On 14-Jan-2010, at 05:35, Tony K Lindstrom wrote:
I know I am too nice, but as we say in finnish, if you give them a
finger they want your whole hand...
ROFL!
I am going to have to remember that since over here in the US at least 'give
them a finger' has a whole other meaning!
I think the idiom in English closest to the real meaning of your Finnish is
"Give them an inch and they'll take a mile."
But I like the Finnish version MUCH more.
--
'I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are the good
people and the bad people,' said the man [Vetinari]. 'You are wrong, of course.
There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite
sides.' --Guards! Guards!
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