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11-29-20, 04:16 AM
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Sea Lord
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I particularly like the Welsh equivalent to "it's rainimg cats and dogs":
It's raining old ladies and sticks Something about the visual of it 
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11-29-20, 05:17 AM
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Dipped Squirrel Operative
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"Doch selten hält das rote Licht
von nah, was es von fern verspricht" Favourite quote from a friend when we approached a traffic light, but it certainly means something different  "Seldom the red light close keeps the promise, it promises from far away." Most of those sayings rhyme in german, so some is wasted after translation. And there is no english word for "doch" 
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11-29-20, 06:11 AM
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Chief of the Boat
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"A few sandwiches short of a picnic"
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11-29-20, 12:34 PM
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Gefallen Engel U-666
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"Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!! |
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11-29-20, 12:40 PM
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Chief of the Boat
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"Barking up the wrong tree"
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11-29-20, 05:25 PM
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Grey Wolf
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My grandmother had a lot of funny sayings. I can't remember all of them. But one that always made me laugh was what she said when someone did something stupid:
"You ain't got the brains God gave a wooden goose!"
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11-29-20, 07:06 PM
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Silent Hunter
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"I'm drier than a pommie's bathmat".- Let's go and have a drink !
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11-30-20, 10:30 AM
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Chief of the Boat
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Beat around the bush - To be indirect, and perhaps even reluctant or tricky, in saying or doing something.
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11-30-20, 10:46 AM
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In the Brig
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You're "dumber than a bag of hammers" or "slower than steam of 'poop'. I use those one a lot when I was in the service.
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Gefallen Engel U-666
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11-29-20, 12:31 PM
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CINC Pacific Fleet
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I think the word "However" comes closes to the German word Doch. Markus End of an off topic.... |
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