To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
"Paper tiger is a literal English translation of the Chinese phrase zhǐlǎohǔ (simplified Chinese: 纸老虎; traditional Chinese: 紙老虎), meaning something that seems as threatening as a tiger, but does not withstand challenge." ...... The phrase also appears in Bill Waterson's comic strip Calvin and Hobbes,[6] in which Calvin inquires of Hobbes what the meaning of the phrase is. Hobbes responds that a "paper tiger" is like a "paper boy", that is, a tiger that delivers newspapers. -Wiki
You are quite obviously arguing with an unarmed participant!
66 posted on
11/18/2013 5:01:44 PM PST by
WVKayaker
("Because nothing says "rugged individualism" like heavy-handed big government.../sarc" -Sarah Palin)
To: WVKayaker
...meaning something that seems as threatening as a tiger, but does not withstand challenge." Oh, the challenge is there, but my ego does not require me to spoon feed him an understanding of his problem.
Suffice to say the whole "big rock, little stone" nonsense comes from a desire to validate an unbiblical doctrine combined with an ignorance of Greek grammar.
70 posted on
11/18/2013 5:39:44 PM PST by
papertyger
("refusing to draw an inescapable conclusion does not qualify as a 'difference of opinion.'")
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