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!