Haha!
In French, the funny bone is called "petit juif" (small Jew), for some reason. I'd love to know why, if anyone has an answer let me know.
posted by Mandor at 4:32 PM
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
In French, the funny bone is called "petit juif" (small Jew), for some reason. I'd love to know why, if anyone has an answer let me know.
2 Comments:
This page has some suggestions about 'petit juif' and some interesting comments on other idioms with 'jew[ish]' in them.
dave
Interesting - of course and unfortunately, it's not really surprising there are antisemitic undertones there
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