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Like a dog in a canoe: a novice's guide to foreign idioms.(THE LAST PAGE)
SOME YEARS BACK I WAS invited to speak at a black-tie event for the French-American Chamber of Commerce at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Because the audience would be primarily French nationals, I was advised to avoid using American idioms in my address. This is a fine kettle of fish, I thought as I sat down to purge my vocabulary of American idioms. What I was left with at the end of the day was "Good evening," "Thank you" and a rented tuxedo.
I'd have sold the farm back then for a peek into Jag Bhalla's 2009 book, I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears, and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World. Had I done so, I could have substituted French idioms for the English …
