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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)