Quoting Geoff Horswood <geoffhorswood@...>:
> 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"
I'm tempted to make the Tairezan equivalent something like "nuking a planet to
eliminate a lawyer".
Andreas