LIKE A BUMP ON A LOG and SET YOUR TEETH ON EDGE:
FROM SAMPATH’S DESK: LIKE A BUMP ON A LOG and SET YOUR TEETH ON EDGE: LIKE A BUMP ON A LOG: Meaning: Inactive - not responding - unmoving - idling – inert – stupidly silent without doing anything - சும்மாவே இருத்தல் Origin of the idiom: Mark Twain, the author of ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ and ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’, among other great books, used this simile (a comparison often using ‘like’ or ‘as’) in 1863. A BUMP ON A LOG is an immovable lump of wood. In this idiom, it represents a fixed, motionless person. The exact words used by Mark Twain in 1863 were – “You have been sitting there for thirty days LIKE A BUMP ON A LOG.” The idiom was also used by popular writers like Kate Douglas Wiggin in his ‘The Birds’ Christmas Carol’ (1899). Example sentences: Don’t just sit there LIKE A BUMP ON A LOG; help me lift this bag. Mr. X ...