>>>>"Robbing Peter to pay Paul" or what!?
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>>>The Serbian version of the same proverb isn't so biblical: "cut the ears to patch the butt".
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>>Ha Ha! Well... they Do have a lot of practice at it, eh :-)
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>>Do you know the expression: "to cut off your nose to spite your face"?
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>We've met... though I can't say I'd remember it when needed. But it has a completely different meaning.
Yes, to do something that's detrimental to yourself in a fit of petulance directed at another. e.g. someone sneaks a lick of an ice-cream from a kid so the kid throws it to the ground in protest.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
