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Cool Your Soup - 9 April 2018

A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

According to Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, it’s important to master the basics of writing, but there comes a time when you have to strike out on your own and teach yourself. Also: Spanish idioms involving food, a conversation about the difference between compassion and sympathy, recursive acronyms, bear-caught, leaverites, jonesing, mon oeil, Jane Austen’s pins, high-water pants, and save your breath to cool your soup. Read full show notes, hear hundreds of free episodes, send your thoughts and questions, and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org/. Email words@waywordradio.org. Twitter @wayword. Our listener phone line 1 (877) 929-9673 is toll-free in the United States and Canada. Elsewhere in the world, call +1 (619) 800-4443; charges may apply. From anywhere, text/SMS +1 (619) 567-9673. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.

0:33.4

I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. As I have for the last couple of years, I taught a workshop

0:39.5

at the San Miguel Writers Conference and Literary Festival in San Miguel de Iyende, Mexico, and I was

0:46.3

reminded of a couple of food-related idioms in Spanish that I think you'll appreciate. In English, if you're really scared about something,

0:56.0

you might describe yourself as shaking like a leaf, right?

0:59.0

But in Spanish, the phrase is,

1:02.0

Templar, como, a flan.

1:04.2

To shake like a flan, like the dessert?

1:06.5

Yeah, to tremble like a flan.

1:08.2

Which you can just picture it right

1:10.1

when somebody sets down the plate on your table

1:12.3

and it's just. it's because it's

1:13.6

kind of like a firm jello firmer than jello right it's not quite as wiggly yeah I

1:19.2

love that image and I also love darlélauelta ala tortilla, which literally means to flip the tortilla.

1:27.1

And you would use that in the context of say you're watching your favorite soccer team and

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