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Re: Question about an English expression

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 2, 2001, 1:34
I think I encountered it maybe in one of Anne McCaffrey's books, but I
won't swear to it.  Did it end, "we'd walk on the sea"? or something
remotely close to that?

On Tue, 1 May 2001, Nik Taylor wrote:

> In a book somewhere, I encountered a saying that began "If wishes were > fishes ...", but I can't remember the rest of it. Is anyone familiar > with this saying? It's really been bugging me lately.

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