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Re: USAGE: Cool idioms

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Sunday, March 28, 1999, 7:19
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. -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-name: NikTailor