‘Don’t blame the mirror for your ugly face’: why foreign idioms rule

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‘Don’t blame the mirror for your ugly face’: why foreign idioms rule
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Human brains make the same observations across place, time and culture. I collect these phrases as others do stamps

There’s a group of professionals that I have a particular respect for: translators. Those who work to bring us the speeches and press-conference utterances of foreign leaders ; and literary translators responsible for gifting me Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead, the brilliant Polish Nobel prize-winner by Olga Tokarczuk , or the poetry of Anna Akhmatova.

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