Friday, April 22, 2011

Rig Out and A Closed Mouth Catches No Flies

Rigged out for all contingencies
 Today's phrasal verb is Rig Out, which has two meanings:
1-To put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive (transitive/separable).

She likes to get rigged up in the home team jersey and paint her face with grease paint in team colors when she goes to the games.
The young girls were all rigged out for the costume party as a pirate, a cowgirl, and a clown.
 He rigged himself out in a tuxedo for the gala opening of  the opera season

 2- To provide equipment for somebody or something: to fit a person, place, or object with proper or necessary equipment  (transitive/separable)

They rigged themselves out for a long mountain biking trip  
He spent a lot of money rigging out the interior of his automobile.
Okay, the living room is rigged out for the party.  All we need now is guests!

Synonymsequip, provide, prepare, furnish, arrange, fit out
Synonymsdress up, clothe, get up, kit out, attire, deck out


Mother says, "A Closed Mouth Catches No Flies".

Today's idiom, A Closed Mouth Catches No Flies, is a proverb, actually, and it means:
You cannot say an unkind or appropriate word if you don't speak at all

Jack: What do you think of her dress?  Jill:  A closed mouth catches no flies

The origin of this saying comes from an Italian proverb, but it is most famous for being quoted by Sancho Panza in Miguel De Cervantes' Don Quixote.

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