Idioms, Set Phrases And Expressions

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Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKK7wGAYP6k (14:12) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlin1W-qThs (12:49) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMyq1eMoYng (13:55) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV5XUKVMPYA (7:08) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kYr8wdJLdo (7:57) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14u32XoAde0 (33:43) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTM4ix5epJM (7:22) Questions: 1. Why do we use idioms? How did they become part of language? 2. Do you know the origins of these idioms: bite the bullet under the weather face the music 3. What English idioms correspond to: a)When roosters lay eggs (Arabic) When a month has no Saturdays (Kurdish) When the snow turns red (Turkish) b)It's Hebrew to me (French) As if counting walnuts to me (Kurdish) c)Making a mountain out of hay (Persian) Making a dome out of a grain (Arabic) 4. What might these literally translated Czech idioms mean? Who hesitates does not eat Hunger has big eyes Who digs a pit for another falls in it themselves We [speak] of the wolf and the wolf is at the door Out of need good water from a puddle Work rushed little value 5. What idioms in your language, or other languages you know, do you find especially interesting?