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bilby commented on the word you gave her the fish
Wolof - Jox nga ko jën bi.
March 9, 2009
sonofgroucho commented on the word you gave her the fish
Here is the phone number of the local genitourinary medicine clinic.
March 9, 2009
qroqqa commented on the word you gave her the fish
A surprisingly widespread idiom, with a surprisingly diverse range of meanings. In German, for example, Ich gab ihr einen Fisch means "I gave her a slap upside the head"; whereas in French donner un poisson à quelqu'un is a literary expression meaning "give someone the hump", replaced in modern slang by donner un petit chameau. In Bizkaian Basque, arraina eman is "shudder", though in Navarre it's "wriggle out of a painful obligation". In Malay, saya mau memberi ikan-ikan kepadanya is accompanied by a sinuous gesture of both hands, and must never be uttered in the joint presence of a husband and wife, for fear of drawn-out and sanguinary revenge.
March 9, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word you gave her the fish
SoG: *snort!*
March 9, 2009
rolig commented on the word you gave her the fish
I take it sanguinary revenge is quite different from sanguine revenge.
March 11, 2009