Re: Examples wanted: How do you say this?

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 09:20:08 -0700, Gregory Gadow <techbear@...> wrote:

>> Hey!
>>
>> I guess Ayeri would "shoot with canons on sparrows"[1]
>
>-snip-
>
>> [1] I didn't find a translation for "mit Kanonen auf Spatzen
>> schießen" in my dictionary. It means that you use all the
>> power of a method for something for which an easier method
>> would have worked as well, maybe even better.
>
>Heh, my conculture has a similar expression: dife'llan büshaxhe
>dhichol-ainom "to hunt squirrel with a catapult."
>
>Gregg Gadow
The Xinkutlan say "to kill lice with a hammer"

Geoff

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