Americans have many clever sayings: Put your shoulder to the wheel; Carry an albatross around your neck; Eat your heart out. It must sound very strange to non-native speakers. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, over three million households are linguistically isolated in America.
My career never suffered from my not being skinny. I never did catwalk work because I was always too big. I couldn’t get the clothes over my hips.
Quotation from Heidi Klum
I’m no model lady. A model’s just an imitation of the real thing.
Quotation from Mae West
Mah-velous.
gotta love mae west
Every cloud has a stitch in time spoils the broth.
I don’t think they are necessarily US grown old saws myself.
The one that springs to mind for models is
“Never mind the quality, feel the width.”
and of course with your modern anorexic there isn’t any.
Despite those directions, I suspect I would trip (and fall?). The jutting the hips forward would do me in.
and if you get dazzled by the lights you might just fall off the runway.
I walk like a model airplane. Bits of me fall off and I get tangled in the thread that suspends me from the ceiling.
Awesome!
Sounds painful…
Mae West is the woman i would love to be around back then. Gotta love her.
I wish I could walk like a model, but my feet hurt too much and I look drunk.