{"id":3729,"date":"2012-11-09T07:24:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T06:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2012-11-09T07:24:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T06:24:19","slug":"leaf-idioms-turning-over-a-new-leaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/leaf-idioms-turning-over-a-new-leaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaf Idioms &#8211; turning over a new leaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Autumn winds, with a winter whisper right behind them,\u00a0 strip trees of their cover, using it as a marvelous landscape&#8217;s colorful paint. So it\u00b4s no wonder, that leaves also made their way into colloquial Englisch to brighten it up a little:<\/p>\n<p><em>to turn over a new leaf<\/em> = start all over again<\/p>\n<p>Let bygones be bygones let\u00b4s<em> turn over a new leaf<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>a fig leaf<\/em> = to cover up something shameful<\/p>\n<p>The War on Drugs simply provides <em>a fig leaf<\/em> for covering up drug traffickers&#8216; dirty practices.<\/p>\n<p><em>to shake like a leaf<\/em> = to be very nervous or afraid<\/p>\n<p>Johnny was <em>shaking like a leaf<\/em> when he had to go to the job interview.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autumn winds, with a winter whisper right behind them,\u00a0 strip trees of their cover, using it as a marvelous landscape&#8217;s colorful paint. So it\u00b4s no wonder, that leaves also made their way into colloquial Englisch to brighten it up a little: to turn over a new leaf = start all over again Let bygones be [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3731,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions\/3731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}