Hey everyone, we are fully back after a brief hiatus associated with finals and holidays. Today we had an executive writers' meeting, which went very well. One of my new years resolutions is to be more actively involved in FSF, meaning to actually get some of our ideas from idea stage to written stage to film stage, so expect more...if you see me slaking, please comment here, on twitter or on facebook.
One things we would like to start (in addition to the "It's Wednesday" lists) is The English Idiom game. It was inspired by something Demetri Martin mentioned on his comedy sketch: "If I". Mr. Martin played a game with his friends when he was in law school that he needed to use a particular word in an answer to a question whenever a teacher asked...words like "sassy" for example.
I received a wonderful book this holiday season: NTC's Super-Mini English Idioms Dictionary (An Up-to-Date Guide to the Idioms of British English.
We will pick an idiomatic expression every day, and you, my fellow Freudian Slip Film-ers, will be challenged to use the expression at some point in the course of the day. We will try to update these daily. In addition, I will try to give them to you the day before (ie, today you will be seeing tomorrow's expression). If you are able to use the expression, let us know, and you will get a point. When you reach a number of points (TBD) you will get a prize.
Today's idiomatic expression was: play cat and mouse (with someone) to capture and release someone over and over; to treat a person in one's control in such a way that the person does not know what is going to happen next.
example: David has been playing cat and mouse with Laura, and she's getting so sick of it that she just might break up with him.
Tomorrow (January 5th) the idiomatic expression is a choice of three expressions of similar meaning: (as) happy as a sandboy/ (as) happy as Larry; (as) happy as the day is long meaning very happy; carefree
Example: Mary's as happy as a sandboy now that she is married. Peter is as happy as Larry in his new job. Mrs. Robinson has many friends and is as happy as the day is long.
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: Caroline appeared to be as happy as Larry, which is odd considering Larry is also her ex-husband's name, and he was a manic depressive.
ReplyDeleteNatalia is actually breaking her duck this year with her resolutions, it isn't the usual lick and a promise ;)
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