16 Delightful Sayings We Need to Bring Back
These expressions let you do everything from give advice to describe your feelings, with charm and originality. So, the next time you get "folded into fours," (slide 7) you'll know how to explain it.
By Liesl Schillinger
Designer: Jen Troyer
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Sometimes, children say or do things that show them to be wiser than their elders. Russian parents have a grudging way of describing this phenomenon: "The eggs shouldn't teach the hen!" (Яйца курицу не учат!) But Tolstoy, more generous-mindedly, flipped the phrase in
War and Peace. When young Natasha Rostov told her flurried parents they ought to make room in their wagons for wounded soldiers as the family fled Moscow, her father was moved by her noble impulse, and said humbly, "The eggs are teaching the hen." ( Яйца курицу учат.) Tolstoy knew that insight is not necessarily tied to age.
Published 03/05/2015
