{"id":13332,"date":"2016-12-29T13:19:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T12:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=13332"},"modified":"2016-12-29T13:19:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T12:19:14","slug":"hovercrafts-and-eels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=13332","title":{"rendered":"Hovercrafts and eels"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I like to play with idioms and sayings, and sometimes come up with new ones. The saying ‘my hovercraft is full of eels’ is very useful to know in a variety of languages<\/a>, and here are some idioms based on this phrase that I was inspired to come up with this week, plus a few others I made up:<\/p>\n

Alternatives for ‘a sandwich short of a picinc<\/a>‘, meaning that someone is lacking in intelligence:<\/p>\n

– a few eels short of a hovercraft
\n– he has eels in his hovercraft
\n– a few penguins short of a hatstand
\n– a few fish short of a lawn mower<\/p>\n

Alternatives to ‘as easy as falling off a log<\/a>‘, meaning that something is easy to do:<\/p>\n

– as easy as filling a hovercraft with eels
\n– like eels to a hovercraft
\n– like ducks to custard<\/p>\n

Alternatives to ‘it’s raining cats and dogs<\/a>‘, meaning that it’s raining heavily:<\/p>\n

– it’s raining hovercrafts and eels
\n– it’s raining buckets and sticks (a reference to the stick and bucket dance – Discworld fans might get this)<\/p>\n

Antonyms of ‘as clear as crystal<\/a>‘, meaning that it is not obvious and\/or easy to understand:<\/p>\n

– as clear as custard
\n– as clear as mud<\/p>\n

Do you ever come up with new idioms and sayings?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like to play with idioms and sayings, and sometimes come up with new ones. The saying ‘my hovercraft is full of eels’ is very useful to know in a variety of languages, and here are some idioms based on this phrase that I was inspired to come up with this week, plus a few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13332","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=13332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}