{"id":11889,"date":"2015-11-24T20:13:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T20:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=11889"},"modified":"2015-11-24T20:13:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T20:13:41","slug":"french-and-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=11889","title":{"rendered":"French and potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an interesting phrase in Scottish Gaelic today: <strong>Ith do bhunt\u00e0ta beag mus dig na Frangaich!<\/strong>, which means &#8220;eat your small potatoes before the French come!&#8221; and it is apparently said to children picking at their food to encourage them to eat up [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.faclair.com\/\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Are there similar phrases in other languages, perhaps used in different contexts?<\/p>\n<p>What did your parents say to you to get you to finish your food? <\/p>\n<p>Or if you have kids, what do you say to them, if they need encouragment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an interesting phrase in Scottish Gaelic today: Ith do bhunt\u00e0ta beag mus dig na Frangaich!, which means &#8220;eat your small potatoes before the French come!&#8221; and it is apparently said to children picking at their food to encourage them to eat up [source]. Are there similar phrases in other languages, perhaps used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,125,10,56,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-idioms","category-language","category-scottish-gaelic","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889","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=11889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}