: to do sth. with my eyes closed - tj.
bez mrugniecia, az tak latwo...

Regards
Mybach

[kierowca.autobusu]

mybach napisał:

> is there sth. very easy for you, so you are doing this "like taking candy
from
> a baby"
> so it means very easy and in fact cruell!
>
> other expression for sth. very easy is: to do sth. with my eyes closed - tj.
> bez mrugniecia, az tak latwo...
>
> Regards
> Mybach

Don't forget about more common expressions such as: "It's a piece of cake"
or "It's a child's play". They come in handy :)
KA

[mybach]

Thanks Mr. Driver,
all expresssion coresponding to an idiom topic are just welcome.
Brgds.
Mybach.

[Gość: aka]

easy as pie

[mybach]

so mayby will "come out smelling of roses" from this topic - beda jeszcze tego
tematu dobre rzeczy, a o ludziach, ze wyjda jeszcze na ludzi.

interesujace jest pochodzenie jezykowe tego sformulowania, it means that to
have a good roses you have to put some shit, to give better perspectives for
flowers to grow in the field, funy isn't it...

Mybach.

[mybach]

to stand a snowball's chance in a hell - this mean that it's just impossible

Brgds.
Mybach.

[Gość: Idiomidiot]

"nie widziała dupa słońca,
ogorzała od miesiąca"
- how would you translate that into English?

[mybach]

sorry in winter there is no sun enught, so I wont translate.
ciao.
Mybach.

[mybach]

to go like a clockwork - means it is going as it was planned...

so it is looking up - and if you see sb. who is looking up, that means that is
looking very positive...

Brgds.
Mybach.

[Gość: Tamtejszy]

Hit the books
Zabieraj się do książek

[mybach]

An idiom in conjunction with a bear:

to bear a mark of sth - wskazuje na cos

This bomb attack bear a mark of the attack of terrorist organization.

Brgds.
Mybach

When the hell freezes over

[soup_nazi]

Ekwiwalent polskiego

"Kiedy wrobel schudnie i bedzie wazyl kilogram", hehehe

[Gość: T.H.]

home.t-online-de/home/toni.goeller/idiom_wm/index.htm

[Gość: T.H.]

Correction
home.t-online.de/home/toni.goeller/idiom_wm/index.htm

[mybach]

thx for this snapshot of english idiom web site.
Brgds.
Mybach

[Gość: T.H.]

Now we need a dictionary of abbriviations.

[Gość: T.H.]

By the way: your welcome, mybach.

[Gość: T.H.]

P.s. Miało być "you're welcome".

[Gość: Tamtejszy]

Not now,
I'm feeing blue.

A Christmas riddle

[Gość: Skippy]

Q: Why is Santa so sad?
A: He only comes once a year (and that's down a chimney)

Merry Christmas from Sydney (42C in our backyard right now)

[Gość: Tamtejszy]

He comes though a chimney to cool himself...