A World of Wisdom: Fun and Unusual Phrases from Around the Globe
WORLD OF WISDOM A Fun and Unusual Phrases from Around the Globe DR JAMES CHAPMAN Andrews McMeel PUBLISHING
The world is your oyster English The world is your canvas Spain Colombia The world is at your feet Germany The world is at your service Russia The world is your hotel Pakistan The world is a pot man a spoon in it Armenia The world stands open before you Poland The world is the world for the world Japan WHAT IS THE WORLD TO YOU hey take care of yourself
Introduction is an When thinking about different cultures and places we usually focus on the food the people and the landscape Language important part of any culture too Expressions like proverbs and idioms passed down through generations can tell us so much about life in a specific place Proverbs are little nuggets of wisdom that impart a moral or message and idioms are figurative turns of phrase that have a meaning beyond their literal one For example in English-speaking countries we might say it’s raining cats and dogs and it means that it’s raining very hard not that house pets are falling from the sky But when there’s a heavy rainstorm in Slovakia they say it rains tractors and in Colombia it rains husbands
