ASL Idioms?

Athena · 07-19-2005, 09:53 PM

I am wondering if anyone here knows any ASL idioms. I have seen "train go sorry" but that is the only one anyone has ever shown me, and I know there has to be more, every language has them...

deaf24fan · 07-19-2005, 10:19 PM

I think there's one we all seen often is "wop" sign meaning I'm already know about it and am experienced and bored with it.
You sign with open palm faced down on chin and then move across and close the hand into fist.

Daft · 10-28-2005, 07:25 AM

The ASL idiom "swallow fish" means "gullible".

jasin · 07-19-2008, 09:42 PM

There are literally 1000's of idioms in Asl.

jasin · 07-19-2008, 09:43 PM

Mind escape and Mind freeze. Those is two very common ones. Mind freeze is like a brain fart. Mind escape is like memory loss.

**Bottesini** · 07-19-2008, 09:46 PM

The letter "I" signed repeatedly on the chest with alternating hands means "egotistical".

jasin · 07-20-2008, 01:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Bottesini

The letter "I" signed repeatedly on the chest with alternating hands means "egotistical".

conceit, narcissism, pride, vainglory, vainness, and vanity too! I, I, I .. all about one's self.

**Bottesini** · 07-20-2008, 09:50 AM

"legs in air" = suddenly taken sick or hurt

jasin · 07-20-2008, 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Bottesini

"legs in air" = suddenly taken sick or hurt

lol

seriously?

ade674 · 03-22-2009, 11:36 AM

Another ASL idiom is finish touch. That one is used to mean that you have already been somewhere. Other examples include mind frozen (cannot think),vomit (hate that), and swallow pride (feel like fool).

Frisky Feline · 03-23-2009, 05:22 AM

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Originally Posted by jasin

lol

seriously?

The legs weren't spread wide. SIGNING in the 2 pairs of fingers look like legs. as to signing legs were going (either right or left) curve in the air together.

Vadim · 04-24-2009, 05:50 PM

"Y" shape palms out, nodding head, bouncing arm around chest area

georgeb · 04-24-2009, 10:13 PM

"COW-IT" is roughly translated into I don't care for something
hand shape--- y hand shape moving down into a d hand shape
location--- forehead and infront of face
movement--- forward and downward
palm orientation--- facing away from you, and downward
non manual markers--- tilt head on cow, and scrunch face on it
george bethell

JennyHart · 04-26-2009, 02:52 PM

the idiom "On the Fence" meaning you haven't made a decision about something is signed with both hands stacked on top of each other in a flat hand with palms facing opposite ways, and wiggling the top hand back and forth while making a concerned facial expression.

**Smithtr** · 04-30-2009, 11:38 PM

that is complication to sign language. it is hard to ASL idiom

**Rio** · 06-25-2009, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by jasin

There are literally 1000's of idioms in Asl.

I am reading about idioms and that there are few ASL idioms. Maybe, this article is old

Bebonang · 06-25-2009, 10:18 PM

I do not understand any of the ASL idioms which is really way out of this world.

Does this word "idiom" mean the same for phrases so that would confuse all of us not understand what they mean like "werd" which is a different meaning instead of "weird"?

**Bottesini** · 06-25-2009, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Bebonang

I do not understand any of the ASL idioms which is really way out of this world.

Does this word "idiom" mean the same for phrases so that would confuse all of us not understand what they mean like "werd" which is a different meaning instead of "weird"?

Yes that is right that idioms mean something different from what they actually say.

JClarke gave one last night in a thread about slang- "Away with the pixies" which is meaning a person is daydreaming in Australian slang or idiom.

Here is a link to common idioms that are used in ASL.

http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/staff/kath...ut/_Idioms.pdf

**Rio** · 06-26-2009, 12:06 AM

English idiom

kick the bucket meaning to die

hold(one's) horses meaning to slow down , wait and not be impatient.

ASL

Train fade-out-of-sight meaning, 'Sorry, you missed it.

my source from The Original Green Book by Charlotte Baker-Shenk and Dennis Cokely.

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georgeb Registered User Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 1	cow-it "COW-IT" is roughly translated into I don't care for something hand shape--- y hand shape moving down into a d hand shape location--- forehead and infront of face movement--- forward and downward palm orientation--- facing away from you, and downward non manual markers--- tilt head on cow, and scrunch face on it george bethell

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07-19-2005, 10:19 PM	#2 (permalink)
deaf24fan Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 239	I think there's one we all seen often is "wop" sign meaning I'm already know about it and am experienced and bored with it. You sign with open palm faced down on chin and then move across and close the hand into fist.

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Daft Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 222	The ASL idiom "swallow fish" means "gullible".

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jasin Banned Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Puyallup, Washington Posts: 1,570	There are literally 1000's of idioms in Asl.

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jasin Banned Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Puyallup, Washington Posts: 1,570	Mind escape and Mind freeze. Those is two very common ones. Mind freeze is like a brain fart. Mind escape is like memory loss.

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ade674 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1	Another ASL idiom is finish touch. That one is used to mean that you have already been somewhere. Other examples include mind frozen (cannot think),vomit (hate that), and swallow pride (feel like fool).

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JennyHart Registered User Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 1	the idiom "On the Fence" meaning you haven't made a decision about something is signed with both hands stacked on top of each other in a flat hand with palms facing opposite ways, and wiggling the top hand back and forth while making a concerned facial expression.

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Smithtr Siberian Husky Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 14,680	that is complication to sign language. it is hard to ASL idiom

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Bebonang Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Manitoulin Island on Lake Huron in Canada Posts: 7,009	I do not understand any of the ASL idioms which is really way out of this world. Does this word "idiom" mean the same for phrases so that would confuse all of us not understand what they mean like "werd" which is a different meaning instead of "weird"? __________________ I HAVE BEEN DEAF SINCE BIRTH, AND IT IS STILL AWESOME TO BE . (thumb up) (very happy)

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