Thread: Colloquialisms [promises to be Unutterably Silly]
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Old 05-04-2008, 03:47 PM   #113
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Originally Posted by Cthulhu View Post
Most of my favourite colourful idioms 1. Arise from my time in Russia, or 2.are patently dirty (c.f. I'm a sailor)
Don't trust Russian translations. 'The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak' was once famously rendered as 'The vodka is strong but the meat is rotten.'
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