Chalk and Cheese
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Are you like chalk, or are you like cheese?
I'm so sorry, but I don't understand.
Is this some sort of saying?
What do you mean by being like chalk or cheese?
I think I'm more like chalk if I had to take a guess. Old chalk though, not this new stuff. 
Chalk - a soft white, gray, or buff limestone composed chiefly of the shells of foraminifers
Cheese - a food consisting of the coagulated, compressed, and usually ripened curd of milk separated from the whey
Chalk - a soft white, gray, or buff limestone composed chiefly of the shells of foraminifers
Cheese - a food consisting of the coagulated, compressed, and usually ripened curd of milk separated from the whey
@seoulsearch I applaud you. It's always good to ask questions and not answer before understanding. That is a brilliant tactic and one in which I wish I had employed, as I have answered without a clue.
I appreciate the compliment, but to be perfectly honest, the only reason I asked and didn't jump in with an answer is because I just woke up not long ago and am too sleepy to try to make things up yet!
From Google:
"Chalk and cheese" is a common British idiom used to describe two people or things that are completely different from each other, despite sometimes sharing a superficial similarity like a white color. Users across online communities on facebook generally agree that the phrase highlights a stark contrast in personalities, habits, or traits.
Meaning and Usage
- Complete contrast: Highlights that two subjects have nothing in common.
- Similar appearance, different nature: Refers to items that may look alike at a quick glance but are completely opposite in reality.
- People or things: Used for siblings, friends, spouses, or objects and places.
- 14th-century origin: First recorded in John Gower's 1393 poem Confessio Amantis.
- Deceptive trade: Originally referred to dishonest merchants passing off cheap chalk as valuable cheese.
Wow never knew the hystery
Huh well, I like my cheese soft and melty/creamy not too hard that I would confuse it with chalk. Also, most chalk is white and my cheeses are usually pale buttery yellow.
Do some people eat powdery cheese?
Are you an old school teacher who still uses chalk? And do you chalk and talk?
When I went back to school, everyone used either powerpoints or whiteboards. Whiteboard markers are only good if they never run out. But that's never going to happen, plus children are always leaving the caps off felt-tip pens. The bane of teacher's lives.
Chalk dusters are easier to throw too, and can be used for discipline.
Bart Simpson would never write his lines with whiteboard markers.
Are you an old school teacher who still uses chalk? And do you chalk and talk?
When I went back to school, everyone used either powerpoints or whiteboards. Whiteboard markers are only good if they never run out. But that's never going to happen, plus children are always leaving the caps off felt-tip pens. The bane of teacher's lives.
Chalk dusters are easier to throw too, and can be used for discipline.
Bart Simpson would never write his lines with whiteboard markers.
The shells of ....what?I think I'm more like chalk if I had to take a guess. Old chalk though, not this new stuff.
Chalk - a soft white, gray, or buff limestone composed chiefly of the shells of foraminifers
Cheese - a food consisting of the coagulated, compressed, and usually ripened curd of milk separated from the whey
So - is 'hystery' supposed to be a combination of 'history' and 'mystery'?
I would most certainly not want to get them mixed up!
Brie or Camembert has a white rind. Actually Camembert is quite nice, and similar to Brie. I would never mistake it for chalk though. Chalk usually comes in sticks, not little round flat cakes.
I think the American term must be apples and oranges
In any case you need to know your onions, and I suppose if you don't, you're pretty clueless if you can't tell the difference between different type of alliums and flower bulbs.
I think the American term must be apples and oranges
In any case you need to know your onions, and I suppose if you don't, you're pretty clueless if you can't tell the difference between different type of alliums and flower bulbs.