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Re: Common World Idioms

From:Steve Cooney <stevencooney@...>
Date:Thursday, February 5, 2004, 1:53
--- Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote:

> LOL. > A friend of mine was quite taken aback when a South > American colleague > excused being late for work by explaining, "I was > stuck to the sheets".... > Turned out, "pegado a las sábanas" simply means "I > just didn't want to get > out of bed."
ROFL. :)
> In Kash we have kratonjep 'doing boring, repetitious > tasks; the daily grind, > the rat-race', it's ultimately a calque on Span. > "dar vueltas a la noria".ly a calque on Span. "dar > vueltas a la noria".
"Kratonjep" is it? Wow, for some reason that makes complete uvular-glottal sense. -S __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/