Re: USAGE: Cool idioms
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 28, 1999, 7:19 |
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Fabian wrote:
> neko mo shakushi mo
> --cats and ladles too
> --the world and his granny
I've never heard that expression, I say "everyone and his brother".
> nezumi ni hikare sou
> --ready to be led away by a mouse
> --*very* lonely
That one's a rather nice idiom, I think.
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