On: Ask HN: "So... What happened to the last guy?"

[chollida1]

Good advice!

I also think you managed to include every cliche and metaphor known to man in that reply:)

[jacquesm → chollida1]

That was sort of the point :)

Practicing my language skills.

[bdr → jacquesm]

Then I don't feel rude pointing out that it should be "step into", not "step in to".

[gjm11 → jacquesm]

"When all's said and done, / at the end of the day / you've got to take the bull by the horns."

(My father actually heard someone say exactly that in a meeting once.)

[jacquesm → gjm11]

Funny! In dutch it is possible to talk for 20 minutes in proverbs/sayings, make perfect sense and not repeat a single one.

They're also all untranslatable.

For instance:

He must have been hit by a windmill.

Or:

He has been pulled out of the clay.

In English they make no sense at all.

[pg → jacquesm]

http://enlavalla.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/brueghel_prover...

[revorad → pg]

Ah so that's what the Fleet Foxes album cover is - http://www.mtv.co.uk/files//library/images/album_covers_2008...

Sorry, off topic.

[jacquesm → pg]

Amazing how many of them have made it in to modern Dutch / Flemish.