Snake and stick and dog

Posted by Sebastian Schneider on February 23, 2001

In Reply to: Snake and stick and dog posted by ESC on February 23, 2001

: Point well taken. Your English looks good to me! What I've found interesting is how old some phrases are. So many of our modern sayings, in several languages, have a common ancestor.

I agree ... the dog-thingy seems to be common in all roman languages. My latin-teacher once told me, that this phrase's origin is roman - they used this a long time ago, and I believe that it just has been adapted by all languages that derivated from latin (german, english, spanish, italian etc.)

Cheers
Sebastian

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