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Old 06-19-2005, 09:57 PM
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Originally Posted by NTB
We know that one will never see a monkey in a bush. The above idiom stands for no way or no hope.
Ok, I thought of it that way, but then where does Monkey live? Isn't it na ohia?
Does Igbo language have different translations for "Bush" and "Forest"?
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