Skip to main content

Home/ Groups/ AED322 Visual Culture & Educational Technologies F2012
Rss Feed
Sort By: Most Recent | Popular Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
zack artz

Close but no cigar - YouTube - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

shared by zack artz on 16 Oct 12 - No Cached
    • zack artz
      zack artz on 16 Oct 12
       
      I chose this video from YouTube, because it is a perfect example of how to use the term "close but no cigar." The person video taped this shot with the intention of it going in the hole, but it ended up stopping just short. This term is widely used in sports as you can see from the video, but it can be used in any concept that involves coming close to succeeding but falling just short in the end.
    • Jessica Grentz
      Jessica Grentz on 23 Oct 12
       
      This saying always makes me wonder where the term comes from. What makes the prize a cigar. Well apparently it comes from when carnivals gave out prizes such as cigars. If you won the carnival game like throwing the ball and knocking down all the bottles, the good prize would be a cigar. If you didn't win the game the carnival person would say "close but no cigar".
  • Ally Aubry on 23 Oct 12
     
    I wonder how this saying has changed over time. Maybe, as Jessica stated, cigars were considered a huge prize back in the day. Does this have as much relevance nowadays? I like the saying and I hear it all the time and never thought about it this thoroughly.
Samantha McCoy

It will heal before you're married example - 3 views

palmerkane.photoshelter.com/...I0000iaGxFsQZh3c

shared by Samantha McCoy on 16 Oct 12 - No Cached
    • Samantha McCoy
      Samantha McCoy on 16 Oct 12
       
      It will heal before you're married is a reassuring way to remind a physically or emotionally injured child that everything will be okay with time. Here you see a mother comforting a child after he falls off his bike, which is probably the perfect time for a person to use this phrase, "It will heal before you're married."
    • lauravattulainen
      lauravattulainen on 05 Nov 12
       
      So true:) Child forgets more easily. Adult´s should learn something for children, joy of life!! Nice picture indeed:)
  • Annu Kangas on 01 Nov 12
     
    Hey, I really liked your picture. :) It's funny how that phrase feels so anoying! I still remember the time when I was little and something terrible happened and the my parents didn't seem to take it seriously enough. Everything seems so much bigger for a child. Luckily a child forgets easily and a child's wounds heal faster than an adult's. ;)
  • minnvain on 05 Nov 12
     
    Hello Samantha,I thought your saying was funny, the meaning is clear, but we don`t have anything similar in finish, at least that I know of. Now days the saying can also be problematic, we live in the modern age when people can get married several times in their lifetime and many don't ever want to get married. What could be its modern analog? It`ll heal before you get your own house? or permanent job? :) What do you think?
  • tiia saari on 13 Dec 12
     
    I haven't heard that phrase before but I think it's good one. It's funny how we think that our problems are so big but when time goes on we realize they actually weren't that big. Maybe Nicholas Spark said it better: "When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through."
Kelsey Shields

FOX Broadcasting Company - Hell's Kitchen on FOX - Official Site - 1 views

www.fox.com/hellskitchen

shared by Kelsey Shields on 16 Oct 12 - No Cached
    • Kelsey Shields
      Kelsey Shields on 16 Oct 12
       
      This website for the show Hell's Kitchen, takes the saying to a more literal meaning, but the principle is the same. The show takes the competitors through intense cooking challenges and if they do not perform well, they are kicked off. The heat in this situation is the intense challenges and if the competitors cannot handle it, they have to leave. In the competitors is a strong drive to win and they definitely do not like to look weak.
Henna Hyry

TRANSCULTURAL DIALOGUES (Helsinki University and Penn State University) - 143 views

Hello! My name is Henna and my idiom is "Tekevälle sattuu". It can be translated "more you do, more happens". It means that someone who does many things does more likely also mistakes. Still its be...

transcultural dialogue social media metaphor

started by Karen Keifer-Boyd on 09 Oct 12 24 follow-ups, last by Henna Hyry on 07 Nov 12
« First ‹ Previous 41 - 44
Showing 20▼ items per page