Took me too long to realize that a “China Shop” isn’t a place to shop chinese things.
The idea of an entire store to sell china is so outdated to be pretty hilarious. Pretty sure the only place I’ve even seen China is at my Grandmother’s house on Thanksgiving.
That’s just any store
Most China shops are this too really.
Forgive my ignorance, but what is that? A goat? What’s the homonym?
candy store 'n up ass ride dick or something, one of those ligma jokes
Bull in a China shop - Idiom that describes a clumsy person. The second one is a a kid in a candy store where kid means baby goat as well as a child (human)
In German, it’s an elephant instead of a bull is someone is curious
We’ve learned enough about Germans in the last few days on Lemmy.
I don’t wish to learn any more about Germany
In Dutch it’s also an elephant in case you do want to learn more about Dutch :)
Same in Danish - but in a glass store
Whatever works, I guess, actually in Dutch it is in a ‘china-cabinet’ (?) as in a closet/cupboard for fragile plates but i guess that word is so old it’s not really something anyone actually anyone has like nobody has silverware for special occasions anymore.
Huh, and I thought it was just us saying it with an elephant.
“us” as in?
Oh, sorry : ). Hungary.
It seems it is elephant in most languages. I was not even aware English idiom has a bull instead.
“Like a kid in a candy store”, kid = baby goat instead of human child.
I thought it was store (shop) and store (storage) but yours makes more sense
I should start saying “like a goat in a candy store”
kid = baby goat
I was today years old (non-native).
Ah yes, of course
homonyms are words that sound the same but have different meanings. Their/there/they’re are classic examples.
That’s a homophone, a homonym is a word that is spelled and pronounced the same but has different meanings, like “tap” as in “faucet” and “tap” as in the action of tapping a surface.
Technically, it is a homonym. Homonyms are separated into two categories, homophones (sound the same but spelled differently, such as they’re/their/there) and homographs, which spelled the same but having different meanings, such as lead (the metal) and lead (the verb).
Handy chart
Led is not spelled the same as lead.
Lead however is spelled the same as lead, so their point remains.
yes, but lead is
Led is the past tense of the verb “to lead”.
Led is a homophone of lead (the metal) whereas lead is a homograph of lead (again, the metal).
“Kid” in candy store.
Whatcha bein’ so meta for?
Bull needs roller skates.
Goat needs gloves.
Compulsory viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzw2iBmRsjs
