??? 05/27/10 22:06 Read: times |
#176248 - "making donkey out of a mosquito" Responding to: ???'s previous message |
In English it sounds ricidulous but it uses the phonetical similarity of the two "animals" (robit somara z komara) (pretending that a tiny unimportant thing like a mosquito is a big and important one like a donkey) (donkeys used to be of a significant value back than... ;-) )
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Topic | Author | Date |
Tempest in a teapot | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
British | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
In Marathi... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
that's nice :-) | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
Argentina | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
"making donkey out of a mosquito" | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
A donkey? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
As a poor country, we don't have elephants in Slovakia... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
Oh certainly | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
BG | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
Brazilian portuguese | 01/01/70 00:00 |