Originally Posted by Chase

I like this game, too. It's very helpful to me to practice signing.

I don't have trouble thinking up English idioms, because I worked for a Japanese computer company in the early '80s teaching weekly classes to explain our crazy idioms.

The hard part for me is trying to put the signs into words. I have to sign the phrase many times and try to write it so it makes sense. Good practice.

Here's my next one:


This three-word English idiom means "dead" or “died.” In ASL, the middle word is not signed.

1. Hold the left S hand palm up, while the right B hand swings into it for “football” or “soccer.”

2. With the right arm out, closed hand down, the left index finger makes a loop underneath from wrist to elbow for “pail.”