Richard came over to get Jen’s TV out of our loft. It is rather heavy.
As he strggled to carry it out he said, “That’s okay. We have a saying in Germany. Don’t look a horse in the mouth that’s a gift.”
I smirk, “We have, Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.”
“Oh! You have the same saying?”
He doesn’t understand why Jen and I giggle.
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March 11th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
This is story is going to appear that this is something I made up, but here goes. A friend in AZ had married an assyrian bloke, and he had a friend (also assyrian) who was always butchering sayings. For example..”A tiger can’t change his spots”, and “He’s barking in the wrong alley”.
But, the funniest thing of all was that his name was Nimrod. And each time the husband mentioned that Nimrod was coming over, he couldn’t understand why she’d almost pee her pants with laughter. LOL