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Old 11-Sep-2007, 09:12
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I like it when other languages have the same idioms or sayings.
I like it too when words in different languages depend on the same image, like Italian cavalletto (tripod) and English 'clothes-horse'.

There's also the expression '[as] regular as clockwork': "He catches the 7.45 every morning, regular as clockwork".

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In the Russian we have absolutely the same expression
In Polish as well.. :D
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It should have been - like atomic clock - its probably the best clock i've heard of- :)
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