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Tuesday Idioms

 

Tuesday Idioms
Teatime Idioms

Seeing as it’s Tuesday, it’s a good time to start PdP’s weekly idiom section with a few… Tuesday idioms:

  • A week from next Tuesday = used to indicate something that will happen at some unspecified time in the future, or that seems to last forever: you’ve not fixed the defect in two months. When are you going to do it? Maybe a week from next Tuesday? / I know you’re busy, but I cant’ wait for that report until a week from next Tuesday
  • Cheap-arse Tuesday = in Australia, a day of the week when establishments such as cinemas, restaurants, etc, offer goods and services at lower prices.
  • Giving Tuesday = refers to the Tuesday after U.S. Thanksgiving in the United States and is actually a movement to create an international day of charitable giving at the beginning of the Christmas and holiday season (after Black Friday and Cyber Monday).
  • Tuesday’s child is full of grace = People born on a Tuesday will supposedly be gracious, refined, and polite in manner or behavior. From a nursery rhyme called “Monday’s Child” meant to help children remember the days of the week: Monday’s child is fair of face, Tuesday’s child is full of grace. Wednesday’s child is full of woe, Thursday’s child has far to go. Friday’s child is loving and giving, Saturday’s child works hard for a living. And the child that is born on the Sabbath day, Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay. [From the Free Dictionary].
  • From here till next Tuesday (also: From here to Sunday) = for a great distance or for a long time, or all over the place: he greeted her with a smile from here till next Tuesday. You can lecture him from here till next Tuesday, but he won’t listen!

Aren’t they lovely?

And yes, I wish to thank TFD (The Free Dictionary) for its existence!

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