When speakers of foreign languages try to adapt their own idioms into English, the results can be poetic, if not downright puzzling. A Dallas listener shares some favorite examples from his Italian-born wife, including “I can put my hand to...
watermelon n.— «Major Robert D’Aubuisson, leader of the ultra right Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), likes to compare the Christian Democrats to a watermelon. “Green (the Christian Democrats’ official color) on the...
watermelon n. a communist masquerading as an environmental activist. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
watermelon n.— «The keynote speaker, William H. Holms, presented a talk entitled, “Wimps, Weirdos and Watermelons,” in which he stated environmentalists were just a bunch of unemployed welfare-leeching Communists. He suggested...
watermelon n.— «We have one for the greens—”watermelons” (green on the outside, red on the inside, i.e. closet commies).» —“Fun With Political Hate Speech” by Dean Esmay Dean’s World Apr. 25, 2004...