Idiots Still Talking Idioms! Special Reissue

Idiots Still Talking Idioms! Special Reissue

From Oops, Your Culture's Showing! by Oops, Your Culture's Showing! ©2018: Dean Foster, Tom Peterson, and Torin Peterson

October 23, 2025 · 35 min

About this episode

The episode explores various idioms across cultures and their meanings, providing insights for travelers encountering unfamiliar phrases.

After recently exploring what certain words and phrases say about culture, we thought it time to re-explore what other certain phrases – idioms – say about – yes – culture! With that, enjoy this special reissue of our 47th episode, “Idiots Talking Idioms”, from March 2024. (And don’t forget: Dean’s newest book, “Business Beyond Borders: Stories, Tales, and Lessons Learned from Working in 100 Cultures Around the World” , will be released Nov. 4th in hardcover and Nov. 6th in Kindle and audiobook. Pre-order it today!) Dean and Tom have truly “fallen down the rabbit hole” in this episode as they explore different idioms across cultures, offering context as well as advice on what to do when faced with unknown idioms on your travels. (A preview: An idiom in another country may feel like it “comes out of left field,” but give yourself some grace – you’re not an ‘idiom idiot’!) We know that you’ll enjoy listening to this idiotic idiomatic episode “as soon as possible” (when is this? that’s up to you!) because you’re all “pieces of bread”, “salt of the earth”, and other figurative fundamental foodstuffs! *** Subscribe to Dean’s…

People in this episode

Hosts: Dean Foster, Tom Peterson, Torin Peterson

Topics covered

  • idioms
  • culture
  • language
  • travel

Keywords

  • idiomatic expressions
  • cultural insights
  • language learning

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Business Beyond Borders: Stories, Tales, and Lessons Learned from Working in 100 Cultures Around the World

Books & works: Idiots Still Talking Idioms, Idiots Talking Idioms, Business Beyond Borders: Stories, Tales, and Lessons Learned from Working in 100 Cultures Around the World, Culture’s Consequences, CultureQuizzes

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