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Idioms?
Posted by R. Berg on June 18, 2007
In Reply to: Idioms? posted by Probe on June 18, 2007
: 1. The drunken tongue speaks the sober mind
: 2. Wine in, truth out
: Please clarify whether the above phrases are idioms and, if negative, - what are the idioms expressing the meaning "a drunken man will reveal a hidden thought"?
I'd call them proverbs. "In vino veritas," borrowed from L@tin ("In wine there is truth"), is more familiar to English speakers than the two above. It isn't an idiom, either. Idioms don't have the job of condensing folk wisdom into a pithy saying. ~rb
