[Lexicog] new idiom

[Melissa Axelrod]

This is a very annoying thread.
  Melissa Axelrod

Hayim Sheynin wrote:
>
> Fritz,
>
> I use the name Xanthippe almost every day. I relay this name to wives 
> of artists and scholars who do not give them opportunity to work on 
> their projects,
> but force them go for jobs to bring money home. Such wives do not 
> appreciate the talents of their husbands and do not recognize their 
> work as necessary.
> This is definitely the name for the category of women.
> What other names of wives of famous men can be a characteristic of a 
> category?
>
> Hayim
>
> */Fritz Goerling <Fritz_Goerling at sil.org>/* wrote:
>
>     David,
>      
>     "Battle-axe" is a good one. No equivalent in German. In some
>     languages the names of wives of famous men have entered the language
>     to characterize a certain kind of woman: like Xanthippe
>     (Socrates'wife) is used in English and German.
>      
>     Fritz
>      
>     My dad used to say that a little incompatibility wasn't such a bad
>     thing in a marriage, especially if he had the income and she had
>     the pattibility.
>
>     Do German, Polish, Russian, etc., have anything parallel to the
>     English "battle-axe" for a certain kind of woman?
>
>     --David T
>
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