/c/café daily chat thread for 2 August 2023 (self.cafe)

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[-] ruk_n_rul -1 points 1 year ago

What's the English version of "dapat betis nak peha?" 🤔

[-] munkkey 3 points 1 year ago

Give them an inch and they will take a yard/mile? Quite wordy I know.

[-] ruk_n_rul 0 points 1 year ago

I looked it up and the strangest result appears: camel's nose.

Apparently it's a Victorian era, and Victorian made, idiom about an Arabian idiom of letting just the camel's nose in the tent, which eventually results in the entire camel being under it.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 2 points 1 year ago

Give an inch take a foot?

[-] munkkey 1 points 1 year ago

I also first thought of that Chinese proverb, which is literally "get an inch, advance to a foot".

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, dunno which based on which, both is being used widely

[-] truckdrifter2 1 points 1 year ago

Literal? Get calf, want thigh

Figurative? Hmm... maybe 'Wants a ton for an ounce?'

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