Fruit similes
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 11:50:04AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Mentioning yourself in this row is like comparing apples and pears
> (hope that this figure works also in English) and I'm really sad that
> you come up with this.
No, we have no difficulty in English finding similarities between apples and
pears. In English, we compare incongruous comparisons to the comparison of
apples and oranges.
P.S., the word is "expelled".
HTH,
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