Posted on 23/06/07
Big ideas
As a child, I was puzzled by the phrase, "What's the big idea?" I had only the vaguest notion of what an idea was, and there seemed nothing remotely big about, say, accidentally jostling someone in a line-up, or some other social misdemeanour. Of course, I had no notion what an idiom was, or that such a phrase could be ironic, since it seemed uttered exclusively in annoyance.
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