2006-12-22 12:28:21 · 13 answers · asked by Touting Rain 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Is your friend a shrimp? I'd like to take your question seriously but I smell something fishy.
2006-12-22 12:32:29 · answer #1 · answered by Holly R 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like he is mixing metaphors - whether accidentally, or on purpose, I can't say. A "pawn" is a minor piece on a chessboard; a "prawn" is a small sea creature eaten as food. Either way, he's talking about being a minor player in life.
2006-12-22 12:33:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not prawn. Pawn. Like in chess. It's the least important playing piece.
2006-12-22 12:31:00 · answer #3 · answered by liddabet 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He might just said "PAWN" but you are eating too much seafood so you are just interested in the word "PRAWN"
2006-12-22 12:33:13 · answer #4 · answered by richard c 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think he's just modified the saying a "pawn in the game of life" which is I believe relating life to the game of chesss. Where one pawn is just one of many others and isn't hugely powerful. So a I think he's just playing on words since you eat alot of seafood.
Thats just what I think
2006-12-22 12:32:48 · answer #5 · answered by Zenna T 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LMAO.
I think its a clever play on words. Is the saying a "pawn" in the game of life?
It's basic meaning is that the world is big and some of us are small in the grand scheme of things.
2006-12-22 12:31:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think he might have meant, pawn, which refers to the least powerful and most expendable game piece on a chessboard.
2006-12-23 01:34:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that he's just a little shrimp in a huge world, he doesn't play chess and he's a very clever guy!
2006-12-22 12:43:57 · answer #8 · answered by pat z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was a play on words..."a pawn in the game of life" is an allusion to Chess...he was making a joke.
2006-12-22 12:30:13 · answer #9 · answered by Moops 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He means "pawn," not "prawn."
2006-12-22 12:31:29 · answer #10 · answered by EQ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋