"Idioms, Idioms and more Idioms" for the Short Affair Challenge

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Challenge: The Short Affair

-Prompt Word 2 – Nap

-Prompt Colour – White

Author: mrua7

Title:’ Idioms Idioms and more Idioms’

Word count: 1000 approx.

Summary: Napoleon and Illya are trapped by a flock of THRUSH goons.

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Comments

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

Ha! Brilliant! Although, I strongly suspect Illya of misunderstand deliberately, just to annoy Napoleon.


(I follow a page on Facebook called 'Have Fun With Russian' and they occasionally have a Russian Idiom post. They are just as baffling as English ones. Last week they had 'Без за́дних ног [bez zad-nikh nog]. which literally translates as 'without back legs'. It turns out that it means 'to be dead tired' or 'sleep like a log')

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! Oh yes, Illya definitely does it on purpose just to mess with Napoleon. In my early partnership stories, Illya tended to repeat things, parroting them back to Solo, especially idioms as he really didn't understand them...American idioms that is. Once he got the hang of them, he kept up the ruse just for fun.

I have to agree, Russian idioms can be head scratchers, but all idioms are to a point when their out of context from their country of origin/native speakers... I think I said that right?

Glad you liked the story. Thanks for the info on the FB page, but I avoid anything like that after all the Russian hacking and trolling that's been going on. Never know when your personal info can get stolen.

It's getting to the point where I avoid a lot of sites now, decreasing my on line footprint.


Thanks for the comment cuz, as well as the compliment!

[maria-priest.livejournal.com]

Loved this. Only IK & NS could carry on such a delightful dialogue under fire.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I picture them so calm and cool that they can do this sort of thing.

Hectic day today, actually this week is hectic, so I'll be catching up on my reading soon.