Re: USAGE: Cool idioms (was Re: Bibliography)
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 27, 1999, 17:47 |
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On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Tom Wier wrote:
>Adam Walker wrote:
>> >The grammars are still in preparation, and for all
>> >I know, will remain in preparation until Easter and
>> >Pentecost fall on the same day...
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>> Is that a Dutch idiom? Whether it is or not I love it!
>
>I second that! To all non-native-English-speakers, what other
>idioms exist in y'all's languages that have that same general meaning?
n=E5r/til Dovre faller
- when Dovre falls
--> aka. when Hell freezes over
Dovre is a mountaineous region in Norway, and this term is
used in our constitution.. (or was it the speech made after
the cons. was agreed on? I need to fresh up on history it
seems *blush*)
tal.