Were you like me and saw the headline as "42 idiot origins"? No, these are idioms, or figures of speech. He talks about how they don't "literally" mean what they say, but we know that "literally" doesn't mean what it says,either. John Green explains a boatload of familiar metaphors in the latest mental_floss video. -via mental_floss
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Thankyou kindly. Someday I'll get this "internet" thing straight.
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That's next week's video. It will be up Tuesday.
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They look alike. I've gotten the two confused before.
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It seems you're not too scatterbrained. I did not know John's brother Hank, who kinda looks like him, also presented MF videos.
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