{"id":10475,"date":"2014-09-26T17:04:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T17:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=10475"},"modified":"2014-09-26T17:04:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T17:04:16","slug":"cant-do-it-for-toffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=10475","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t do it for toffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting idiom in British English that means that you are bad at doing something &#8211; you <strong>can&#8217;t do it for toffee<\/strong>. Apparently a US equivalent is <strong>can&#8217;t do something for beans<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>The equivalent of this phrase in French is <em>il n&#8217;est pas fichu de faire qch<\/em> and in Welsh it&#8217;s <em>nid yw&#8217;n medru gwneud rhywbeth am ffortiwn<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Are the similar idioms in other varieties of English, and in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting idiom in British English that means that you are bad at doing something &#8211; you can&#8217;t do it for toffee. Apparently a US equivalent is can&#8217;t do something for beans. The equivalent of this phrase in French is il n&#8217;est pas fichu de faire qch and in Welsh it&#8217;s nid yw&#8217;n medru [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111,10,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-french","category-language","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}