tiger mothers and other tiggers

[Randy Alexander]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 2:15 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

> And in the Vietnam era, there was what I assumed was a calque,
> describing the U.S. as a "paper tiger".


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_tiger

I believe it was made popular by Mao Zedong:

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_52.htm

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