Hi, Ardith Hinton!   
   I read your message from  11.01.2016 16:56   
   about WishList.   
      
    AH> Okay...  but first,  a bit of personal history.  Years  ago  I  ran   
    AH> across a hastily scribbled note  I  had  written  to  myself  in  a   
    AH> certain high school  French  class.  In  this  class  I  found  the   
    AH> teacher's offhand remarks the most interesting part of  the  lesson   
    AH> sometimes.  My note was a translation of an expression  we  use  in   
    AH> English...  "put that in your pipe & smoke it",  a rather cheeky or   
    AH> jocular way of  saying  "think  about  it".  Literally  the  French   
    AH> say "put that in your pocket & your  moustache  also".  Either  way   
    AH> it's a metaphor,  an idiomatic expression which can't  meaningfully   
    AH> be translated word for word into another language.   
      
   Smoking when thinking is a very common thing around the world,  and IMHO   
   everyone understands the idiom "put that  in  your  pipe  &  smoke  it".   
   But "put that in your  pocket  &  your  moustache  also"  is  a  totally   
   incomprehensible thing. Although every idiom must have origin.   
      
   Bye, Ardith!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   ENGLISH_TUTOR 2016   
      
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