Insert something about not being able to fight on an empty stomach here or other similar idioms Tl;dr How would you fight for a Free Palestine under one or the other, and how would that sentiment and capability change depending. Especially when one threatens to deport Pro-Palestine rally organizers

Teaching the Bible as literature (which I know this is not) can be valuable simply bc of the oversized impact the Old & New Testaments have had on Western society/thought. So many idioms based on Bible stories that it might be beneficial to those who didn't grow up with them. But NOT indoctrination.

i learned the true meaning of many idioms through age and experience. "wild stabs in the dark" "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" "was it good for you too". although the last 2 don't qualify as idioms

I’m interested in both wrongly used idioms, as well as anachronistic ones (dial someone, roll up the windows etc.), and your list of where these two things intersect is great!

What if someone didn't trust their English skills to find the right words in a sensitive situation, so they wrote something in their native language, ran it through Google translate, then asked chatgpt to clean up the language and butchered idioms to make an appropriate condolence message?

There’s lots of examples of idioms that get mangled, but I’m particularly interested in those that get lost because of technology/societal changes

Sorry, but it's just not. I've edited stuff written by academics and other professionals with errors like this. Folks typically learn idioms by hearing them, rather than reading. You'd be surprised (maybe not) how often I've seen "free rain," "tow the line," etc

Horses feature a lot in Chinese idioms too. the word for "right away" is 馬上 [mǎ shàng] which means "on horse" or "by horse". (notice how 馬 kind of looks like a horse galloping)

I love the archaeology of discovering the history hiding in plain sight in old idioms! Eg, “when it rains, it pours” being a slogan the Morton made up for non-caking salt.

Anyway none of this means that people who misspell words/idioms are stupid, or even ignorant. They just live in the modern world, and those words are no longer relevant to their lives. Why should they know them? But it’s interesting to be able to watch language shift over time