Exploring Cultural Phrases and Expressions: Indian Giver, Piggy Bank, and Pigheaded

2024-01-22 22:16:00

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23 Jan. 2024 05:16 a.m.

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A person who gives something to someone else and later asks for it back. Westerners call it an Indian giver. Peter gives Rhonda a gold ring. But after 3 months they quarreled. Peter gave a beautiful gold ring to Rhonda, but three months later, like an indian giver, he wanted it back. What was not good? Americans often use the word indian as an adjective, for example indian summer to refer to ‘the hot, dry period that occurs in the fall’, especially in October. After the cold and foggy weather, we had a short indian summer. . After the cold weather and fog. We have dry and hot weather.

In the Thai language we have the word ‘on the neck’ or ‘on the shoulder’. Your readers may have experienced this when they were children. Parents often carry him around the neck or on the shoulder to travel here and there. It looks like this here. In English it is called piggy-back, for example: Little Nick loved to go for a piggy-back ride on my father’s shoulders when he was in Australia during 1978-1979. Little Nick I like to ride my father’s neck. When my father was in Australia from 1978-1979

Readers, have you ever seen the small plastic pig that we use to put coins in? Westerners call it a piggy bank ‘piggy bank’ or ‘piggy bank’. My father gave me a piggy bank yesterday. As for pigheaded, this word is an adjective that means ‘stubborn’, ‘not giving in to anyone’. Uncle Michael was heard shouting at his wife, saying, Stop being so pigheaded. Stop being so stubborn.

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