{"id":3732,"date":"2012-11-09T19:33:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T18:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/?p=3732"},"modified":"2012-11-09T19:35:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T18:35:16","slug":"lip-idioms-not-just-paying-lip-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/lip-idioms-not-just-paying-lip-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Lip Idioms &#8211; not just paying lip service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lips are an important part of the human body, so it is only logical, that they also form part of every day colloquial English.<\/p>\n<p><em>to pay lip service<\/em> =\u00a0 only to agree with words, not with actions<\/p>\n<p>e.g. Don&#8217;t just <em>pay lip service<\/em>, do something about it.<\/p>\n<p><em>to keep up stiff upper lip<\/em> = showing persitence in the face of adversity<\/p>\n<p>e.g. Don\u00b4t let this get you down, <em>keep a stiff upper lip.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>to give sombody a lip<\/em> = being disrespectful verbally<\/p>\n<p>e.g. <em>Don&#8217;t give me no lip<\/em>, show some frigging respect.<\/p>\n<p><em>loose lips, sink ships<\/em> = careless talk can cause damage<\/p>\n<p>e.g. Just shut up, don&#8217;t you know that <em>loose lips sink ships<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lips are an important part of the human body, so it is only logical, that they also form part of every day colloquial English. to pay lip service =\u00a0 only to agree with words, not with actions e.g. Don&#8217;t just pay lip service, do something about it. to keep up stiff upper lip = [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","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-3732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3734,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions\/3734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}