idioms/phrases

Wallflower

| Masuma

A wallflower is a person who is introverted and is separate from the crowd, usually at a party. Not particularly shy but are reserved when surrounded by a lot of people and big personalities. Not really knowing what to say so can come across as socially awkward. This person will blend in and become almost invisible to others. They choose to stand back rather than getting involved as they prefer to observe. They have no desire to be the centre of attention.

Generally they are quite happy in themselves and accept being different. Wallflowers can be creative and wise.

A wall may be ordinary and unnoticeable but a flower is associated with beauty and can be rare, you won’t truly learn until you get close.

p.s: and she never asks for what she truly desires..and so she always offers abundance with a very large heart unconditionally. Won’t you ask her out, ever?

Over the moon

| Masuma

𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗼𝗻 is to be delighted with something or with the situation one finds oneself in. When people are extremely happy, or sportsmen achieve a victory, they frequently jump for joy, just as the cow did in the famous 18th century nursery rhyme when it jumped over the moon. If a cow can do it, the implication is that humans can also. Such joy knows no bounds and the moon after all is the Earth’s nearest neighbour in space.❤️🌕

P.S: some discoveries of match are so joyful that you jump and dance 🩰 , moon is always so beautiful and it was indeed gorgeous last night …

Curtain twitcher

| Masuma

ℂ𝕦𝕣𝕥𝕒𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕣
is someone who likes to watch unobserved what other people are doing

P.S: curtains are lovely and people are caring.

To spruce up

| Masuma

𝐓𝐨 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐞 𝐮𝐩 is to smarten oneself up, in one’s dress, appearance, and behaviour.

The phrase comes from Prussia with its reputation for military smartness. The spruce tree is both elegant and neat, and actually takes its name from an early spelling of Prussia.

The most familiar spruce tree species is the Norwegian spruce, used in Europe as a Christmas 🎄 tree.

P.S: spruce up darling, spruce up. So many breaths yet to enjoy. “Never give up, never will I” – o little birdie sings to you, so try!

Bee knees

| Masuma

𝙱𝚎𝚎𝚜 𝚔𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚜 is used to refer someone who you consider very highly of.

It does sound like business too right ?

p.s: it’s 11/11, dedicated to mom 💐

Butter fingers

| Masuma

𝐵𝓊𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝒻𝒾𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓇𝓈 – someone who lets something slip between their fingers as if they were made of butter.

p.s: to let things slip is not easy, so best endeavour is that nothing gets slipped, actually supported firmer✨

A baker’s dozen

| Masuma

A baker’s dozen means thirteen. In the Middle Ages, baker’s suffered severe penalties if they sold loaves of bread which were below the legal weight. To avoid prosecution for any unintentional sale below this standard the bakers added an extra loaf free to every twelve, so ‘a baker’s dozen’ is really thirteen.

Glad rags

| Masuma

G̾l̾a̾d̾ ̾r̾a̾g̾s̾

That’s when a woman dresses to her finest! O happy day, O happy day!

p.s: 🧝‍♀️ time to put your glad rags on✨

To Peter out

| Masuma

𝗧𝗼 𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝘁 when something peters out it has stopped, or come to an end.

The phrase arose in the American goldfields during the first half of the 19th century, when the two principal methods of mining gold were used.

‘Placer’ mining, which had been known since ancient times, was the easiest because nature had already done most of the work, eroding and leaching gold-bearing rocks into a fine powder, or into nuggets which could be separated from the alluvial deposits in prospector’s pans.

The another method was known as ‘lode’ mining, in which the gold had to be extracted from solid rock.

Peter is Greek for rock, and can also refer to a vein of ore. When a seam had been worked to exhaustion and revealed no more gold, it was said to have ‘petered out’.

Peter also obtains it’s name from the saltpetre of the explosive in the gunpowder used to extract and break up the gold-bearing rocks into a workable size.

P.S: authenticity is gold, lies only vibrate purity into dark doors.