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by eevilspock 5123 days ago
How can it be an idiom if we haven't heard of it?
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There are plenty of idioms in Hebrew that I've never heard of.

This is an idiom in a subculture you aren't a part of, in languages you do not speak. There are a lot of them. The author assumed that because J is not really a "mainstream language" that the people reading his blog would probably not be familiar with its idioms.