Minnos: a cat who brings you English idioms

Cats leave little gifts on the doorstep. Minnos leaves you English.

minnos.cc is a very small site with a cat on it. You give her a pet, and she brings you something she found: an English idiom, and every one of them is about cats. Curiosity killed the cat. Let the cat out of the bag. Raining cats and dogs. There are 26 of them to collect.

Each idiom comes with its meaning, and one tap shows the explanation in Uzbek. As you collect them they gather in a list of Minnos's little gifts, and when you have found every one she is very proud of you.

Why something this small

Most of what I build is a tool with a job. Minnos is the opposite: a cosy, low-pressure way to meet a handful of phrases that native speakers use all the time. Idioms are hard to learn from a list because they make no literal sense. Attached to a cat, a tap and a small reward, they stick.

It is also a reminder to myself that the small web is allowed to be playful. Not every page has to convert anybody.

Meet her at minnos.cc.