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porokusema--I wonder, is that a great distance (or a smaller one?) than a 6 year old (or 60 year old!) can travel in a car?
We called 'comfort breaks',, euphemistically, 'travel information' (and we always need alot!)
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Oh, these are GREAT, Anna! Thanks for posting them!
"cows have drunk his brain". !
They must have a lot of brazen women in the Philippines: the action of a woman who, when she wants to marry a man, goes to his house and refuses to leave until marriage is agreed upon.
Several show that things are the same all over the world:
Kaelling - Danish: a woman who stands on her doorstep yelling obscenities at her kids.
Kamaki - Greek: the young local guys strolling up and down beaches hunting for female tourists, literally "harpoons".
Hira Hira - Japanese: the feeling you get when you walk into a dark and decrepit old house in the middle of the night.
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Mariteddu Tamant'e Un Ditu Ieddu Voli Essa Rivaritu -
Corsican: a husband must be respected even if he is very short.
I find this one really cute.
De vraag is alleen hoe kort? Waist high? Knee high? Ankle high?
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From "Weird and wondrful (sic) foreign phrases.."
...Or wondered why there isn't a nice pithy term for a person who is only attractive if they're standing quite far away?
But there is…in French, we say “Elle est belle de loin, mais loin d’être belle.” Translated: “She's beautiful from far, but far from beautiful.”
Kanjus Makkhicus - Hindi: a person so miserly that if a fly falls into his cup of tea, he'll fish it out and suck it dry before throwing it away.
Um. Yuck! Yuck! Yuck!
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“Elle est belle de loin, mais loin d’être belle.” yep, I spose that is considered a 'pithy term' in French.  - ron o.
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Mais oui, it is very pithy...short direct and memorable. :- P  (hey, how come we don't have a sticking-out-your-tongue emoticon)
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Mais oui, it is very pithy...short direct and memorable. It is. A fine exemple of 'un mot d'esprit'. Un bon mot. At the court of Louis XVI one could climb to a high position or fall down to deepest disgrace by producing or missing 'un mot d'esprit'. There is a very good movie about this by Patrice Leconte: I keep it on tape as a most pleasant, witty movie. RidiculeCésar du cinéma 1997 -------------- ____________________ Baffona - Italian: an attractive moustachioed woman. There are many goodies, AnnaStrophic 
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(hey, how come we don't have a sticking-out-your-tongue emoticon) because mostly the emoticons are hideous? strange, there is a :¬ P emote that can be used as a Post Icon, so I suppose if you wanted to do the work you could find the url for it, and use it, but.
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Lemme try my favorite:  Hmm--it works, sort of. Dunno how to get rid of the box.
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