Agricultural expressions are phrases rooted in agricultural actions and products that are a way of conveying emotional information from person to person. There are two classes of of these “agrexes”: grain and fruit. Grain agrexes relate dissatisfaction, anger, or infuriation, while fruit agrexes convey satisfaction, happiness, or positivity. The following is an extensive list of agrexes:

Grain

• to thresh one’s rye
• to mill one’s wheat
• to hull one’s rice
• to harvest one’s barley
• to grind one’s corn

Fruit

• to juice one’s oranges
• to slice one’s apples
• to pick one’s grapes

The above lists are the only approved agricultural expressions, though forms of them are perfectly acceptable and encouraged. Take the following expressions and their respective literalizations:

• That threshes my rye.
  • That gets me angry.
• You thresh my rye.
  • You make me angry.
• My rye has been threshed.
  • I am angry.

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