Define it
By milo041
@milo041 (10)
China
November 29, 2007 2:43am CST
I picked up a sentence "even a blind pig may find an acorn" in TV series Cane 110 yesterday, i thought it was for people who are very lucky, like we chinese always make fun of them "a blind cat happen to find a dead rat", but it turned out to be not after i consulted the dictionary.
also, there is a similar one in chinese called The Old Man and The Mountain, the old man gathered his family together to remove a mountain in their way, surely, they were considered stupid, "in my generation it's impossible to make it, but my offspring will". That's how the saying comes out.
however, it's all bulls**t among young people, they don't give a thought about it.:(
1 response
@zorzon (71)
• Brazil
2 Feb 08
Does the pig's expression means something like: "Don't let lookings deceive you"?
I am not from USA and don't know local expressions.
Here, in Brazil, we have something like: "One pretends to be a lil pig just to be able to be milked laid down".
It is usually used to people who seems to be stupid but, in fact, they are even smarter than one could imagine.
Maybe they are similar in one way or another...
