Re: Proverb help!
| From: | Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 2, 2002, 9:41 |
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On Mon, 02 Sep 2002 07:40, Padraic Brown wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I was looking through some old notes and found a Kerno
> proverb with no translation. I know all the words, but
> it beats the wahoony out of me what it means, so I'd
> like to hear some suggestions!
>
> It's: "siner lê brocke amb li billen", which literally
> means "to stretch the badger around a tree". Badgers
> figure prominently in Kerno proverbs (to be surprised
> = to be dunked in a barrel with a cat and a badger; to
> get the wrong idea = tickle the badger with your toes)
> but I'm at a loss as to what this one is all about.
I took it as meaning - to grab a tiger by the tail. It's easy to do, to get
started, but not so easy to let go once you've started.
But then, I've never encoutered badgers, I only know they have a bad
reputation for tempers - like all lesser predators.
Wesley Parish
>
> Padraic.
>
> =====
> il dunar-li c' argeont ayn politig;
> celist il pozponer le mbutheor ayn backun gras.
>
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