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“What you want to do, then, is make your idiom both more idiomatic and more transferable—you want to be able to speak with the person you are speaking with so that you are speaking only to them, on the very topic that drew you into that exchange, in such a way as to make that topic the center of a scene that places only the two of you on it, while at the same time in such a way that either you or your interlocutor might speak with anyone and everyone about that newly created “topic” so as to generate new idioms in each new exchange.”

— Adam Katz, Idiomclining · Jan 01, 2026 · Bouvard Substack