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Idiom: Swear a blue streak
Most Japanese learners of English do not know how to swear in English, let alone swear a blue streak.
You may think that swearing is crass, makes a person sound uneducated and indicates a lack of self-control.
I will say it depends on the situation.
When you swear a blue streak, you rapidly use many swear words in a row and with intensity.
We have to keep in mind that there is a difference between using a well-placed swear word in conversation and cussing a blue streak.
If you want to know why swearing is essential, I have created a lesson, ‘Why you should learn to swear.’
Check it out if you like.
When you swear a blue streak, you rapidly use many swear words in a row and with intensity.
My father was a great swearer.
When angry, he could swear five or six four-letter words in a row, fall silent for a few seconds, then let go with eight or nine more.
The two sentences would meet in the air and explode into a ball of fire, smoke and sparks.
In short, my father could swear a blue streak that would put the devil to shame.
One spring, while pulling a sled load of cordwood across a pond with our horse, Queen, she fell through the ice.
Instantly my father flung me across the ice to safety.
Of course, Queen began kicking and screaming in a panic.
I’ve told you my father could swear a blue streak when he was angry, but it was a super-powered blue streak when he was scared.
Not only did he use words I had never heard before, but he also invented new ones.
The ice melted with the intensity of the four-letter vocabulary that came out of that man’s mouth.
We all got to shore, but the horse went deaf, and I have never been the same since.
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