When you hear the word idiom, what do you think of?
Canadians. Of course. You can't help it. It's just the way the brain works.
Of course, idiom means something completely different, but it did get me to thinking. If I substitute the word Canadian into certain idioms, proverbs and sayings, and change them a little bit, can I improve them or at least give them an additional meaning? Here are a few.
Canadians can't be choosers
Nature abhors a Canadian.
The early Canadian catches the road killl
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a Canadian
Canadians breed contempt
A Canadian by any other name would smell as bad
Canadians are stranger than fiction
You can lead a Candian to AA but you can't make him sober up
When the cat's away, the Canadians will have sex with the dog
No Candians is good Canadians
Cleanliness is next to Canadianness......... yeah right