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 kanitaf

link 23.09.2005 10:55 
Subject: problems
citizens don't have both oars in the water

Что это вообще значит???

 F.R.Oggy

link 23.09.2005 11:07 
См. здесь:
http://www.clichesite.com/content.asp?which=tip+2712
Cliché: Doesn't have both oars in the water
Explanation: 1. A derogatory expression used to describe someone who is not very smart or who is dumb.

Здесь подробнее:
Anyway, I’m writing to you today to teach you a new phrase. Like all the phrases I’ve taught you, this one means that someone is crazy. Here is the phrase used in a sentence: Daddy doesn’t have both oars in the water.

Do you know what oars are? They are the long wooden things you row a rowboat with. If you row a rowboat with only one oar in the water, the boat will spin in circles. So when you say that someone doesn’t have both oars in the water, you are saying that the person just goes around in circles. This means that the person is crazy.

Продложение см.здесь:

http://oblivio.com/archives/03062001.html

 

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