Re: Common World Idioms

>--- Steve Cooney <stevencooney@...> wrote:
>>  Im curious about idioms, if anyone knows any good
>>  links that look at the very common idioms, such that
>  > most people in the world can understand them.
I've always found it fun that English and Chinese, two totally
unrelated languages with very different histories, deal with "gall"
the same way.

Nenmo da danzi!. = What gall!

Probably related to spleen, bile, the humours, and all that, but wow
(or tee hee hee). There were other aha moments like that when I lived
in China, but they've faded from memory for the time being. I mean,
you'd get those "the dragon spirals while the phoenix foxtrots" for
"he got up on the wrong side of the bed" sorts of things, and then
there'd be some that were spot on with the English. Go figger.

Kou

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