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Piglet:
Snow-blindness?
Northern lights?
Is it some kind of feeling? Like feeling a gust of coldness out of blue for a moment. Or some kind of desire to jump down a mountain?
Vägivald doesn't mean dictatorship but dictatorship involves a lot of it.
Still repeating
Long-eye
Lightnings' Mihkel (a male name)
yep...Quote:
Originally Posted by RJbibliophil
hehe, here's some pics of the kinds of expressions this saying refers to:
http://www.petsalley.com/photos/dachshund.jpg
http://www.hatchfarms.cwhatch.com/ph...dachshund2.jpg
http://z.dspn.de/albums/album44/CIMG0310.sized.jpg
hum... Pen or somebody mentioned icicles.. is that correct?
Tal: Lightning's Mihkel.. a tree that's been struck by lightning?
Long-eye: a telescope????
Namashkar, aaiye baithye. Kya lenge aap, kuch thanda ya garam?? (Hindi)
Hello, please have a seat. What would you like to have, something cold or hot?? (English transaltion)
Bahar bahut ghaam ba. (Bhojpuri, a dialect spoken usually in Eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar)
It is very sunny outside. (English translation)
Lightnings MIhkel - not even close. Smaller. Way smaller.Quote:
Tal: Lightning's Mihkel.. a tree that's been struck by lightning?
Long-eye: a telescope????
Long-eye - almost. Very almost.
Tal-Periscope?
Sleepy-Begging?
Eivind Beinlaus is not substantial like icicles.
I like your third thought Tal. It is amazingly close, but it depends how you interpret it. :p
In British slang that's a cheater. Not in American slang. In spite uv me accent, Guv, Oi be a Yank! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by cruciverbalist
Piglet Eivind Beinlaus--A lost of depth perception brought on by the onset of hypothermia? :confused:
Lightings Mikhel.... er... a yellowish mushroom/fungus/lichen kind of thiny?Quote:
Originally Posted by Taliesin
grrr I asked my Estonian friend Helje about "Long-eye" and she came up with a solution, but there seems to have been a misunderstanding if my guess was close...
RJ yep, "dachshund eyes" is a begging, faithful, don't-hit-me kind of expression :)
nope :p
and Sleepy, you may call me Piglet. :D
and Pen, you have my favorite avy again. :D
Since mine come from days gone by, before I was born, much less many of you, I will just tell you what my two mean:
Cheaters in old slang meant a pair of glasses :nod:
to do a Barney Oldfield was to drive a car as fast as it would go. Barney was a race car driver of some acclaim. :nod:
Here's one for the French speakers:
L'espirt de les escalier. The literal translation is not the meaning. So what is? ;)
Well, what is the literal translation?
L'esprit de l'escalier: to never have a ready answer, or to think of a witty comeback too late, like after a leaving a party (hence, 'staircase wit')
Reminds me of a particular Seinfeld episode where George keeps thinking of a comeback to answer one of his office colleagues with! :D
like Yiddish trepverter (sp?)
we've got "stair-case joke" (Treppenwitz) in German, but i'm not sure what it means myself....
Quite so! "Wit of the stairway" or "staircase wit" is the direct translation. The real one Cruci (you will pardon moi, if I shorten your name?), gave correctly. Interesting little phrase. Like: "If I was speeding, how come other drivers were PASSING me? THAT's what I SHOULD have told the policeman!" Too late! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by cruciverbalist
Have any of you been on a "snipe hunt"?
Nope. I have an idea I should know what that means, but I don't. :p