"I don't give a hoot"



               This idiom is one of the oldest ,and it means that I don't care or I'm not carious about whatever , there are some people still using it ,especially the old .However ,  unfortunate , most of us nowadays are using another phrase which is completely rude . Of course it pops up in your mind immediately when is said rude .As a result , coursing became a habit because of us , we don't analyze the words before saying them , that's why it became a habit . 




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a + lost + cause = a lost cause ( what !!! )

I played with my sister, however it was a lost cause



Hi everyone ... !
I am interested in learning idioms with more details such as etymology. like in Arabic language we have such idioms that have stories or reasons behind them. I would like to discuss "a  lost cause"  idiom.
According to Speak English Like an American, this idiom means something hopeless. Moreover,  I find that meaning in another website with synonyms ! ( excited face )   

Also, according to the oxford English dictionary " lost cause" mentions as:

As we can see clearly that there are many usages for this idiom for many years. You can find a good meaning for many idioms ad one of them " a lost cause"

http://esl-bits.net/idioms/id22.htm

I search in Google to see how it work, and I find this: 

" Baby you're lost
Baby you're lost
Baby you're a lost cause

There's too many people you used to know
They see you coming they see you go
They know your secrets and you know theirs
This town is crazy; nobody cares "

Have a great day !

Raedah Alyousif

" Get Real "

Hello everyone,
I searched about " get real" slang, I hope you enjoy with the informations that I found.

Definition:

Get real!: Be realistic!

This idiom is used when someone
seems naive. "Get real!" shows
a negative opinion of another person's
ideas and means something like
"How could you believe that?"

 Or

get real: try to see what is really happening, get serious .

For example:

He wants five million dollars to play hockey? Tell him to get real.

This is Etymology according to the "Oxford English Dictionary" , 

  slang (orig. U.S.). to get real  : to be realistic or serious; to face facts; to abandon a naive, insincere, or erroneous opinion. Now freq. in imper., used to suggest that an idea or statement is foolish, overly idealistic, or quite wrong.

1969   Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 3 6   Get real, to tell the truth.

1980   Maledicta 3 ii. 222   The aggressiveness of the younger ass-bandit who wants to score in sex as a game is, in the older homosexual, taken as evidence he is a dizzy queen who doesn't know when to quit (how to live or when to die) and won't get real (face facts).

1987   K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 89   ‘Shit, Jo. I didn't know he meant anything to you.’ ‘Get real. He doesn't.’

1993   Caves & Caving Winter 40/1   For those who feel that politics have no place in caving or other sporting activities—get real!

1998   C. Aherne et al. Royle Family Scripts: Series 1 (1999) Episode 4. 112  Denise: I'll tell you who else is gay. Dave: Who? Denise: Antony. Antony: Get real.

2002   Village Voice (N.Y.) 36/2   Again at war in the Middle East, the U.S. could decide to get real about investing in alternative fuels.



Nouf Alowaysi 

Get Real

According to “OED”  Oxford English Dictionary, get real is a combination of an idiom and slang which most of uses as a slang. So,  to get real  : to be realistic or serious; to face facts; to abandon a naive, insincere, or erroneous opinion. Now freq. in imper., used to suggest that an idea or statement is foolish, overly idealistic, or quite wrong. Normally, the connotation of this idiom is most likely depend on the situation, however , generally it has a positive tone.

 

second, from my researching to find out the history of this idiom, I found that in 1969 was the first using by  Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) .So, it could say get real has approximately 45 years old. Get real was initiated by academic people as I have found in different sites and books.

For example, I'm going to Las Vegas. I know I'll win a lot of money!" . 
When someone tells you to get real, they want you to get a reality check and to stop behaving as though you're living in a fantasy world. Could apply to pretty much anyone or anything (as in a company or organisation) that mentally is not living in reality.

Another example, Employee: I demand $75,000 a year, a company car, 50,000 shares of the company's stock, every benifit imaginable and a months vacation every year to start.
 Interviewer: Get real, this is a burger flipping job, not an executive job.






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Lost Cause and The War??!!

Lost Cause and The War??!!

 

to stand a chance

 13. to stand a chance(good, fair) chance  : see stand n.¹

1796   J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 108   He..hardly stood a chance of becoming a beggar.

1885   Manch. Examiner 12 Nov. 5/1   The Ministry..stand a good chance of seeing themselves reduced to insignificance. 

 

 

According to OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY.

 

THERE IS A LITTLE STORY OF THIS IDIOM AS FOLLOWING:

The closest he's ever gotten to being in a videogame was as part of a 1992 EGM practical joke, but now it's come to light that one of gaming's oldest red herrings, Sheng Long, is a playable character in Street Fighter IV's arcade version.

Sheng Long started life as a mistranslation of the "shō ryū" (Rising Dragon) part of Ryu's Shōryūken.When translated into Chinese Pinyin, "shō ryū" becomes "Sheng Long," and it's from here that the misconception was had. In the original Japanese version of the game, Ryu would say to defeated opponents: "If you cannot break through the Rising Dragon Punch, you cannot win!" In the translated version, it became "You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance." The inevitable happened, as English-speaking players assumed Sheng Long was a person, and EGM swiftly took advantage.

EGM claimed that Sheng Long could be unlocked by taking zero hits during an entire game, and then letting the timer run out in the final battle against M. Bison without giving or receiving any damage. Aptly, the writer of this tip was W.A Stokens, or "Waste Tokens."

The legacy of Mr. Stokens, however, lives on, as Capcom has seen to it that Sheng Long is finally about to take his rightful place in Street Fighter history. He'll be armed with a "Forbidden Shōryūken," and will most likely be a total badass. We don't know how to unlock him. 

 

 

 

 

 For more, here are some sentence to start use the SWEATY IDIOM in many ways...

 

1. We might stand a chance of winning if we continue to play as well as we did today.

2. If you're thinking about suing someone, talk to a lawyer to see if you stand a chance.

3.  Shy students don't stand a chance in such a large class.

4.  Do you think I stand a chance of winning first place?

Finally, My classmates if we could set a law by our own for more attention on one academic purpose, do you mind chatting on WhatsApp or any other Apps in Cellphones as one GROUP?

 

Believe me our LAW will become " USE IT OR LOSE IT ", after any class we take. And we might stand a chance of learning English sufficiently and helpfully if we continue 

 to practice.

 

 

WITH MY BEST REGARD,

SOMAIAH