Here are some of the idioms I learned from my colleagues and friends.<\/p>\n
You snooze you loose<\/p>\n
Clear as mud<\/p>\n Meaning an abundance, plenty. (thanks John) Asking how is your new place. <\/p>\n Meaning useless effort usually financially.<\/p>\n Do something too soon without thinking too carefully about it. For example, I jumped the gun when I sent out that email without thinking.<\/p>\n Meaning a kid resembles his\/her parents<\/p>\n Argue over trivial. In Chinese, they say “picking bones in an egg”.<\/p>\n It means the most difficult part of a process, or the thing that takes the most time. (Courtesy of Kristene)<\/p>\n When you really, really don’t want something, you say you wouldn’t poke it with a ten foot pole. In Chinese, you say one wouldn’t poke a hornet’s nest with a pole or tong ma feng wo. (Courtesy of Joe)<\/p>\n Related to casino environment. If you have no money, you can’t roll dice. (Courtesy of Joe)<\/p>\n In Chinese, we say nong qiao cheng zhu(????) meaning one made fool of oneself tring to be a smarty pant. (Courtesy of Joe)<\/p>\n Refer to something obvious. Dah! (Courtesy of Joe)<\/p>\n Dah! (Courtesy of Joe)<\/p>\n (Courtesy of Joe)<\/p>\n If you don’t want to tell someone where you got the information, you tell him\/her that a little bird told me. (Courtesy of Joe)<\/p>\n Full course dinner.<\/p>\n (Courtesy of Joe)<\/p>\n Close but not quite right (Courtesy of Joe)<\/p>\n (Courtesy of Joe)<\/p>\n (Courtesy of Joe)<\/p>\n (Courtesy of Joe)<\/p>\n (Courtesy of Joe)<\/p>\n (Courtesy of Joe)<\/p>\n (Courtesy of Bryan)<\/p>\n (Courtesy of Bryan)<\/p>\n (Courtesy of Bryan)<\/p>\n (Courtesy of Joe)<\/p>\n (Courtesy of Joe)<\/p>\n (Courtesy of Joe)<\/p>\n (Courtesy of Joe)<\/p>\n When someone is really drunk(Courtesy of Bryan)<\/p>\n (Courtesy of Kristene)<\/p>\n (Courtesy of Kristene)<\/p>\n (Courtesy of Kristene)<\/p>\n (Courtesy of John)<\/p>\n (Courtesy of Bryan)<\/p>\nmore … than you can shake a stick at<\/h3><\/span>\n
\nThere are more datetime formats in use in the computing world than you can shake a stick at.<\/p>\nPlaying hooky<\/h3><\/span>\n
\nUsed to mean skipping schools. But now it’s used to mean any kind of skipping.<\/p>\nHow’s your new digs?<\/h3><\/span>\n
Can’t draw blood from a stone\/turnip<\/h3><\/span>\n
Strike the iron while it’s hot<\/h3><\/span>\n
Jump the gun<\/h3><\/span>\n
A chip off the old block<\/h3><\/span>\n
Splitting hairs<\/h3><\/span>\n
the long pole in the tent<\/h3><\/span>\n
Wouldn’t poke it with a ten foot pole<\/h3><\/span>\n
No money no dice<\/h3><\/span>\n
Kiss (Keep it simple stupid)<\/h3><\/span>\n
Does a bear shit in the woods?<\/h3><\/span>\n
Is the pope catholic?<\/h3><\/span>\n
HHIC: hit honcho in charge<\/h3><\/span>\n
Proof is in the pudding<\/h3><\/span>\n
Secret in the source<\/h3><\/span>\n
A little bird told me<\/h3><\/span>\n
From soup to nuts<\/h3><\/span>\n
Going under bender<\/h3><\/span>\n
Right church wrong pew<\/h3><\/span>\n
Make up a tree and leave<\/h3><\/span>\n
Off like a dirty shirt<\/h3><\/span>\n
Way off the left field<\/h3><\/span>\n
Don’t rain on my parade<\/h3><\/span>\n
Take the bull by the horn<\/h3><\/span>\n
Mercy rule<\/h3><\/span>\n
Beats the shit out of me<\/h3><\/span>\n
Any dog has his day<\/h3><\/span>\n
Wrap around the axle<\/h3><\/span>\n
Wrap around the finger<\/h3><\/span>\n
He is not the sharpest knife in the drawer <\/h3><\/span>\n
Great googly moogly <\/h3><\/span>\n
Arranging deck chairs on a sinking ship <\/h3><\/span>\n
Fiddle while rome burns (Nero did that) <\/h3><\/span>\n
Three sheets to the wind <\/h3><\/span>\n
Nail jelly to the wall<\/h3><\/span>\n
Pushing noodle up the hill<\/h3><\/span>\n
Rearranging the death chair <\/h3><\/span>\n
Keep your eyes peeled <\/h3><\/span>\n
Keep your fingers in the pie<\/h3><\/span>\n
Keep a few irons in the fire <\/h3><\/span>\n
Out of thin air<\/h3><\/span>\n
Out of wazoo <\/h3><\/span>\n