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Updated: May 11, 2025
The verb uthna like the Persian bar-khastan is used idiomatically in the sense of "to go away," to "vanish." Literally, "your command is on my head and eyes," a phrase imitated from the Persian "ba sar o chashm." Again, rah dikhana is the causal form, signifying "to make one wait," of "keep one waiting."
I had no idea how to render this idiomatically, but I knew that a room 20 ft. square contained 400 square feet. Also I knew the Latin for one square foot. But you will not be surprised to hear that my form master, a man of culture and education, leapt upon me. "Quadringenti," he snapped, "is 400, not 20." "Quite so," I agreed. "The room had 400 square feet." "Read it again.
Admitted into our consciousness it starts its work of killing us. It wrinkles the face, it turns the hair grey, it enfeebles the limbs, it stupefies the brain. One of its most deadly weapons is fatigue, or the simulation of fatigue. The tired business man, who rules American life, is oftener than not a dead business man. If he looked ahead he would see what we idiomatically know as his "finish."
I do not know, said my informant, that the curse of the Lady Superior had anything to do with the drought, but many think it had; and those are the facts. The common people of this region are nothing but children; and ragged, dirty, and poor as they are, apparently as happy, to speak idiomatically, as the day is long.
When the changes in Perak were completed, Mr. Hugh Low, formerly administrator of the Government of Labuan, was appointed Resident, and Mr. W. E. Maxwell, who had had considerable experience in Malay affairs, Assistant Resident. Both these gentlemen speak the Malay tongue readily and idiomatically, and Mr. Maxwell is an accomplished Malay scholar.
Brought up among Malays, and speaking their language idiomatically, he not only likes them, but takes the trouble to understand them and enter into their ideas and feelings. He studies their literature, superstitions, and customs carefully, and has made some valuable notes upon them. I should think that few people understand the Malays better than he does. He dislikes the Chinese.
Medlin, he ran staggering up the slope to the gateway. "Mrs. Treacher!" he panted, dumping down his burden, "I er it so happens that I have no small change about me." "Me either," said Mrs. Treacher, idiomatically, and bent over the basket. "What's this?" "You will forgive my mentioning it, Mrs. Treacher; but these good fellows very likely expected a sixpence or so for their trouble.
He explained that he had not talked English, had not talked to an Englishman, 'for oh, hundreds of years. He said that he had, in the course of his long residence in Lucca, seen two or three people whom he had known in England, but that none of them had recognised him. He laughed with pleasure and surprise at finding that he could still speak his native tongue quite fluently and idiomatically.
I do not know, said my informant, that the curse of the Lady Superior had anything to do with the drought, but many think it had; and those are the facts. The common people of this region are nothing but children; and ragged, dirty, and poor as they are, apparently as happy, to speak idiomatically, as the day is long.
The more talkative of the gunmen from the East Side flashed one look at the two automatics lying on the floor beside the overturned table. They might as well have been in Brazil for all the good they were to him. "For the love o' Mike," he repeated again helplessly. "You're the the " " the hick that was to have been framed for house-breaking. Yes, I'm him," admitted Clay idiomatically.
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