Metaphor for Naming Elephants in UK

[Marei Kiele]

  Those corpses seem to hang around in all different places. In Germany they prefer the cellar: "to have a corpse in the cellar" = eine Leiche im Keller haben. 

 We also "talk avoiding the hot porridge" = "um den heißen Brei herum reden" and we burry dogs: "that's where the dog is burried" = "da liegt der Hund begraben". 

 Only the two latter have a slightly different meaning, I think the first one is closest to the dead moose.

 This is fun!

 Marei

 
  "Artur Silva" <arturfsilva at yahoo.com> schrieb: 

Hi: I was trying to discover what could be the Portuguese expression that was equivalent but I couldn't. We don't have "dead animals" anywhere (mooses, elephants, cats - any animal I can remember). But then, I have discovered with Agneta that we also have "dead humans". We also use the expression "a corpse in the wardrobe" - "um cadáver no armário", to be clear ;-) Artur   --------

Agneta Setterwall <agneta.setterwall at telia.com> wrote:
 ...and in Sweden we sometimes have "a corpse in the wardrobe" (ett lik i garderoben), (...) Do you Yahoo!?
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