Evan TS#12

Dojun and I spoke over Skype and talked about more idioms. He thought the phrase "beat a dead horse" was funny. His definition was close to what it actually meant. He guessed that "beat a dead horse" meant that something was useless, but I modified his explanation to say that it means something is uselessly repetitive. If something is repeated too much, then it loses all of it strength. Another comical phrase was "hit the nail on the head." I chose some of these idioms because of their absurdity if understood literally. It would be difficult to guess that "hit the nail on the head" means to get something exactly right if it is understood only in the context of construction. I reinforced the meaning of "hit the nail on the head" when Dojun guessed correctly the meaning of "it's a piece of cake." Also, with the phrase "it's a piece of cake" I made sure to share a few more variations of the idiom like "easy as pie" or "easy-peasy" and even simply saying "that was cake."