Its April of 2017 and Day 07 of A to Z Challenge. I am doing Idiom a day and 8 line poem for the idiom.
Idiom: Guinea-pig
Meaning: one is a guinea-pig when made to take part in an experiment of some sort and used in the testing, where new ideas and products are tested
Poem:
You won’t believe what happened next,
You won’t believe what he said,
What happens next is amazing,
Fifth one is my favorite,
Etc etc crap,
Click baits on social platforms.
We,
The guinea-pigs!
Note: All the challenge prompts can be found HERE.
Its PH 
Sometimes voluntarily, sometimes involuntarily but we end up being Guinea pigs in so many situations.
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He he.. true that! Thank you so much for the read and thoughts.. 🙂
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Absolutely true!
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Thanks a lot.. 🙂
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I’m really curious how it was decided the guinea pig would be the symbol for the term–is there a real guinea pig? I’m guessing they must have made good subjects for scientific testing? But why, or how?
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I did do a little reading on that. They have been used for testing since 17th century, later along came rats and rodents.
But the metaphor of Guinea-pig has still remained, as it carries the long old history!
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WOW, that does go back a long way–thanks for your research and reply!!
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Pleasure! 🙂
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🙂 🙂
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Many times we make ourselves Guinea-pigs 😀
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Knowingly and Unknowingly! 😀
Thank you so much for the thoughts.. 🙂
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Nice flow of words!
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Many Thank you..:-)
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Amazing. 🙂
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Yay! Thanks a lot.. 🙂
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Yay! You are welcome. 😀
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I love the poem but I feel bad for the Guinea pig though. I’m sure it’s wondering what the hell did it do to deserve this definition 😛
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He he.. If they knew how to talk!
Thank you so much.. 🙂
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[…] Orígenes: Conejillo de Indias […]
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Very true…Splendid..
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Thank you so much.. 🙂
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I’m really enjoying your idioms, Prahash.
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Thank you so much. I am enjoying doing poems on them. 🙂
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So true.
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🙂 Thanks a lot.. 🙂
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Guinea pig and punching bag : two idioms often used by mom to show how we treat her
Lol
I also have a guinea pig at home to test food cooked by me. I call him husband
😂😂
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He he.. I guess every mom feels that. 😛
lol. Been there, as that kind of guinea pig. 😀
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Haha
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In very innovative manner the term is being explained.
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Thank you so much.. 🙂
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