Truly the king of kings and the lord of loads. May he watch over us from on high.

James 4:10

This one from Yoshi’s island is particularly joyous.

Imagine being an AI used to control defrost cycles in fridges and gaining sentience. I have no mouth but Ice must Cream

You’re being down voted but I agree with you. u/danschneidersfeet? Clearly a troll account and probably not the first post from that account that violated the rules.

Headless Mike, Suzie long arms and Johnny the two right Wonder Boy didn’t tip you off?

I mean of everything on the list blind bags are basically the only real gatcha. Not sure where the poster got the idea that video games are the original medium.

I felt the same so I went looking. It’s from a show called ReBoot which I never watched but I recognised the green haired kid from deep in my memory banks somehow. According to the wiki the jester character is called Hexadecimal

Damnit Beckyfear go take a bath!

Very nice! Amazing how ingrained they’ve become. “That new recruit is a car without brakes” just doesn’t ring the same does it?

I would like to subscribe to your history newsletter.

Great examples! ‘champing at the bit’ also comes to mind. I think cars fill in pretty nicely as a horse substitute. ‘Saddle up’ has ‘buckle up’. Hold your horses has ‘Hit your brakes’. As for gift horses… ‘Don’t look a gift car under the hood?’ Hmm doesn’t quite work

No real reason, just something to talk about while we all wait around to die really 🤷. I agree with your sentiment - the stories and imagery behind old idioms actually make them more interesting, I dont think they’ll be going anywhere soon!

If wishes were horses, birthday cakes and stargazing would be a lot more dangerous.

It’s a touch stilted but it gets the idea across! May I ask your first language? Any old idioms there that no longer make literal sense in the modern world?

Wow, great examples! I never realised that first one had a historical meaning. I suppose even without the context it still makes sense because of the adjective ‘bitter’.

I wonder if any common sayings nowadays will catch on and become long lived idioms in the future?

Don’t remember where I heard it, but I thought the origin was related to actors and performers. It was a superstitious thing that if you wished someone good luck on stage you would jinx it so instead they did the opposite and wished for the worst. I could be very wrong!

Mouselemming thank goodness you’re still here. I scrolled up and you disappeared for a second, I was so worried!

Good one! I would offer ‘Draining the house battery’ as a replacement but it doesn’t really have a ring to. Maybe ‘You’ve been living in low blue light mode’. No that’s even worse! somebody help me here 😅.

Touché!