Metaphors for 'stupid' - Page 2

Perikles

June 10, 2011 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Sancho Panther (Post 112020)

¿Cómo?

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Sancho Panther

June 10, 2011 11:21 AM

¡No sé hacerlo!

Crossed again!

I'll try - but don't faint when you read it!

¡Perdón - La comida estaba en la mesa!

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poli	June 10, 2011 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Sancho Panther (Post 112016)

British proverb "Not so green, as he's cabbage-headed!".

No, I'm not 100% sure what it means, either!

Perhaps another, more sagacious brit would be so kind as to explain it to me; my parents employed often fifty-odd years ago!

Here's my interpretation. Green sometimes means naive.
Often people confuse naivety, innocence and ignorance with stupidity, but in the case of the proverb this is not so. The person is not naive; he's genuinely stupid.

Sancho Panther

June 10, 2011 12:08 PM

Yes, but never mind that - what about the rude one?

Perikles

June 10, 2011 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Sancho Panther (Post 112023)

Yes, but never mind that - what about the rude one?
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Sancho Panther

June 10, 2011 12:20 PM

Oh come on - only two grins?

aleCcowaN

June 10, 2011 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Sancho Panther (Post 112027)

Yes, but never mind that - what about the rude one?

I didn't know that ending. I knew "...que se les ocurrió crecer allí creyendo que se estaba mejor a la sombra".

Sancho Panther

June 10, 2011 01:46 PM

¡Gracias!

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