Idioms
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Cassius Vakarian talks like a human. Post-ME3.
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Cassius loved his mom and all, but sometimes it was really frustrating to have a human for a mother.
Especially when his fellow soldiers found his usage of human phrases hilarious. How was he supposed to know that "three sheets to the wind" wouldn't make sense to other turians?
It was easy enough to figure out not to say "tongue-in-cheek" and "playing chicken" around them, but why did his platoon have to laugh when he suggested that their lieutenant had lost his marbles?
Of course, telling them that his mother was Commander-motherfucking-Shepard seemed to shut them up for a while.
Right up until he said that it was "raining cats and dogs".
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