Today, we wanted to meet you around a light subject (far from us the idea that the other articles are of overwhelming gravity…), namely a non-exhaustive list of expressions that we find with socks.
So grab a tea, a coffee, a juice, whatever, and enjoy reading!
- Eating one's socks (Quebec) refers to a feeling of panic when faced with a situation that one cannot control; it causes great apprehension.
- Drinking sock juice (France) means drinking bad coffee.
- To have low morale (France) means to be grumpy, to have the blues, to be in a bad mood.
- To make a sock (Belgium) means to take a nice little nap.
- To get your socks rolled (Mauritius) means to be scammed, swindled.
- To discard someone like an old sock (France) means to consider someone as a discarded object.
- It's time to pull our socks up (England) means that it is time to roll up one's sleeves for some task. Literal translation: "it's time to pull our socks up".
- There's a foot in the sock (France) means to be efficient, to be satisfied.
- Rolling a sock (France) means rolling a cigarette the wrong way.
- To turn someone around like a sock (France) means to change someone's mind without any effort of persuasion.
Now let's move on to the most famous quotes and proverbs . A line from a famous movie, a quote from a celebrity, we scoured the entire Internet to find something to get our teeth into for this article.
- "I knew I was a star the day I saw some weird people picking up my old socks." George Clooney
- "Scandals are like holes in socks. We don't worry about them as long as we are the only ones who know about them." Bernard Haller (1933 - 2009)
- "Rummaging in an attic is always a great idea, even if you find dirty socks." Jacques Dutronc
- "- They're asking me to make three-fingered gloves for the little lepers in Jakarta. That's all the Red Cross does! Don't you think I'd have made mittens faster? - Between us Thérèse, a good pair of socks and hop! Ohhh! People sometimes say such stupid things..." Santa Claus is a bastard
- “Christmas: the only time of year you can sit in front of a dead tree eating sock candy.” Unknown
- "Only the shoe knows if the sock has holes." Creole proverb
And you, do you know other expressions about socks?