See The Elephant (rebroadcast) - 29 August 2011

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🗓️ 29 August 2011

⏱️ 52 minutes

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If you’ve “seen the elephant,” it means you’ve been in combat. But why an elephant? Martha and Grant also discuss some odd idioms in Spanish, including one that translates as “your bowtie is whistling.” And what names do you call your grandparents? Hear hundreds of free episodes and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org. Be a part of the show: call or text 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the United States and Canada; elsewhere in the world, call or text +1 619 800 4443. Send voice notes or messages via WhatsApp 16198004443. Email words@waywordradio.org. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.0	You're listening to a way with words.'m Martha Barnett. And I'm Grant Barrett. I've been browsing
0:56.3	a great discussion thread at Reddit. You know, Reddit it's the social networking, social linking site for people.
1:03.0	Yeah, R-E-D-I-T, right?
1:05.0	People post stuff that's cool, they vote it up or down,
1:07.0	and then the popular stuff kind of rises to the top.
1:09.0	Well, one of the links that rose to the top
1:12.0	is a link that features idioms from other
1:14.9	languages and translates them into English and this is an astonishing list of
1:20.7	idioms because the cultural things that you need to understand in order to
1:24.6	grab these idioms are vast.
1:28.4	The top one at this minute, and I say at this minute because the voting could mean that this
1:32.1	one could drop off the top is from a
1:34.5	fellow in Bangladesh who writes about an idiom relating to mustaches and jackfruit.
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