Re: Much crying for little wool

James Campbell scripsit:
>
> > From:    BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
> >
> > As the Swedish saying goes: "Much crying for little wool, said he who
> > shaved the pig."
>
> In the original, please! That's too good to forget.
This is a known, if perhaps archaic, expression in English too.  It
appears in Roget's under "overestimation" and the following appeared
in an advertisement in an American newspaper in 1817:

"Some of them [i.e. our competitors] too are like that of shearing
the hog, make a great cry for a little wool; but the proof of the pudding
is in the eating.... "

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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