Thread: Rome
View Single Post
  #3  
MetalMilitia MetalMilitia is offline
Hitler's Canoe!
MetalMilitia's Avatar
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: UK
MetalMilitia is probably a spambot
Old Sep 22nd, 2008, 10:00 AM       
Perhaps the saying has its routes in Byzantine culture. It's like how people say "call a spade a spade". You could say anything in place of spade but the saying is most probably an agricultural reference and as such it's stuck that way.
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by bigtimecow View Post
japan
Reply With Quote