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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

The opposite of skeletons in your closet is no skeletons in your closet, not skeletons in the front yard. LOL

[-] Mozingo@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

He said "Idiom continuity". That doesn't mean they all have to be opposites, he's just extending the metaphors in whatever direction he fancies.

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Skeletons in your pantry: Your dark cooking experiments when you were drunk, high, or broke

[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

I just realized that going up in flames and going down in flames are both very bad.

[-] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

One way's flammable

The other's inflammable

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"going sideways" is also bad. I guess the moral of that idiom is that directions are bad?

I guess "going forwards intact" would be the good version.

[-] muddi@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

It's "go up in flames" right? So the opposite would be "not catch on fire?"

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Go down in water.

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Extinguished forward, but stopped

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"going sideways" is also bad.

“Going forward in flames” is what it should be. You’re in flames, but you’re not going up, down, or sideways (all bad), but just going forward knowing the flames will probably subside.

[-] walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 12 points 1 year ago

I can't figure out the bag of cats one

[-] ma11en@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

If someone 'lets the cat out of the bag' they have shared secrets.

[-] hallettj@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

If you've got a whole bag it means you haven't let any out

[-] Iraglassceiling@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

I haven’t enjoyed any of Nathan Pyles content since I found out he is pro forced birth/anti choice.

Fuck that guy.

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

Boo, let’s just steal it and cut his name out!

[-] Facelikeapotato@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Oh, that's disappointing.

[-] sag@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

What it mean?

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

“Up shit creek with a paddle” - you’re in trouble, but you’ve got the means to get through it (tho it will stink)

[-] Kandorr@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

The jig remains down.

[-] rothaine@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Me trying to figure out how "towel" is the opposite of "phone", smh

[-] Stretch2m@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Opposite of throw in the towel.

[-] elegantgoat1@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Consistency?

Edit: Funny though!

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Continuity is consistency across a spectrum.

[-] elegantgoat1@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I can buy that. My thought was that there is no spectrum here though. Just two points.

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I think it's continuity, like a spectrum. At one end is thin ice, the other is thick ice. etc

[-] elegantgoat1@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I think that's wrong. Since they are discrete and not a continuum. Since there are only two extremes.

If his new relationships were true it would make the opposite idioms consistent with their non-opposite counterparts. Kind of the same concept as a contrapositive proposition, i.e. 'if A then B' implies 'if not A then not B'.

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