We need more colorful idioms, not less, lest English subside into some unremarkable beige blandness. The English language has always been about cornering other

We need more colorful idioms, not less, lest English subside into some unremarkable beige blandness. The English language has always been about cornering other languages, beating them up, and stealing random pieces of their syntax and vocabulary, usually after corrupting them horribly.