The Enchanted Tavern
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Facelikeapotato to shitposting@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago

Idiom continuity

lemmy.ml

message-square
32
fedilink
273

Idiom continuity

lemmy.ml

Facelikeapotato to shitposting@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago
message-square
32
fedilink
alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • SokathHisEyesOpen
    link
    fedilink
    English
    26•2 years ago

    The opposite of skeletons in your closet is no skeletons in your closet, not skeletons in the front yard. LOL

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      4•2 years ago

      Skeletons in your pantry: Your dark cooking experiments when you were drunk, high, or broke

    • mozingo
      link
      fedilink
      English
      26•2 years ago

      He said “Idiom continuity”. That doesn’t mean they all have to be opposites, he’s just extending the metaphors in whatever direction he fancies.

  • Iraglassceiling [she/her]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    9•2 years ago

    I haven’t enjoyed any of Nathan Pyles content since I found out he is pro forced birth/anti choice.

    Fuck that guy.

    • sag
      link
      fedilink
      2•2 years ago

      What it mean?

    • FacelikeapotatoOP
      link
      fedilink
      7•2 years ago

      Oh, that’s disappointing.

    • Pandantic [they/them]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      8•2 years ago

      Boo, let’s just steal it and cut his name out!

  • @rothaine@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    2•2 years ago

    Me trying to figure out how “towel” is the opposite of “phone”, smh

    • @Stretch2m@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      2•2 years ago

      Opposite of throw in the towel.

  • @walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz
    link
    fedilink
    12•2 years ago

    I can’t figure out the bag of cats one

    • ma11en
      link
      fedilink
      26•2 years ago

      If someone ‘lets the cat out of the bag’ they have shared secrets.

    • hallettj
      link
      fedilink
      English
      3•2 years ago

      If you’ve got a whole bag it means you haven’t let any out

  • @Gabu@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    24•2 years ago

    I just realized that going up in flames and going down in flames are both very bad.

    • jargoggles
      link
      fedilink
      15•2 years ago

      Clearly it’s a function of |y|.

    • @HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      8•2 years ago

      One way’s flammable

      The other’s inflammable

  • @fidodo@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    15•
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    “going sideways” is also bad. I guess the moral of that idiom is that directions are bad?

    I guess “going forwards intact” would be the good version.

    • Pandantic [they/them]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      1•
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      “going sideways” is also bad.

      “Going forward in flames” is what it should be. You’re in flames, but you’re not going up, down, or sideways (all bad), but just going forward knowing the flames will probably subside.

    • muddi [he/him]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      3•2 years ago

      It’s “go up in flames” right? So the opposite would be “not catch on fire?”

      • keepcarrot [she/her]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        2•2 years ago

        Extinguished forward, but stopped

      • SokathHisEyesOpen
        link
        fedilink
        English
        3•2 years ago

        Go down in water.

    • Nougat
      link
      fedilink
      13•2 years ago

      Remaining motionless at room temperature.

  • @elegantgoat1@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    0•
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    Consistency?

    Edit: Funny though!

    • @sbv@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      2•2 years ago

      I think it’s continuity, like a spectrum. At one end is thin ice, the other is thick ice. etc

      • @elegantgoat1@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        -1•2 years ago

        Yeah, I think that’s wrong. Since they are discrete and not a continuum. Since there are only two extremes.

        If his new relationships were true it would make the opposite idioms consistent with their non-opposite counterparts. Kind of the same concept as a contrapositive proposition, i.e. ‘if A then B’ implies ‘if not A then not B’.

    • @fidodo@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      7•2 years ago

      Continuity is consistency across a spectrum.

      • @elegantgoat1@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        0•2 years ago

        Yeah, I can buy that. My thought was that there is no spectrum here though. Just two points.

      • Nougat
        link
        fedilink
        1•2 years ago

        Continuity is the presence of a complete path for current flow.

  • @Kandorr@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    7•2 years ago

    The jig remains down.

  • @fidodo@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    1•2 years ago

    deleted by creator

  • Pandantic [they/them]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    8•2 years ago

    “Up shit creek with a paddle” - you’re in trouble, but you’ve got the means to get through it (tho it will stink)

shitposting@lemmy.ml

!shitposting@lemmy.ml
Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !shitposting@lemmy.ml

Rules •1. No Doxxing •2. No TikTok reposts •3. No Harassing •4. Post Gore at your own discretion, Depends if its funny or just gore to be an edgelord.

  • 1 user / day
  • 3 users / week
  • 17 users / month
  • 777 users / 6 months
  • 1 subscriber
  • 1K Posts
  • 4.49K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • not
  • UI: unknown version
  • BE: 0.18.2
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org