Idioms, Set Phrases And Expressions

## Details

This event will be hosted by Ceit Hustedde (Longtime Member of Buddytree)

## Details
Here are a few important points.

• The discussion questions are viewable online, so we will save paper by not printing them out.

Here are the video and discussion questions for this event:

• https://buddytree.daily.co/2eg5O4Q5Nu7moQmLdYji

Videos:
1.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKK7wGAYP6k (14:12) 2.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlin1W-qThs (12:49) 3.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMyq1eMoYng (13:55) 4.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV5XUKVMPYA (7:08) 5.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kYr8wdJLdo (7:57) 6.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14u32XoAde0 (33:43) 7.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTM4ix5epJM (7:22)

Questions:

1. Why do we use idioms? How did they become part of language?

2. Do you know the origins of these idioms: bite the bullet under the weather face the music

3. What English idioms correspond to: a)When roosters lay eggs (Arabic) When a month has no Saturdays (Kurdish) When the snow turns red (Turkish) b)It's Hebrew to me (French) As if counting walnuts to me (Kurdish) c)Making a mountain out of hay (Persian) Making a dome out of a grain (Arabic)

4. What might these literally translated Czech idioms mean?

Who hesitates does not eat
Hunger has big eyes
Who digs a pit for another falls in it themselves
We [speak] of the wolf and the wolf is at the door
Out of need good water from a puddle
Work rushed little value

5. What idioms in your language, or other languages you know, do you find especially interesting?