[Lexicog] animal metaphors

Translation MALI translation_mali at SIL.ORG
Fri Mar 12 20:21:11 UTC 2004


Chaz,

In German we say "he behaves like an elephant in a china-shop."

Fritz Goerling


John,

A man who was recently president of a Central American country was known as
"El Toro" (the Bull) because of his corpulence and bull-in-a-china-shop
style of politics.

-Chaz Mortensen









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