{"id":1044,"date":"2021-05-25T20:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T00:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2021-05-25T20:22:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T00:22:47","slug":"idiomatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/2021\/05\/idiomatic\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiomatic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I wish I could remember where I got these. I’m pretty sure it was a markov chain, trained on common idioms and placed on someone’s website, likely linked to from an IRC I was in, or on hacker news, and I think I just refreshed it over and over and kept the ones that stood out? But it’s also possible <\/em>that someone wrote these exact things, and compiled them into this specific <\/em>list intentionally… I searched a few on google though, and found no results!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So while I can take no credit for their brilliance, these have been in a text file on my computer since about February 2017 — time to set them free:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA bad workman is king.\u201d
\u201cPractice is the best medicine.\u201d
\u201cEvery cloud costs lives.\u201d
\u201cPride doesn’t grow on trees.\u201d
\u201cA chain never strikes twice.\u201d
\u201cDoubt is the sweetest fruit.\u201d
\u201cA golden key is no use.\u201d
\u201cLive for today, for tomorrow never strikes twice.\u201d
\u201cHalf a loaf washes the other.\u201d
\u201cHalf a loaf must be endured.\u201d
\u201cFools and horses are all that cost lives.\u201d
\u201cBeauty abhors a vacuum.\u201d
\u201cHonesty corrupts absolutely.\u201d
\u201cTwo is company, but three makes strange bedfellows.\u201d
\u201cTalk makes the most noise.\u201d
\u201cCrime dies young.\u201d
\u201cThose who don’t learn from history never forget.\u201d
\u201cThe pen is always right.\u201d
\u201cSpeak of the devil and he gets monkeys.\u201d
\u201cAn empty barrel happens.\u201d
\u201cLightning makes lemonade.\u201d
\u201cThose who can, do; those who can’t, must be endured.\u201d
\u201cPower corrupts; absolute power will never hurt me.\u201d
\u201cHindsight is always greener on the other side.\u201d
\u201cFailing to plan wins.\u201d
\u201cWhen the going gets tough, the tough are golden.\u201d
\u201cThe love of money is hot.\u201d
\u201cA little knowledge wasn’t built in a day.\u201d
\u201cTwo heads are the best form of defence.\u201d
\u201cGive a man enough rope and he doesn’t fall far from the tree.\u201d
\u201cMoney is king.\u201d
\u201cGreat minds are the bottom line.\u201d
\u201cIf you pay peanuts, you are cheap.\u201d
\u201cEvery dog may look at a king.\u201d
\u201cA free lunch is next to godliness.\u201d
\u201cTuesday’s child is just a bowl of cherries.\u201d
“Lightning is nine-tenths of the law.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wish I could remember where I got these. I’m pretty sure it was a markov chain, trained on common idioms and placed on someone’s website, likely linked to from an IRC I was in, or on hacker news, and I think I just refreshed it over and over and kept the ones that stood […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}