English idioms explained in illustrated comic strips
Panel 1:
Girl 1: BOOOOOHOOOO
Girl 2: Hey, what’s the matter?
Panel 2
Girl: I just got dumped! I feel I want to get into a room and throw away the key! Aaaanggg
Girl 1: Now, now pull yourself together …
Panel 3
Girl 1; Pull? Like this…ack ack ack … (choking) – pulling her collars
Girl 2: (facepalm) ooh…brother…
Panel 3
Girl 2: It means you should control your emotions, you dummy
Girl 1: but that hurts
Girl 2: serves you right…
Based on ideas by Jho
Panel 1
Girl 1: Phew! Finally the meeting is finished
Girl 2 : That was a long commitee meeting, you look very tired
so how did it go?
Panel 2
Girl 1: The meeting went fine. but Wenny, the chair person,
likes to beat around the bushes, making the meeting longer
Girl 2: yeah, i can imagine that
Panel 3:
Girl 2 imagining people in bushes while Girl 1 looks as Girl 1 imagination
Girl 2: must be tiring to go around the
bushes for a meeting. Isn’t wenny also the head
of the student gardening team?
Panel 4:
Girl 1: Haha, it means that wenny doesn’t like to talk to the point the makes
meetings go longer (patting girl 2)
(the imagination pops)
Girl 2: I see, sorry, somebody replied to my wall message
In the UK it’s beat about the bush
It is also used to say when somebody is avoiding talking what is important
Panel1:
Boy 1: Yo! Aidan wait up!
Panel 2:
Boy 1 : So, what’s your plan for the weekend.
Aidan: I’ve got a weekend job, remember? at Haris’ Pizza.
Boy 1: oh, yeah, i totally forgot about it
you told me. So how did you find the job?
Panel 3:
Aidan: usual thing, i browsed the
vacancy board
… and i used the map to
find the place
…
Boy 2: speechless
Panel 5:
It means What you think
or feel of your new job!
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Ok, it’s actually a phrase 😀 – there are actually more than 20 different meanings of the word “find” either as a noun or a verb
"Green Thumb"
A person with natural gardening skills or has a natural talent for gardening
in UK its often called “having green fingers” or “being green fingered”
Well, The Hulk has green fingers anyway 😀
Usually it goes
I have a sinking feeling that our team is going to loose in this weather.
This idiom is very informal
Choose your favourites (3 comics!)
If you haven’t read them you can look over here:
stand/stick out like a sore thumb
if someone or something sticks out like a sore thumb, everyone notices them because they are very different from the other people or things around them.
I Get It! 