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“I don’t work here,” said the Bear, “I’m a bear.”...”
– “The Bear That Wasn’t” By Frank Tashlin
(I feel bad that it is excuses made by people like me that give actual bears so much trouble in the work place)
Finnish Idiom: pukukummitus
Suit Ghost
A person who insists on being sharply and formally dressed, but who appears to do little, if any, actual work. Almost always used of men, but sometimes of women too.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Finnish_idioms
February 2010
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Watch
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“…And yet the reanimation of a cell or an organism is wondrously strange....”
– Brian Harvey, Victoria, B.C. (quote from New Yorker mail)
January 2010
24 posts
