Most have been true at some point. They all (most) have a reference to something that once made perfect sense.
For example: Calling the kettle black. Most kettles were black at one era in time. Now they can be different colors.
But here are some [more] modern ones:
‘A 90s one: all that and a bag of chips’
Since many people would get a free bag of chips with their meal.
‘The internet is dead’ said when we get the nostalgic shock of an era no longer the golden age of internet. And it is true, many things that were great about old internet are now gone or modernized into a streamlined mess of paywalls and adblock-blockers.
They are called idioms in a sense because some of us can’t help but feel uneducated when we cannot figure out what they mean or why that phrase would come to mean what it does. But it sure does make the past a bit more interesting.
‘They are called idioms in a sense because some of us can’t help but feel uneducated when we cannot figure out what they mean or why that phrase would come to mean what it does.’
What? That is not why they are called idioms.
You also misused or misunderstood two of the idioms you used, and also listed the internet one, which isn’t an idiom.
Isn’t the saying “Pot calling the kettle black”? I’m also not sure about the “all that and a bag of chips” – it doesn’t refer to getting free things, it means something similar to “the bee’s knees”.
Most have been true at some point. They all (most) have a reference to something that once made perfect sense.
For example: Calling the kettle black. Most kettles were black at one era in time. Now they can be different colors.
But here are some [more] modern ones:
‘A 90s one: all that and a bag of chips’ Since many people would get a free bag of chips with their meal.
‘The internet is dead’ said when we get the nostalgic shock of an era no longer the golden age of internet. And it is true, many things that were great about old internet are now gone or modernized into a streamlined mess of paywalls and adblock-blockers.
They are called idioms in a sense because some of us can’t help but feel uneducated when we cannot figure out what they mean or why that phrase would come to mean what it does. But it sure does make the past a bit more interesting.
‘They are called idioms in a sense because some of us can’t help but feel uneducated when we cannot figure out what they mean or why that phrase would come to mean what it does.’
What? That is not why they are called idioms.
You also misused or misunderstood two of the idioms you used, and also listed the internet one, which isn’t an idiom.
Isn’t the saying “Pot calling the kettle black”? I’m also not sure about the “all that and a bag of chips” – it doesn’t refer to getting free things, it means something similar to “the bee’s knees”.