Well, you're early for tomorrow!

I've heard some variations on that before.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure -- I've occasionally heard English speakers say this (or something similar) much to the confusion of the Japanese folks around. I guess one could swap ounce/pound to gram/kilo, but I think it could use replacing.

Checking in from the States.... The fuck is a "gram/kilo"? Nah, I'm kidding. It's cocaine, right?

"Keep the carriage in the wake of the mare."

Also donut shops overcharge. Donuts used to be super fucking cheap. That's why they'd be next to the coffee pot at every function, and in the work break room. Now they want like $2 a donut. It's dough that's been boiled in grease. And they get to reuse the grease for many boilings. C'mon.

Never getting your phone on the charger?

24/7 bandwidth draw?

And isn't that somehow attached to a specific Shakespeare play, but then became universal?

Edit: maybe not. See comments below.

On your tab.

"it's a twofer!"

Too soon.

Or not, really.

Similar to when you "drop the dime" on someone, i.e. using a dime to call the cops on a payphone. Although in my lifetime, I don't think I've heard anyone but Bradley Nowell use that phrase.

Time is a flat, fried, circle drenched in chocolate frosting and filled with cream!

In my perception it's the opposite. When I was in Houston, people walking the streets in the hot Texas summer were the lowest of the low. There's no infrastructure for pedestrians, distances are huge and the air is hot and humid. Still there were people walking, and they are treated like the scum of the earth.

kinda

If wishes were cars, the walkers would drive

Oof ouch my bone satchel

There's a superstition among actors about speaking the word "Macbeth" outside of the play, but I don't think telling people to "break a leg" is specifically linked with it. Two separate actor superstitions.

We're the ones who survived, we're allowed to joke about it

One thing is certain... Actors are weird.

I think that many historic trades have been automated to the extent their old terminology is obscure but lives on in idioms.

"To the bitter end" (bitter end meaning the lose end of a rope, from rope-working - not entirely extinct but obscure).
Perhaps that one could be "To the edge node"!

"Strike while the iron is hot" (from blacksmithing, again not entirely an extinct craft but largely replaced by automation).
Maybe "Cross while the light is green?"

In Dutch we have the similar "een gewaarschuwd man is er twee waard" - loosely translates to "a warned man is worth two"

Oh, I didn't say not to joke about it. I just really miss Herman Cain, OK?

/s you animals.

The crypto bro trolling the AI bro.
It would be a nice modern substitute lol, IF I understand what the meaning is, eng is not my native language, but as I understood it's: Someone bad calling out someone other bad

Avoid things like the crypto xD or the AI slop to make it super modern

The gram kg probably already exists, I think?

Don't buy crypto before it's settled lol

Wait for it …

in Hungarian it's "the owl calling the sparrow 'big-headed'" 😄

we usually shorten it to just "owl calling the sparrow" (doesn't have the same ambiguous meaning as English)

using solar at night

"yer using solar at night, ain't ya boi"

Wow, great examples! I never realised that first one had a historical meaning. I suppose even without the context it still makes sense because of the adjective 'bitter'.

I wonder if any common sayings nowadays will catch on and become long lived idioms in the future?

this actually finally makes the phrase mean what it means without a bunch of explanation

It's a touch stilted but it gets the idea across! May I ask your first language? Any old idioms there that no longer make literal sense in the modern world?

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If wishes were horses, birthday cakes and stargazing would be a lot more dangerous.

Isn't the joke the if you break a leg you get in the "cast"?

To be honest, I was never prepared to know what "hoisted by one's own pitard" meant, and knowing today, I still have no clue how this was ever relevant to any time period.

A pitard is a timed bomb used to to blow down a door or wall. The idiom is about blowing yourself up mistakenly instead. Were people using these routinely at some point?

‘Steam saler, LootBox whaler’

this is a good one 🤣

So is "hoisted" in this case the equivalent of "yeeted"?

Drinks like coffee and tea can become bitter when you get down to the dregs. That's what the first saying makes me think of.

pation

Make a wish in one hand and a crap in the other, and see which piles up faster.

All the horse ones because we don't use horses anymore. There a ton of them.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Who tf gets a gift horse?

Saddle up. Who tf has a saddle?

Hold your horses. Who tf has horses to hold?

Get off your high horse. Who tf has a high horse?

Beat a dead horse. WTF.

Yep. A gram is one cocaine. A kilo is a group of cocaines.

before the invention of doorknobs, doors were indeed single use. they would be blown open with every use. this is why we invented chamber pots. midnight bathroom breaks were very loud, before people had pots.

Also wishing wells would be fucked up

Wearing metas?

whats the point of a modern replacement? idioms connect us across time and when they really have not modern sense (which there is enough understanding of cookware I don't think we hit that with pot and kettle) then it becomes an interesting backstory.

I think the collective is known as "a sniffling".

edit: autocorrect > me.

Maybe, but I've never heard anyone say it (other than me when this comes up which is maybe once every year or two). That said, it may well exist in other, more sensible countries.

Britta will explain: https://youtu.be/KuuafUtVte0