From: Alf-Ivar Holm <affi@osc.no>
Subject: Re: Pterodactyl is a dog
Date: 12 Jan 2000 12:55:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <r4zouba4i2.fsf@frida.osc.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lt3ds6eshi.fsf@asfast.com>
Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.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?)
>
> Yes, that's literally correct; however, "seeing pink elephants" is a
> traditional English equivalent that fits more or less along the same
> metaphorical lines.
And in Norwegian it is "seeing green polar bears", and in Finnish it
is, as you know, just "seeing penguins". I guess that somebody
somewhere even use the phrase "seeing red gnus" - but then again, that
may imply heavy coffee drinking.
Affi (got his mug yesterday)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-01-12 11:55 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
2000-01-09 23:42 ` Hrvoje Niksic
2000-01-10 3:20 ` Laura Conrad
2000-01-12 11:55 ` Alf-Ivar Holm [this message]
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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