That's a homophone, a homonym is a word that is spelled and pronounced the same but has different meanings, like "tap" as in "faucet" and "tap" as in the action of tapping a surface.
Technically, it is a homonym. Homonyms are separated into two categories, homophones (sound the same but spelled differently, such as they're/their/there) and homographs, which are spelled the same but have different meanings, such as lead (the metal) and lead (the verb).
Bull in a China shop - Idiom that describes a clumsy person. The second one is a a kid in a candy store where kid means baby goat as well as a child (human)
Whatever works, I guess, actually in Dutch it is in a 'china-cabinet' (?) as in a closet/cupboard for fragile plates but i guess that word is so old it's not really something anyone actually anyone has like nobody has silverware for special occasions anymore.
The idea of an entire store to sell china is so outdated to be pretty hilarious. Pretty sure the only place I've even seen China is at my Grandmother's house on Thanksgiving.
34 Comments
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de · 89 pts · 1y
Forgive my ignorance, but what is that? A goat? What's the homonym?
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works · 193 pts · 1y
"Like a kid in a candy store", kid = baby goat instead of human child.
simplejack@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 1y
I should start saying “like a goat in a candy store”
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de · 31 pts · 1y
Ah yes, of course
mosiacmango@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
homonyms are words that sound the same but have different meanings. Their/there/they're are classic examples.
konalt@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 1y
That's a homophone, a homonym is a word that is spelled and pronounced the same but has different meanings, like "tap" as in "faucet" and "tap" as in the action of tapping a surface.
Evkob@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 1y
Technically, it is a homonym. Homonyms are separated into two categories, homophones (sound the same but spelled differently, such as they're/their/there) and homographs, which are spelled the same but have different meanings, such as lead (the metal) and lead (the verb).
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1y
Handy chart
moody@lemmings.world · -9 pts · 1y
Led is not spelled the same as lead.
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 1y
yes, but lead is
Evkob@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 1y
Led is the past tense of the verb "to lead".
Led is a homophone of lead (the metal) whereas lead is a homograph of lead (again, the metal).
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y
Lead however is spelled the same as lead, so their point remains.
Dicska@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
I was today years old (non-native).
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
I thought it was store (shop) and store (storage) but yours makes more sense
LammaLemma@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 1y
Bull in a China shop - Idiom that describes a clumsy person. The second one is a a kid in a candy store where kid means baby goat as well as a child (human)
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 17 pts · 1y
In German, it's an elephant instead of a bull is someone is curious
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
We've learned enough about Germans in the last few days on Lemmy.
musubibreakfast@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
I don't wish to learn any more about Germany
huppakee@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y
In Dutch it's also an elephant in case you do want to learn more about Dutch :)
bebabalula@feddit.dk · 3 pts · 1y
Same in Danish - but in a glass store
huppakee@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Whatever works, I guess, actually in Dutch it is in a 'china-cabinet' (?) as in a closet/cupboard for fragile plates but i guess that word is so old it's not really something anyone actually anyone has like nobody has silverware for special occasions anymore.
OfficerBribe@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
It seems it is elephant in most languages. I was not even aware English idiom has a bull instead.
Dicska@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Huh, and I thought it was just us saying it with an elephant.
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
"us" as in?
Dicska@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Oh, sorry : ). Hungary.
OfficerBribe@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
henfredemars@infosec.pub · 14 pts · 1y
“Kid” in candy store.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 1y
daepicgamerbro69@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 1y
candy store 'n up ass ride dick or something, one of those ligma jokes
CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de · 29 pts · 1y
Took me too long to realize that a "China Shop" isn't a place to shop chinese things.
lung@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 1y
That's just any store
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
Most China shops are this too really.
Dragonstaff@leminal.space · 2 pts · 1y
The idea of an entire store to sell china is so outdated to be pretty hilarious. Pretty sure the only place I've even seen China is at my Grandmother's house on Thanksgiving.
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1y
Bull needs roller skates.
Goat needs gloves.
ech@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
Compulsory viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzw2iBmRsjs
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Whatcha bein' so meta for?