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bee33
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23 Sep 2023, 10:29 pm

TheOutsider wrote:
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I know that when someone says it's raining cats and dogs they simply mean it's raining hard, but I still have the visual image of cats and dogs falling so I always have that "pause" moment for idioms. NTs are more likely to take an idiom at face value and not think about it.


Is this true? Because I always picture cats and doges falling from the sky, even though I know what it means. I naturally assumed that NTs do the same thing.

Does anyone remember the episode in Red Dwarf where it's raining fish, and they are actually fish? :D



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23 Sep 2023, 10:39 pm

bee33 wrote:
TheOutsider wrote:
SharonB wrote:
I know that when someone says it's raining cats and dogs they simply mean it's raining hard, but I still have the visual image of cats and dogs falling so I always have that "pause" moment for idioms. NTs are more likely to take an idiom at face value and not think about it.


Is this true? Because I always picture cats and doges falling from the sky, even though I know what it means. I naturally assumed that NTs do the same thing.

Does anyone remember the episode in Red Dwarf where it's raining fish, and they are actually fish? :D

It also happens in real life too.


https://youtu.be/sHz6Wlc2MAI



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24 Sep 2023, 5:56 am

naturalplastic wrote:
So..I hate to break it to you that...if the "gift horse" referenced were the one in the Iliad it would warn you to do the opposite. To ALWAYS "put a gift horse through a metal detector" because it might contain danger. Not to "never" do it.

And there IS the expression "never accept gifts from Greeks" that does reference the gift horse in the Iliad to mean exactly that.

Exactly! The idiom has always made me wary of gifts and wonder what the motivation is behind them. I always felt like I was being warned not to interrogate the meaning of a gift, to be outwardly thankful but inwardly suspicious, maybe why I've always been uncomfortable receiving gifts :lol:



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