From: "Matthew Pearson" <Matthew.Pearson@...>
> However, there are no idioms in English--at least, none that I
> can think of--which consist of a verb and its subject, the object
> having a literal interpretation and varying from context to context.
> For example, we could imagine a hypothetical idiom of the form "The
> toaster burned X" meaning "X went bankrupt":
>
> The toaster burned Pat (= Pat went bankrupt)
> The toaster burned my brother (= My brother went bankrupt)
>
> But no such idioms exist in English. In fact, it's been claimed that
> no language anywhere has such idioms.
"All your base are belong to X"? (= X is in a position of superiority over
you)
*Muke!