If you’ve ever made use of the simile “About as useful as knickers on a kipper” then, knowingly or not, you could have been indulging in a spot of ironic subversion. Dr Tony Veale BSc MSC PhD, who is a the Principal Investigator of the Creative Language System Group at University College Dublin School of […]
Tag: idioms
Colorful language, in a chart
Alan Kennedy’s Color/Language Project lists color idioms in many languages (thanks to Anka Pero for bringing it to our attention). Click on the non-especially-colorful image here to get to the fully-color-filled chart.