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We will probably bite the sour apple (not sure if this is correct English but you’ll get the meaning even if it’s not) and switch to the data center edition whi

by planb 5y ago

We will probably bite the sour apple (not sure if this is correct English but you’ll get the meaning even if it’s not) and switch to the data center edition which is still on prem but costs approximately twice as much.

MandieD 5y ago
A bit from the Boom Chicago show I saw in Amsterdam around 2004: “The Dutch expression ‘bite the sour apple’ means the same thing as ‘bite the bullet’ - Americans are obsessed with guns, and the Netherlands is full of shitty food.”
- IncRnd 5y ago
  > Americans are obsessed with guns, and the Netherlands is full of shitty food. "Bite the Bullet" is a phrase from an Englishman, Rudyard Kipling, in his first novel, "The Light That Failed". It's believed to have come from the other English idioms, "to bite the cartridge" and "chew a bullet", which date back to 1891 and at least 1796. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bite_the_bullet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bite_the_bullet
- 9935c101ab17a66 5y ago
  Weird... As another commenter pointed out, the origin of 'bite the bullet' is not American at all. And 'biting the sour apple' doesn't imply an affinity for bad food (Apples are shitty? Really?). It's a metaphor about context necessitating action, not a celebration of consuming unpleasant foods.
gpm 5y ago
> not sure if this is correct English but you’ll get the meaning even if it’s not Not an idiom I'm familiar with, but it's grammatically correct and clear so I'd count it as proper. "Bite the bullet" is commonly used.
netsharc 5y ago
You can probably use this 1 week (3 scheduled) outage to ask for a discount, "your cloud offering is a bucket of shit, your data center edition is too expensive, my higher-ups told me to find something else...".
IncRnd 5y ago
You can say, "bite the bullet", which means you accept the the difficulties you know will arise. It's actually a perfect idiom for this case.

by planb 5y ago

MandieD 5y ago

A bit from the Boom Chicago show I saw in Amsterdam around 2004: “The Dutch expression ‘bite the sour apple’ means the same thing as ‘bite the bullet’ - Americans are obsessed with guns, and the Netherlands is full of shitty food.”

IncRnd 5y ago
> Americans are obsessed with guns, and the Netherlands is full of shitty food. "Bite the Bullet" is a phrase from an Englishman, Rudyard Kipling, in his first novel, "The Light That Failed". It's believed to have come from the other English idioms, "to bite the cartridge" and "chew a bullet", which date back to 1891 and at least 1796. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bite_the_bullet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bite_the_bullet
9935c101ab17a66 5y ago
Weird... As another commenter pointed out, the origin of 'bite the bullet' is not American at all. And 'biting the sour apple' doesn't imply an affinity for bad food (Apples are shitty? Really?). It's a metaphor about context necessitating action, not a celebration of consuming unpleasant foods.

gpm 5y ago

> not sure if this is correct English but you’ll get the meaning even if it’s not Not an idiom I'm familiar with, but it's grammatically correct and clear so I'd count it as proper. "Bite the bullet" is commonly used.

netsharc 5y ago

You can probably use this 1 week (3 scheduled) outage to ask for a discount, "your cloud offering is a bucket of shit, your data center edition is too expensive, my higher-ups told me to find something else...".

IncRnd 5y ago

You can say, "bite the bullet", which means you accept the the difficulties you know will arise. It's actually a perfect idiom for this case.