Aunt Flo is visiting
Meaning: A euphemism for having one's menstrual period.
Language: English
Literally: (Already vivid in English)
Example: “No swimming for me this weekend; Aunt Flo is visiting.”
Category: Body & Senses
Origin: A 20th-century pun on "flow," presenting the period as a relative who arrives regularly and stays a few days. It was in wide use by the second half of the century.
Equivalents in other languages
- French: Les Anglais ont débarqué — literally: The English have landed
More idioms — Body & Senses
- laugh one's head off — To laugh very loudly and for a long time.
- in one's birthday suit — Completely naked.
- go under the knife — To have a surgical operation.
- only have eyes for — To be interested in or attracted to one person only.
- shoot oneself in the foot — To damage one's own interests through a foolish action.
- set tongues wagging — To cause people to gossip.
More English idioms
- roll in the hay — To have casual sex.
- thick as a brick — Very stupid.
- shed light on — To help explain something or make it clearer.
- pull an all-nighter — To stay up all night, usually to study or work.
- the gospel truth — Something absolutely true.
- blow a gale — Of the wind: to blow extremely hard.
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