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Re: USAGE: Inventing gunpowder & idioms

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Monday, March 1, 1999, 18:02
FFlores wrote:

> Oh, I think I've heard that in Spanish too, both "hacer una > tormenta" (make a storm) and "ahogarse" (drown).
In English: a tempest in a teapot. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)