Archive for the 'Words' Category

Shooting Even his Shadow

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

In Persian, there is an idiom called “Shooting Even Someone’s shadow” which means when you hate someone, you would even shoot his (or her) shadow if see it anywhere!
Example: She will even shoot his shadow if he shows up.

Intelligentsia

Monday, February 21st, 2005

The intellectual elite of a society. [Russian intelligentsiya, from Latin intelligentia, intelligence, from intelligns, intelligent-, intelligent. See intelligent.]