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Re: How to round?
From: Brad Morris
Date: 2019 Jun 13, 19:27 -0400
From: Brad Morris
Date: 2019 Jun 13, 19:27 -0400
Tony
"Don't hang noodles on my ears" means stop telling me nonsense, exactly as you have it. "I'm not hanging noodles on your ears", as the book has it, means I am not telling you nonsense. That is somehow a convoluted translation and not the way I have normally seen it. It is almost in the correct form, yet not at the same time.
It was just a simple way to let Robert see the phrase along with a technically correct, albeit slightly twisted, definition.
B
On Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 6:34 PM Tony Oz <NoReply_TonyOz@fer3.com> wrote:
Brad, I did not read this book but its annotation suggests that the author has got the phrase the other way around.
The canonic form ("don't hang your noodles on my ears!") is used to say "stop telling me lies/nonsence!", not to convince a listener in one's honesty. Also it may be used by a third person to warn a listener of apparent nonsence: "she is hanging noodles on your ears".
Regards,
Tony60°N 30°E
