29 November 2017: "Also...is it 'nip it in the bud' or 'nip it in the butt'?" --my friend Eva, a non-native English speaker, at lunch today.
And let me be clear: she is absolutely fluent in English--and German and Spanish--it's just the idioms that she asks about sometimes. We had some good laughs at her question, of course. And there are ways that "nip it in the butt" also makes sense.
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