Invent an Idiom

[maıráí]

Assuming:
Asperger's > Sperg > To Sperg


Thus, in Yo Tobi:
Kuwi (a map) > Kuhonowi (a mapmaker) > Kuhonoto (to mapmaker)

Because the land that Yo Tobi in spoken in is sky islands. They drift; not a lot, but enough to make mapmakers an angry stereotype.

Next idiom:
Dancing when you have to go to the bathroom.

[Zumir]

Dȧ oyjintis Galȧp.
The most urgent gallop.

Next: To be happy for someone.

[personak]

Assuming HAPPINESS IS MARCHING:

Ē háseti séron ī.
3PS.MSC.NOM.SNG have-RLS march-ACC.SNG 3PS.FMN.INS.SNG
"He's happy for her", lit. "He has a march for her"

Next: being afraid of reptiles

[Risla]

rémenih ma tlecuáqan yáumatl ná
Lizards bite him in his sleep.

Next: to walk with a limp.

[con quesa]

rémenih ma tlecuáqan yáumatl ná
Lizards bite him in his sleep.

Next: to walk with a limp.

You know, I'm going to be daring and different; instead of creating a particular idiom for this, I'm going to make it a fully independent root.

śkalo, "to limp, walk with a limp, be crippled". From the root śkal-, "walk with a limp" plus the standard verbal ending -o.

Next: to have a way with horses, landbirds, or other culturally-important riding animal

[Zumir]

Make an idiom out of it. This is the idiom thread, not the lexicon thread.

[maıráí]

In Tobi:

To walk with a limp.
si zemeti aye sho
To always walk on stairs.

To have a way with birds (like hunting falcons.)
chi fossi si hibidwahi no
To be the wind to the wings.

To have a way with horses.
shi shi lesganami kusho
To ride without a saddle
(Special form of "without". Verb is timeless.)

Kohibi, egyo.
Two birds, one stone.



Next idiom:
to hurry to do something bad/illegal/illicit, so as not to get caught
to hurry to do something bad/illegal/illicit, so as not to get caught, and fail

[Risla]

SE: ahuipíc tla sesálcach, "to slip on one's own sweat"

Next: to show up at entirely the wrong time for an event.

[Halian]

(scrapped)

[maıráí]

In Tobi:

To kiss ____'s ass.
___(hi) chi montsi no.
To be like reeds to ___.

To be an ass-kisser.
Chi monsi no.
To be the reeds.

(Both with an emphatic definite article.)

next:
To be surprised, or to jump at something, that was actually nothing special.

[Zumir]

Bēn fjaren jewn dȧ Ven-Taga.
Fearing the wind tiger.

Next: to be illiterate.

[Imralu]

Bēn fjaren jewn dȧ Ven-Taga.
Fearing the wind tiger.

Next: to be illiterate.

dze ima zat
"(be) no son of a writer"

Next: to be greedy for money

[Zumir]

Sȧ Evjivan bēn Bēnkȧ.
To be a banker to everyone.
Next: to obsess.

[Trailsend]

Next: to obsess.

Inhuruvúfofihote.
inh<u-r;u-v-á-f;o-fih<o>>te
flattened<LEAD-NONCOMPETITIVE;LEAD.S-STAT-TR-MEDICINE;INAN.S-TRACE<LOC.INAN>>
He/she flattens* the foliage around the sign**.

* This root is used for flattening or arranging collections of long, slender things; it can be used for flattening grass, combing hair, arranging reeds in preparation for mat-making, etc.

** This is a "sign" as in a trace or mark of something. The image the predicate renders is a person, having found a scent trace, circling it unendingly.


Next: To catch oneself just before saying something foolish.

[Zumir]

Voyrenȧ leren dȧ Mangven girȧvay.
Avoiding letting the mosquito escape.

Next: to annoy someone without realizing it.

[cybrxkhan]

Next: to annoy someone without realizing it.

Merthic:
ruadcloi tralál - literally, to push onself (i.e. force onself) into harassing [someone]


Next:
a good but ultimately unsuccessful try at something

[Zumir]

Caen lak Veof efȧ Ensȧlop.
Trying like a wolf after an antelope.

Next: being awesome.

[cybrxkhan]

Next: being awesome.

Merthic:
cganác tácgeolcha - literally, to drink the essence of highness (highness as in being tall, immense, not as in being drugged)


Next:
a love polygon (i.e., like a love triangle, except with lots of people)

[Zumir]

Gaz lak fjayen Ens.
People like flying ants.

Next: to be high.

[Soap]

lypel "to be silly" ... this is also one of the words for squirrel. Since it's one word it doesnt sound like much of an idiom but since it'd be used with a "temporary" verb construction it'd be different than just saying that someone is literally a squirrel. One could also say lypelbies mušoba "playing with squirrels".

next: someone obsessed with disasters, to an inappropriate extent (e.g. gets excited when a major plane crash happens), without being able to control his excitement

[garysk]

next: someone obsessed with disasters, to an inappropriate extent (e.g. gets excited when a major plane crash happens), without being able to control his excitement

Proto-Babbish: bu'a 'adri'ibdum'a brain'id gurruigngi'id
feaster on giblets

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bu'a         'a·dri-'ib·dum-'a  brain'id     gu·rruig·ngi-'id
DEF.ABS.NOM  one.who-feast      ART.GRP.OBL  giblets
the one who intensively eats unchoice meats cut up into little pieces for food

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Glossary
dum (v it) - eat
'ib·dum (v it) - feast (< 'ib- (intensifier) + dum (eat))
'a·dri-'ib·dum-'a (n ani) - feaster (< 'adri-..-'a (agentive) + 'ibdum (feast))
gu·rruig-ngi-'id (mass n ani) - giblets (< gurruig'id (guts) + -ngi (something cut up into little pieces for food))
gu·rruig-'id (mass n ani) - guts (< gurruig + -'id (collective, mass noun))
gu·rruig (n ani) - unchoice meat (gristle, fat, bone, tripe, various stringy things) (<? c.f. guruibrig (ball)?)

bu'a - Definite nominal article, absolutive case
brain'id - Article for group or mass nouns, oblique
'a·dri-..-'a - agentive circumfix
'ib- - intensifier prefix
-'ngi - things chopped up for food
-'id - mass nouns, collections of things

Next: engaging in useless or unproductive activities when the time is ideal for something important and productive (like "he's burnin' daylight")

[WanderlustKoko]

Next: engaging in useless or unproductive activities when the time is ideal for something important and productive (like "he's burnin' daylight")

Saharaina: -adihemisha kama hido jiki bila penshéri- to party like a crazy person without a care in the world [as to what the outcome might be]. /lit -verb "to party" (add pronoun prefix to beginning of verb)+like (context: as in)+person+crazy+without+thought(s)/
[-adihɛmiʃə kama hito dʒiki bilə pɛnʃeɪri]

Next: To know something by heart/to memorize something to the point in which you know it completely and don't have to reference something.

[Risla]

SE: setlácal (ma cót) cua méta: literally, to write (something) on one's own spirit.

Next: to be irrationally angry all day.

[Christopher Schröder]

Luiten ein Vuijr ondry einse euigen Chausseurn.
Lit. “to light a Fire under one’s own Shoes.”
Fig: "to be angry for no clear Reason, to be irrationally angry"

Next: To regain one's Balance after very nearly falling.

[WanderlustKoko]

To regain one's Balance after very nearly falling.

Kuma: Kanu ālā njesupovik meamū /lit to breathe again after almost missing an appointment with the "higher being" (ie God)/ - ["Superior being/Higher up person/God"+relieving sigh+disappearing [chances/opportunities/circumstances]+povik adverbal suffix for "about to", "almost", etc+ life force]

/kanu a:la: ɲɛsupɔvik meɑmu:/

Next: To get an idea and roll with it.