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Showerthoughts

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It's really weird that early dinners are called "early bird specials" (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Makes it sound like they're serving discounted worms.

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago (5 children)

An “early bird” is a very old idiom for someone who is up and productive early in the morning. See also “early bird gets the worm.”

[–] Palerider@feddit.uk 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But the second mouse gets the cheese...

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Have you ever heard the story about the grasshopper and the octopus?

All summer long the grasshopper worked to gather food while the octopus played video games. Then winter came and the grasshopper died so the octopus took all of his food. Also he got a racecar.

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

Or alternatively early worm gets the bird.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

That's my point: going by the idiom, an early bord special would be a serving of worms 😁

[–] tyler@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

That’s literally what they’re saying…

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago

'The early bird gets the worm' should always be countered with 'but the second mouse gets the cheese'.