So anyway, the guy says "you don't want to upset the whole duck and bird pond!"
Now, hang on there. I'm reasonably sure that's not a real idiomatic expression. "Upset the duck and bird pond"? Ducks are birds. But that's not even the point though, that minor redundancy is the least of our worries, here! Nobody says "upset the whole duck and bird pond." It doesn't mean anything. How do you upset a pond? Tip it over? Or just...say something really mean to it, in pond-language?
From context, I could tell he meant that we didn't want to upset the whole apple-cart, or do whatever you do to a whole shooting-works to render it inoperable. But that's a far cry from any kind of duck and bird pond. Can anyone think of what he might have meant to say, here? Is there some saying that's close, that I'm missing? I feel like there is! It's driving me crazy.
I would have asked him myself, but, you know. Negotiations were a bit touchy. I didn't want to upset the whole duck and bird pond.
Now, hang on there. I'm reasonably sure that's not a real idiomatic expression. "Upset the duck and bird pond"? Ducks are birds. But that's not even the point though, that minor redundancy is the least of our worries, here! Nobody says "upset the whole duck and bird pond." It doesn't mean anything. How do you upset a pond? Tip it over? Or just...say something really mean to it, in pond-language?
From context, I could tell he meant that we didn't want to upset the whole apple-cart, or do whatever you do to a whole shooting-works to render it inoperable. But that's a far cry from any kind of duck and bird pond. Can anyone think of what he might have meant to say, here? Is there some saying that's close, that I'm missing? I feel like there is! It's driving me crazy.
I would have asked him myself, but, you know. Negotiations were a bit touchy. I didn't want to upset the whole duck and bird pond.
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eh brah, no make, pancake.
translated it means:
Please don't be like that and upset everything you flat round breakfast treat.
@limom - I would have real trouble over there because I would be like, "Wha--? YES make pancake!"