rothaine,

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

Stretch2m,

Opposite of throw in the towel.

Kandorr,

The jig remains down.

Pandantic,
@Pandantic@midwest.social avatar

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

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

Fuck that guy.

Facelikeapotato,
@Facelikeapotato@lemmy.ml avatar

Oh, that’s disappointing.

Pandantic,
@Pandantic@midwest.social avatar

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

sag,

What it mean?

Anticorp,

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

keepcarrot,

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

Mozingo,
@Mozingo@lemmy.world avatar

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.

walter_wiggles,

I can’t figure out the bag of cats one

ma11en,

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

hallettj,
@hallettj@beehaw.org avatar

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

Gabu,

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

jargoggles,

Clearly it's a function of |y|.

HonoraryMancunian,

One way’s flammable

The other’s inflammable

fidodo,

“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.

Nougat,

Remaining motionless at room temperature.

Pandantic,
@Pandantic@midwest.social avatar

“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.

muddi,

It’s “go up in flames” right? So the opposite would be “not catch on fire?”

Anticorp,

Go down in water.

keepcarrot,

Extinguished forward, but stopped

elegantgoat1, (edited )

Consistency?

Edit: Funny though!

fidodo,

Continuity is consistency across a spectrum.

elegantgoat1,

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

Nougat,

Continuity is the presence of a complete path for current flow.

sbv,

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

elegantgoat1,

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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