Re: Idioms (was Website update)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 8, 1999, 6:40 |
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Yoshiko McFarland wrote:
> Interesting! Two Kanji characters of "Snake-leg" which directly show "to
> put legs on a snake" in Japanese means to make an unnecessary addition,
> like "to put a fifth wheel to the coach":) Yoshiko
Cool! I wonder if one borrowed from the other, or if they both borrowed
from the same source? I'd suspect Chinese as a source. Does anyone
know for sure about this?
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