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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Clearly it's a function of |y|.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

One way's flammable

The other's inflammable

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

"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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Remaining motionless at room temperature.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Go down in water.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Extinguished forward, but stopped

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't figure out the bag of cats one

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

Fuck that guy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Oh, that's disappointing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What it mean?

[–] [email protected] 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)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The jig remains down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Opposite of throw in the towel.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Consistency?

Edit: Funny though!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Continuity is consistency across a spectrum.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -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'.