Москва’s commentary to the previous post:
“…and I guess you know what happened after they tied the angler’s wrists together, so that he couldn’t exaggerate anymore?”
Studiolum: “I guess he kept showing: «this long was just the smallest fin of it»
Москва: “Close enough… hands are shaped as if they are hugging a ball – «with the eyes THAT big». It’s a fairly popular Russian idiom about wild exaggeration, «с вооот такими глазами!»
A cursory image search didn’t turn up any good illustrations, but I spotted one curious addition to your visual series here:”
Studiolum: “I guess he kept showing: «this long was just the smallest fin of it»
Москва: “Close enough… hands are shaped as if they are hugging a ball – «with the eyes THAT big». It’s a fairly popular Russian idiom about wild exaggeration, «с вооот такими глазами!»
A cursory image search didn’t turn up any good illustrations, but I spotted one curious addition to your visual series here:”
That the expression has become a meme indeed is shown, besides several thousand search hits, also by images such as this one:
“Such a HUUUGE fish! With such HUUUGE eyes!”
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