Re: THEORY: questions
| From: | <kam@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 1, 2001, 0:02 |
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On rain, in English we say "It's coming down in bucketsfull" or even
"It's really bucketing down", through "Pissing down" is probably the
most used expression now that it's no longer taboo to say such things.
Unlike the French we do not require a cow, but having heard a cow
"pass water" I can appreciate the aptness of their idiom.
However, what I really wanted to do was give two Welsh idioms (and the
Welsh know about rain the way the Inuit know about snow) ...
Mae'n bwrw cyllyll a ffyrc -- lit. "It's raining knives and forks"
Which seems to capture both the appearance and the sound.
and equivalent to "cats and dogs" they have:
Mae'n bwrw hen wragedd a ffyn -- "It's raining old ladies with sticks"
Keith
PS California has a climate, New England has a climate, Sweden has a
climate ... , but Britain just has lots and lots of weather!
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