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Yo Idiom!

Yo Idiom! is a show about the efforts of two Raccoons and how they celebrate the weirdness of the English language. It’s set to banging Reggae music.

Professor Douglas Raccoon has spent his whole life studying English idioms - from “Gird up your loins” to “Warm the cockles of your heart”. Now confned to a wheelchair, he runs a mail order business from his hollow log home, helping people understand what these strange phrases mean. Due to his confnement, Professor Raccoon relies on his young grandson Junior to bring him his orders, which arrive each day by‘Treemail’.

Viewers can email in their own Idioms to get answered in the next series.

We collaborated with the very lovely We Buy Your Kids to come up with a totally unexpected look for the series.

There’s such a fantastic range of idioms in the English language. Where did they come from? Why are they still around? What other secrets are hidden inside things we say everyday? Let’s fnd out!

Series Outline

  • Gird one’s loins
  • Toss ones cookies
  • Warm the cockles of your heart
  • On tenterhooks
  • Break a leg
  • Cat got your tongue?
  • From the horse’s mouth
  • Go the whole hog
  • Keen as mustard
  • Pay through the nose
  • Pulling someone’s leg
  • A little bird told me
  • Ace in the hole
  • To kick the bucket
  • Bite the Bullet
  • Three Sheets to the wind
  • Face the music

    • Credits:

    Concept: Sixty40
    Design: We Buy Your Kids
    Scripts: Chris Aronsten

    Tags: 2d

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