If I think about language, a few unpleasant things cross my mind, such as spelling for example. I simply don’t like to learn for a spelling test. I can also think of much better things to do than looking up the meaning of a word in a dictionary. But what about language is really beautiful? Poems, stories??? Yes, but I guess we need to look no further than idioms. Idioms are indeed the flowers of language, and believe me the English language has a massive garden full of beautiful flowers. I think that nothing in language can be as beautiful as idioms. A language without idioms is like pap without salt or even worse, pap without sauce. May I humbly remind you that the word pap is as part of the English language as the word cool is part of Afrikaans.
But what makes idioms so beautiful? I think most idioms always have something of what we may call a tongue in the cheek. By the way, tongue in the cheek is an idiom. According to the Wikipedia encyclopaedia most synonyms should not be interpreted directly. The words have a meaning that we cannot observe or see directly. For example, if I expect to win the lotto, one can say it is ……just another a cold day in hell, which means an event that will never happen. The idiom at a loss for words really reflects the real beauty of idioms. I guess that if I ever have the privilege to see Brad Pitt in real life, I will be speechless…or…. at a loss of words. At this juncture, let us take the beauty a little further, and where do we see more beauty than in the game of love? I want to share with you a few beautiful love idioms.
The first step of love of course, is falling in love and that requires to catch someone’s eye or to fancy someone or even better, to have a crush on someone, hoping of course that he falls head over heels for you. Step two might end up going out with him, to go steady or to be lovey-dovey. If things go according to plan, you trust that he will have eyes only for you because you really want to be the apple of his eye. Can there be more beautiful idioms in any language than these? Can any ideal be more divine than to be the love of someone’s life? Of course it must be Mr. Right. Then follows step 3, you to tie the knot, by getting married. But, be prepared to go through a bit of a rough patch here and there, or to have blazing rows from time to time. To have a stormy relationship does not mean you should call it a day or to end on the rocks. You see, to appreciate real beauty, it is sometimes necessary just to look at the other side of beauty and to realise that every dark cloud has indeed a silver lining.
On the website Love idioms, I also learnt a few lessons, not all so beautiful, but oh so true:
Marry in haste, repent at leisure, meaning if you marry too quickly, you have the rest of your life to regret it!
Love is blind: when you love someone, you can’t see his faults
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: beauty is subjective, but love remains so beautiful.
And finally: Never allow love at first sight to take your breath away.
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