We’d say the thing about the bull, and we’d also say, “Bite the bullet.”
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We say all of those but grasp the nettle has a little more of a seize the day edge to it.
grumpyoldman
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i almost made a fella fall off a ladder he was working on, he was up a good 12 feet when i told him, he better come down because it was about to start raining like a cow pizzing on a flat rock , he had never heard that before and dang near fell off the ladder laughing
JAS_OH1
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Yeah I don't know that one, but probably have never seen a nettle (I had to google that) in my life, so maybe that's why it isn't a common saying over here. I do believe they are around and apparently have some medicinal properties, but that was all new to me. We do have bulls with horns and there are undoubtedly plenty of bullets over here.
I can't imagine never having seen a nettle. There's not a person in this country who's childhood doesn't including getting stung by nettles, you probably won't have had to spend your afternoon searching for a dock leaf then
Timenspace
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Yep, correct, I've heard that one too.
I came to like " Easy does it" a lot lately...of course an antonym to the above.
Never knew it prior to some of this summer's English idiom lessons. Idioms captivate the language's spirit, in a way . I utterly enjoy discovering those.
JAS_OH1
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A what? No time to Google right now, LOL. I am getting dressed shortly and then going to finish prepping all the stuff I am taking over to my son-in-law's house to cook paella.I can't imagine never having seen a nettle. There's not a person in this country who's childhood doesn't including getting stung by nettles, you probably won't have had to spend your afternoon searching for a dock leaf then
Stinging nettles are probably the British equivalent to poison ivy. not the same plant, but similar pain!
A dock leaf is the considered antidote for a nettle sting.
So you pack your children off to enjoy the great outdoors, they come back with lumpy stinging nettle welts crying and you pack them back off outdoors to search for a dock leaf to rub on the sting.
I never found it worked, I'm sure it's just an old wives tale to distract a whiny child
You know your gonna step on a nettle for the first time in your life now, right?
JAS_OH1
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No! But I'm not going barefoot outside at my age.
They’re normally something you brush you hand or arm past without realising until the tingling pain starts. Blackberry picking is one of the usual ways of picking up a few stings.
Nettles are quite tasty as well as stingy.
We used "weegbree" and it did work. Or maybe I just believed it worked and therefor it workedA dock leaf is the considered antidote for a nettle sting.
So you pack your children off to enjoy the great outdoors, they come back with lumpy stinging nettle welts crying and you pack them back off outdoors to search for a dock leaf to rub on the sting.
I never found it worked, I'm sure it's just an old wives tale to distract a whiny child
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I’ve had an Australian beer made from nettles.