Episode 29 - So Many English Idioms Mention Paint!

I'm currently doing some decorating in my house and I'm having to watch the paint dry! This got me thinking about all the different idioms we use related to paint.  Vocabulary To paint the town red - to have a fun night out, probably involving alcohol and maybe making some trouble! To whitewash something - Whitewash is a kind of watered down paint that was used by poor people to colour the inside of their house. Now we use this to mean covering something up or cleaning something up, often in politics or in the entertainment industry. To paint yourself into a corner - To talk yourself into a difficult situation. Often when you're having an argument or trying to explain something you can realise halfway through that you've got it wrong, you've upset someone or you've made a mistake. Now you have to figure out how to fix it...and still look cool! Good luck! Paint a picture for me - Tell me, in detail, what happened. You paint such a gloomy picture! - When someone is always being negative or pessimistic. A picture paints a thousand words. - Proverb - It means it's easier to understand someone, to relate to their experience or to understand what they mean if they can see a picture. (This is a link to the story about the picture I mentioned in the Podcast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc) To tar everyone with the same brush (or to paint) - to generalise and expect everyone to think or behave in the same way. To watch paint dry - something really boring Additional Vocabulary I've bitten off more than I can chew - idiom - I've taken on too much, the project is too big. Havoc - similar to chaos, creating trouble Grime - Mostly used to describe dirt but it gives the idea of dirt that has been there for a long time and is hard to remove. You dug a hole for yourself - Idiom - Similar to 'paint yourself into a corner'. Often used in part or full to comment when we've noticed someone has said the wrong thing or is trying to recover from a mistake. 'Go on, keep digging' we might use to say, 'I know you're stuck now, show me how you're going to fix the situation'. Gloomy - dark and depressing Tremendously - and extreme adjective used to mean 'to a great extent' Anti-War Sentiment - The feeling or movement against war, often by a large number of people, can include newspaper articles and protests. To relate to something - when we can empathise or sympathise with someone or some experience. Terrible twos - A common phrase used to describe how difficult toddlers can be between the age of 2 and 3. Super duper - means 'really really' or 'extremely' Simile - a figure of speech that usually compares two things that are not the same but can help us understand some idea. 'This movie is like watching paint dry'Definition