idiom examples

[Stephen Oppenheimer]

At 19:41 28/02/99 -1000, Chaumont Devin wrote:

>No, no, no, NO!  All of you are wrong.  The original is:
>
>Bapa kincing badiri, ana kincing lari-lari.

Surely you are all right! 'There are more ways to skin a cat ...'

Idiom, like folklore and languages, should be subject to movement, variation
and evolution - both in geographic and temporal dimensions.

Stephen Oppenheimer