Re: Idioms (was Website update)

Wow!  What interesting idioms! You must have worked long
and hard on those.  Do all of them have inspirations, or did you
just come up with them mostly on your own?

I heard an interesting one from Mayan yesterday:

"To keep the burden of Time" means to maintain the traditions
of sacrifices to the gods and understanding the sacredness of
nature.

Matt Pearson wrote:

> If someone "has guts" it doesn't mean that they're brave
> (as in English) but rather that they have integrity, or that
> they're sincere, honest, open, or humane.  To call someone
> a "guts person" (koin matsak) is rather like a Jewish person
> calling someone a "mensch".
I remember reading about someone specific being called this...
Oskar Schindler?  Can't remember.

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