Now there were even more threads to gather up and spin onto bobbins.
This idiom, previously unknown to me, charms me as I hear it expressed in a lovely and distinct British accent in the audio recording of a novel set in post-WWI Depression-era London.
Is that a delicious little sentence or what?
Even more threads to gather up.
And spin onto bobbins.
Yes! Gather up those threads! Spin them onto bobbins! Everything in order! Everything in its place!
I say it aloud more than once as I move through my day—it is such an eminently usable assertion.
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Have you seen my bobbins anywhere?
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| Even More Threads to Gather Up 4 x 5.5" postcard, acrylic, ink, and collage abstract 2021 |
8 comments:
Gathering the threads of art,life,day,night,birth,death! All these bobbins working together. Love your piece of collage!
Carol, thanks for your salute to the pieces of collage. I had fun going on the hunt for color-matched print paper to press into place.
Hi! I finally made the effort to enter 'parenthetical' to Google Translate (and now I've learned a new word, yay!), and secondly, I entered 'Bobbins' - but I haven't found out what that exactly means! (I found:'crap, rubbish, something worthless or nonsensical quotations')...
I love reading your texts - even though I not always understand what it means, it's always poetical and a feast to read!
Hi Simone, I often think of you when I draft my posts, not wanting to be so 'sophisticated' in my use of language as to leave a non-native speaker not knowing what the heck I was saying. I think of you, too, when I go ahead and use language that would be less-accessible to non-native speakers, knowing that many such folks like to be stretched and given a new word or phrase to add to their working vocabulary (in the same way that I was happy to acquire a new idiom, even though in my case the two languages were American English and British English).
A bobbin is a cylinder or cone holding thread, yarn, or wire, used especially in weaving, machine sewing, and lacemaking.
I'm honored and glad that you enjoy reading my texts and find them poetical even when some words are unfamiliar. Yay!
Bobbins! I hadn't heard that phrase...and now I am tickled by it. And by this piece with the "thread" twirling within it!
I need a buncha bobbins today, I tell ya! More threads to gather every time I turn around. All good, but I gotta get me a bobbin pronto! Thanks for enjoying the idiom and the art with me, Jen : )
I am repeating that to myself... hoping I will remember for the perfect moment to whip it out. Haha. I see the threads! And maybe a bobbin laying on it's side. Makes me think of a few more words. Bippity Boppity Boo. Thanks for the music Dotty! :)
I seem always to be reaching for another bobbin these days for the metaphorical threads EVERYWHERE!
Bippity boppity boo. Perfect for this series!
Thanks, Sheila!
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