Showing posts with label idiom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label idiom. Show all posts

Friday, June 24, 2016

Across the pond.

It's not cute anymore. Please stop it. But you cannot stop it so I must bear with it for the rest of my life. A phrase so internalized that the ocean between England and the United States cannot be called the Atlantic Ocean anymore. It must be the pond instead.

Fine. You say pond and I'll think water.  I'll translate each and every instance for now on, and that vague I'll be more clear than you.

No matter how many times you say it, no matter how fast or numerous the jets, it's still an ocean and not a pond, notwithstanding American's affection for British fondness for understatement. It's not cute anymore.

This is the pond of Henry the transmentalist's who lived in a hut and read Tarot cards.

The center blue on the globe below is the Atlantic ocean between the United States and Britain.


Tiny, you could swim across it or drain it. ↑.

Quite large, you would die in it ↓.