Peter Decker wrote: > On 9/15/07, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> John Machin wrote: >>> On 16/09/2007 8:11 AM, James Stroud wrote: >>>> Steve Holden wrote: >>>>> I don't know why you have a bug up your ass about it, as the >>>>> Americans say. >>>> I think most Americans say "wild hare up your ass". > >> I guess I got the metaphor wrong? > > Maybe it's a Southern US thing. I've always heard "bug" used; somehow > it doesn't seem that a wild hare would fit! >
We say "wild hare" down in Texas. I think I've heard "bug" before, but I wanted an excuse to vent about the hair v. hare issue in some of these American idioms. I guess I have a <insert idiom here> about it. James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
