The NOTES: Looking for Inspiration
Written by: LM1991
Disclaimer: Anything at all that seems familiar is not owned by me. Seriously. No. It's not mine. The plots are, though!
A repeat of the Summary: I decided to write this so I can practice my writing skills – so, randomness, describing things and keeping my characters in-character. Any characters not recognized are mine. It's mostly for my own use, I'm just posting it so you can point out mistakes or laugh at my ridiculousness. Or the other way around… (Point out my ridiculousness and laugh at my mistakes…?)
Let's go with both of them.
Enough with the summary – start chapter two!
NOTE 2: IDIOMS
Idiom 1: A bitter pill to swallow.
"Eh… I've gotta take this?" the child asked hesitantly, looking at the large pill he held in the palm of his hand. The adult in front of him nodded solemnly as if the child, known by the name Paul, would be taking his one-way ticket (the pill) to the next life.
Paul shuddered at the idea. But hey, it was an adult, so he knew best, right?
He swallowed it and promptly choked at the bitter taste.
"BLEH! Blargh! Ewwww! Oh, gross!" Paul shouted, rubbing his tongue furiously over his sleeve to get rid of the taste, looking a little like a cat washing itself. "Gaaaaaaaaaaaah! I'ff goff shirff stuff om my tomgue!"
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Idiom 2: As fit as a fiddle.
"That's a good thing… if the one with the fiddle is a decent fiddler."
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Idiom 3: As right as rain.
"The rain's falling on the left side of the house, mommy! This rain's not right at all! …Oh, wait, that's water that's falling off the roof, not rain…"
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Idiom 4: As nutty as a fruitcake.
"But… but… it's a fruit cake! That's not nutty at all!"
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Idiom 5: Be off one's trolley.
"Get off the trolley, dear!" the lunch lady shrieked at a young girl who had climbed up her trolley.
"But I don't wanna be off my trolley!" the girl whined, holding on even tighter.
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Idiom 6: Bite the dust.
"Bite it! Bite it!" a group of young boys chanted at another boy, who was holding a little bit of dirt in the palm of his hand. The boy stared at it. Then he stared at the boys surrounding him.
"Why?" he questioned.
…
The boys glanced at each other. One boy cleared his throat.
"Eh… because the idiom says so?" he said hesitantly.
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Idiom 7: Cat amongst the pigeons.
"Oh," the cat sighed dreamily, while standing in the middle of a flock of pigeons. "I'm in heaven… or at a buffet. Either one."
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Idiom 8: Fall off one's perch.
"So, how's ol' Earl?" Billy the vulture asked his friend.
The friend, another vulture, shrugged. "He's growin' old, Billy. He's going blind and can't see a thing, but pretends otherwise. Whaddaya expect, those goats are way too stubborn, I'm tellin' ya."
"What, you mean he could -" the friend-vulture tried to say, but he was interrupted by a scream that was coming from above.
"Aaaaaah!" the screamer screamed. A second later the blind goat, Earl, who they had been talking about, fell past the vultures and down.
Billy and his friend followed the goat's fall with their eyes until he went splat into the ground.
Billy's friend grinned at Billy. "So, fancy a few goat spare-ribs from a goat who fell off his perch?"
"Sure," Billy nodded, and both the vultures flew down. "Oh, I love the combination of blind goats and a mountain…" he told his friend on the way down, which was a lot calmer than the way Earl took just a few seconds ago…
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Idiom 9: Feel under the weather.
Adriana sniffed, grabbed a tissue and wiped her nose. "Ugh, I feel so under the weather…" she croaked softly. Not soft enough, because her younger colleague came in and did what she was best at: drooling on their colleague the weatherman.
"Oh yeah," the younger woman sighed. "I feel so under the weatherman…" She noticed Adriana staring at her. "Oh, you… didn't mean… that…? …Oh."
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Idiom 10: Get off one's high horse.
"Get off that high horse, Richard de Lioncourt IV!" someone shouted at poor Richard.
Hurt, he turned towards that person. "You want me to fall off…?" Richard asked timidly. "That's not nice… I don't want you to fall off your shoes either…"
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Idiom 11: Give someone a dose of their own medicine.
Imagine, the doctor thought. Just imagine stuff like this happening to everyone all the time… He looked down at the young girl's hands, that were holding a dose of her medicine under his nose and trying to force him to eat them. She took the whole thing about giving someone a dose of their own medicine a little bit too literally, he observed.
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Idiom 12: Hold your horses.
"Yeah, John! Hold onto your horses! Else they can run off! Like they did now, John!"
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Idiom 13: It's no good crying over spilt milk.
"Whyyyyy! Why did I have to spill the miiiiiiiiiiilk!" the thirteen-year-old cried desperately into his hands. "Why, mom, why?"
His mom merely stood there with her hands on her hips. "It's no good crying over spilt milk, Rob," she told him. "Not if you can just go to the store to buy some new milk. So chop-chop!"
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Idiom 14: No room to swing a cat.
"Remember that old idiom?" Ron drawled, grinning deviously at his sister. "'There's no room to swing a cat'? You say that that idiom fits your room perfectly… Let's test that theory."
"No hurt the kitties!" Ron's sister shouted in shock.
Ron sighed. "No, no, I'm using a stuffed plushie one."
"…Oh. It's not mine, right?"
"No."
After, ah, comforting his sister, Ron grabbed a stuffed plushie and started to swing it in his sister's room, deliberately avoiding the walls by making a few quick turns with his arms.
"See?" he shouted at his sister and grinned at her stunned face when he just missed the wall to the left. "There is room to swing a cat! So no moving to the attic for you, sis!"
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Idiom 15: On the road to recovery.
"You know, it's funny. We're on a literal road to your recovery," Dennis chuckled, smiling at his younger brother who he was bringing to the hospital so the doctors could fix the boy's broken leg.
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Idiom 16: Pop one's clogs.
There was the sound of two somethings being banged against each other in the air. Puzzled, Troy stared at a young girl that was making the sounds by banging two clogs against each other, looking quite frustrated.
Now curious, Troy approached her. "Hello," he greeted. "Why are you banging those two clogs against each other?"
"I am trying to make these clogs make a pop-sound, but they're only making a boring bang-sound," the girl replied through gritted teeth whilst banging the clogs against each other again and again.
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Idiom 17: Recharge one's batteries.
"That's what you do with batteries, yes. But what if one of those stupid little toy cars don't even run on electricity but, oh, I dunno, depend on how hard you push them?"
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Idiom 18: The lights are on, but nobody's home.
"They should be ashamed of themselves," Mrs Adams whispered to Mrs Marple. "The lights are on, but nobody's home."
"An electrical waste, that's what it is," Mrs Marple agreed.
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Idiom 19: Time is money.
"Look!" the desperate homeless man shouted. "I'll swap you my watch for some money! Please! I'm desperate!"
Yeah, a watch is to see time with, so a watch is time, and if you sell your watch, you'll get money, so time is money. It's not only money-ology, it's math!
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Idiom 20: Tip of the iceberg. (No offense meant.)
The majestic, giant, overgrown boat known as the Titanic navigated through the giant icebergs. The crew probably didn't have any common sense, but hey, if people want to navigate a giant ship through an icy landscape – er, waterscape… - of icebergs… it's their own choice.
The ship sailed and sailed (without a sail, mind you) and miraculously didn't hit anything. When the crew started dancing a triumph jig, however, they bumped against an iceberg.
"Alright!" the captain shouted, pointing at the tip of the iceberg, while everyone jumped ship, all in favour of ice cold water, "Who put that there?"
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Idiom 21: Yanking your chain.
Yank!
"Ow!"
YANK!
"Oooooow! Quit yanking my chain!"
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A/N: Not as long as the last one, but alright. I know some of these notes are completely RIDICULOUS. Tell me what you think!