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 #2 (permalink) Wed May 17, 2006 10:44 am Too many times by one |
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Your expression too many times by one (with which I am not familiar) amounts to saying one time/once too often or that things have gone too far.
A more usual idiom is: one time too many. It also indicates that someone has gone over the limit or that something has happened too often:
We've messed with our planet one time too many, and now she's out for revenge. |
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Conchita
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| #3 (permalink) Wed May 17, 2006 23:23 pm Too many times by one |
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| I prefer to say what Popeye does: "I've had enough! And enough is too much!" |
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| #4 (permalink) Wed May 17, 2006 23:33 pm Too many times by one |
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We call it "the lost drop in the glass"
Describing, isn't it?
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| #5 (permalink) Thu May 18, 2006 2:35 am Idiom: "Too many times by one" |
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| In English it's called "the straw that broke the camel's back". |
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Jamie (K)
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| #6 (permalink) Thu May 18, 2006 8:12 am Idiom: "Too many times by one" |
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Hi!
In Germany one would say: That is the drop that makes the mineral spring welling over!
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| #7 (permalink) Thu May 18, 2006 9:36 am Too many times by one |
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| spencer wrote: |
We call it "the lost drop in the glass"
Describing, isn't it?
Spencer |
Similar expressions are used:
- in French: This is the last drop that spills the vase
- and in Spanish: This is the drop that fills/spills the glass.
Spencer, imagine trying to find a lost drop in a full glass!! :) Unless it's a drop of oil in a glass of water, perhaps. :wink: |
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| #8 (permalink) Thu May 18, 2006 23:42 pm Idiom: "Too many times by one" |
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Hi Conchita,
It's easy to find the lost drop.
It's on the top of them. :)
You might remember that old movie, The Gods went crazy, or something like that.
A Bushman hunter was turning the whole desert upside down for that one vegetable, grabbed it, ripped it out,
worked on it with his special tools for a while, and finally drunk up a whole drop of water,that last him for the time he's got so lucky again.
I think he has a totally different phrase for describe the same situation we were talking about.
More likely uses Jamies' with the camel.
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| #9 (permalink) Fri May 19, 2006 11:58 am Idiom: "Too many times by one" |
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| spencer wrote: |
| You might remember that old movie, The Gods went crazy, or something like that. |
This movie is called "The Gods Must Be Crazy". |
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| Singular OR plural: Success or good fortune seem to follow | Proverb: When Giants Cast Shadows, Hope For The Shade |
