Personal Idioms I Think More People Should Get On Board With

 Hi. Welcome to the blog post. There are certain things I say in everyday life that are references that no one but me understands. This is not my problem. This is everyone else's problem. But luckily, I've graciously decided to share some of my niche personal idioms with you, so that you can get on board.

1. Bright lunch for tomorrow

This one is sort of a family in-joke. There's a hymn that has a line about "bright hope for tomorrow," and for some reason my dad transformed bright hope for tomorrow into bright lunch for tomorrow. Every time you pack a lunch for yourself to take to work or wherever you're going tomorrow, that's bright lunch for tomorrow. Enjoy it!

2. Grabby Hands

Grabby hands originate from the book Well Wished by Franny Billingsley. If you've never heard of this book, it was published in 1997 and only has around 500 ratings on Goodreads, so that may have something to do with it. In the book, the main character Nuria has a number of inside jokes with her father figure, and one of them is "grabby hands," which is what she says when she wants something. I like to say "Grabby hands" and make grabby hands when I want someone to pass me something very interesting. Grabby hands can be whatever feels the grabbiest to you. Just remember not to actually grab, since like, that's rude.

3. A Suitable Basket

With this one, it's slightly easier to just link you to the exact moment that this comes from.

Basically, in the 1982 version of The Scarlet Pimpernel, Marguerite is waiting to go on a date with Percy, and he's late. When he comes in, he says he had a devil of a time finding a suitable basket. Marguerite says, "A...suitable...basket?" In such a distinctive way that I've never forgotten it. Every time I go looking for a basket to hold some knick knacks on a display table at work, I think about suitable baskets. I think we all should spend a little more of our time considering suitable baskets.

(Also, this movie is free on Youtube and it's one of my childhood favorites. It's a good way to spend two hours).

I suppose that's all for now, but expect a sequel to this post when I inevitably think of more of these.