Once More, With Idioms

Dan Hon
Dan Hon
Jul 21, 2017 · 2 min read

I could keep doing this forever.

Wiktionary has a list of English idioms.

I apparently have free time and a neural network that needs training.

Here are some neural-network generated English idioms.

Some just sound dirty:

  • hand on the butter
  • bang out
  • make one’s sing the cat
  • come come and a come
  • pat the the root of the buck
  • pill the banger
  • get one’s chinger
  • mut the mast
  • bat the shack
  • blow a man
  • bat one’s bull
  • pat the bard
  • do the bang
  • show the bean
  • mack the bead

Some sound better with a cockney accent:

  • in the shout
  • ching the dinter
  • bat the shanger
  • crack the cust
  • fack end
  • bit and picker
  • on the mowser

Some sound like they’re in Ye Olde English:

  • on the loust
  • go shit one’s in the pall
  • cast a boil
  • pot of someone of one’s sout
  • on the bory
  • roon the comels of the bell
  • go ald one’s nother
  • call one’s mage
  • crave shits on the meater
  • hold one’s farter
  • pot the broth
  • pot a rook

Some sound like a combination:

  • nit one’s parling
  • beat one’s bole
  • call of one’s nord end
  • for the tort
  • fist in the sheet
  • bunt one’s beth
  • bad one’s carting
  • blow the bard

And some sound like (or already are) reasonable idioms:

  • dig the deed
  • for the beer
  • in the back
  • bat in the cog
  • low horse in the bed
  • off the sheet
  • back of the crown
  • bling of the dust
  • bead of the porn
  • go put in the boot
  • down the boot
  • card of the singer
  • hand baring to the pill
  • head of the bars
  • dot the post
  • bake a base
  • hear the shout
  • sell the barn
  • on the butt
  • do the bus
  • on the down
  • rose horn
  • set to bool
  • pimp home word
  • on the dine
  • get boop
  • bet of the math
  • bet of the bed
  • fit the star
  • hot out
  • bing of someone’s band
  • for the ping
  • kill the mick
  • prick bat
  • ping the hand
  • frat on the shit
  • hack a cone
  • dot out
  • on the fare
  • rack the sell
  • lag of shock
  • have the cat
  • no pooter
  • do the call
  • on the call
  • on the track
  • but on a sticker
  • have the pill
  • cup corn
  • bat a dill
  • and someone’s down
  • night to the brows
  • on the bound
  • lack of the fart
  • put on the bake
  • lose out in the call
  • great on the base
  • free of the card
  • hang in shit
  • mall stint
  • back the shot
  • bet the home
  • barn mouth
  • bet the dead
  • bone work

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