From: Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>
Subject: Re: Pterodactyl is a dog
Date: 09 Jan 2000 18:27:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lt3ds6eshi.fsf@asfast.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of "10 Jan 2000 00:03:21 +0100"
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@iskon.hr> writes:
> Laura Conrad <lconrad@world.std.com> writes:
>
> > >>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:
> >
> > Kai> I might be seeing white mice, though. (Does that idiom
> > Kai> exist in English? What is the English equivalent?)
> >
> > It doesn't exist in the English I know. What does it mean?
>
> "seeing white mice" == "seeing things that don't exist", I think.
Yes, that's literally correct; however, "seeing pink elephants" is a
traditional English equivalent that fits more or less along the same
metaphorical lines. On the other hand, the "pink elephants"
expression also often has the connotation that the person in question
might very well have been drunk, which might not be included in the
meaning of the "seeing white mice" ... ???
--
Lloyd Zusman
ljz@asfast.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-01-09 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-09 16:35 Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
2000-01-09 17:00 ` Russ Allbery
2000-01-09 18:52 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2000-01-09 19:20 ` Per Abrahamsen
2000-01-09 19:40 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-01-09 22:39 ` Laura Conrad
2000-01-09 23:03 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2000-01-09 23:27 ` Lloyd Zusman [this message]
2000-01-09 23:42 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2000-01-10 3:20 ` Laura Conrad
2000-01-12 11:55 ` Alf-Ivar Holm
2000-01-09 23:05 ` Harry Putnam
2000-01-10 9:53 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-01-10 17:47 ` Karl EICHWALDER
2000-01-11 15:45 ` Robert Epprecht
2000-01-10 8:34 ` Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
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