{"id":434,"date":"2007-07-05T18:28:59","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T17:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/05\/idiom-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2007-07-05T18:28:59","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T17:28:59","slug":"idiom-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"Idiom of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In English when you give up on something or admit that you&#8217;re defeated, you might say that you&#8217;re throwing in the towel or the sponge, a phrase that comes from boxing. In Welsh you put the fiddle on the roof: <em>rhoi&#8217;r ffidil ar y t\u00f4<\/em>. I like the image this conjures up.<\/p>\n<p>Other Welsh idioms I like include <em>siarad fel melin bupur<\/em> = to talk like a pepper mill, i.e. to talk non-stop, <em>mae hi&#8217;n bwrw cyllyll a ffyrc<\/em> = it&#8217;s raining knives and forks, i.e. it&#8217;s raining heavily, and <em>mae&#8217;r olwyn wedi troi<\/em> = the wheel has turned, i.e. times have changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In English when you give up on something or admit that you&#8217;re defeated, you might say that you&#8217;re throwing in the towel or the sponge, a phrase that comes from boxing. In Welsh you put the fiddle on the roof: rhoi&#8217;r ffidil ar y t\u00f4. I like the image this conjures up. Other Welsh idioms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,10,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","category-language","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","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=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}