>>>>When I was in grade school, my English teacher would make us write 'anyone' 100 times if we used the word 'anybody' instead.
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>>>Our English teacher would make us write out lines of "I must not use get, got or getting" if we used any. He was mad.
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>>Simply writing 'color' was quite enough to 'get' mine into the curtains...
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>Presume "into the curtains" is a Belgian idiom (but which language) - never heard it in English.
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>"Up the pole", "off his head" "off his cake" (Scouse), "to lose his rag", "throw a wobbly", et al, et al. :-)
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>B-

Oh i did know it wasn't an English idiom...but you have to agree it's far more graphic than your English examples.

And who knows maybe i added something to the English language. <s>

BTW "off his cake" was an expression i hadn't heard before...might be because it's Liverpudian.

Idioms can be quite tricky if one speaks several languages though.
Small example :
dutch : elephant in a china-chop
English: bull in a china-chop

A+
jml