[Lexicog] "Overly Talkative" Part II (Call for Others)

Chaz Mortensen chaz_mortensen at SIL.ORG
Thu Nov 6 12:31:57 UTC 2008


Scott,

A pretty famous Spanish saying is "flies cannot enter a closed mouth."

-Chaz

On Nov 6, 2008, at 7:19 AM, bolstar1 wrote:

> Sorry, folks, but it occurred to me that I overlooked the
> proverb, "Nothing is opened more often by mistake than the mouth." If
> you have any other expressions that I missed, please let me know.
> (Regionalisms, Non-American-dialect equivelants, out-dated (yet
> pertinent), equivelants..........jokes,one-liners, etc. ALSO welcomed.
>
> Thanks......
>
> Scott N.
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