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Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves; Talk is cheap; Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear; Talk of Angels, and hear the flutter of their wings; Tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you who you are [25] Tell the truth and shame the Devil (Shakespeare, Henry IV) The age of miracles is past
Other Arab people, mainly Palestinian, use the expression لما ينور الملح lemma ynawwar il-malḥ, which roughly translates into "when salt blossoms" or "when salt flowers" Breton - Pa nijo ar moc'h ("when pigs fly") [19] Chinese – 太陽從西邊升起 ("when the sun rises in the West")
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
The covid-19 pandemic would be a wake-up call for America, advocates for the elderly predicted: incontrovertible proof that the nation wasn’t doing enough to care for vulnerable older adults.
i.e., "do not argue what is obviously/manifestly incorrect." advocatus diaboli: Devil's advocate: Someone who, in the face of a specific argument, voices an argument that he does not necessarily accept, for the sake of argument and discovering the truth by testing the opponent's argument. cf. arguendo. aegri somnia: a sick man's dreams
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"I-I-I", the letter, not "me", signed repeatedly with alternating hands on the chest is an idiom that is translated into the English word egotistical. [4] However, even examples like "Cow-it" and "I-I-I" remain controversial. There is ambiguity in defining and identifying idioms in American Sign Language as little is known of ASL's use of idioms.
The gods care about great matters, but they neglect small ones: Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2:167 magna est vis consuetudinis: great is the power of habit: Magna Europa est patria nostra: Greater Europe is Our Fatherland: Political motto of pan-Europeanists magno cum gaudio: with great joy: magnum opus: great work: Said of someone's masterpiece