"Pike" phrase
Posted by Patty on January 28, 2002 at
In Reply to: "Pike" phrase posted by R. Berg on January 28, 2002
: : I saw a movie a little while back and heard a character use a phrase that went "... as a pike" (a simile, seemingly a colloquialism). I told myself at the time that I wanted to remember the phrase. But, alas, I cannot remember it!
: : Could have been "dead as a pike" ..... not sure. Anyone know it? Or other pike phrases? Thanks.
: "Freedom for the pike means death to the minnow"--from Partridge's Dictionary of Catch Phrases: American and British, from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day. That's the only phrase I found that uses "pike" in the sense of a fish.
That's not it, I'm afraid. Interesting phrase about life's relativism, though. My hubby would call it a phrase about "the ecology of life", like "his loss was our gain" etc.
- "Pike" phrase... well, almost The Fallen 01/29/02
- "Pike" phrase... well, almost The Fallen 01/29/02