Putting "bone ants" in my sci-fic story. No one can stop me. (Or the bone ants.)
Bone ants are a mutualistic parasite of humans. They live in your bones like reed-ants, and give you superpowers.
However.
You are full of ants.
@futurebird In Norway, having you "butt full of ants" means you can't sit still. Usually used about kids that run around a lot, like when you're playing you have super powers. So it checks out!
@veronica @futurebird hahahaha in american english it's "ants in your pants" 🐜 
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@ellotheth @veronica @futurebird
We have that term here, for a person who can't sit still, however that has not been used for a long long time. Common in the 80s I think.
Not very autistic friendly as they will interpret it literally, we are meant to avoid idioms, like that, so raining cats and dogs is also out, as it suggests just that.
@zleap @ellotheth @veronica I think the issue with idioms is how people refuse to explain them plainly. Often because they don’t want to admit that they don’t know why people say such nonsense.
@futurebird @ellotheth @veronica
Yeah one example is
Six of one, half a dozen of another, a dozen is 12 there fore 1/2 a dozen is six so 50/50. However unless you know that you're stuck
As for swings and roundabout, people are talking nonsense.
People are usually too embarrassed to ask what things mean, so just say yeah whatever and carryon.
@zleap @futurebird @ellotheth We have the same terms in my language, but nobody uses them any more, so I don't have a feeling of how many a "dozen" is even if I know it means 12. I have to do the conversion in my head when watching TV series from the US.