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2007-05-01 01:17:01 · 7 answers · asked by Ismaily Rules 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
It comes from a famous poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson. You can read it on this site and understand what lotus eating is all about! http://textetc.com/workshop/wr-tennyson-1.html
For idioms generally, here are some sites: http://www.phrases.org.uk/
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/index.html
http://www.usingenglish.com/links/Idiomatic_Expressions/
2007-05-01 02:36:30 · answer #1 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard the term "like ducks in a thunderstorm" first in the 1978 movie "Force Ten From Navarone" about WW2 spies and saboteurs with Harrison Ford, Robert Shaw, Carl Weathers, Edward Fox, Barbara Bach and others. At one point in the film, Ford and his saboteurs are at a rail station and plans have gone wrong with the threat of being exposed and shot by the Nazis. Edward Fox's character says "well we just can't stand around like ducks in thunder". The term simply refers that ducks are not afraid of thunder & lightning, they don't go running for cover and are non-chalant and passive while it is pouring rain and lightning.
2016-05-17 23:11:12 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it can mean more than one thing
1. actual ingestion of the lotus flower, either the petals and/or seeds, the fragrance, or the colors
2.observation of the chakras that look like lotuses
3.various references to sexual activities
4.if you absorb the lotuses others are trying to raise/grow accidentally or intentionally ..and make them mad!
5.not observing the Sabbath! (7th day-7th chakra)
6.feeling a spiritual type of love possibly
7.looking at lotuses without any connotation that any damage will happen to the lotuses
8.recognizing one's state of spiritual humbleness
2007-05-01 01:49:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lotus Eating
2017-03-02 06:55:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
in literature, it means people who forget, either by using drugs or just ennui and a wish to dissassociate themselves from the real world.
2007-05-01 01:21:08 · answer #5 · answered by Puddin Tane 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
here's any possible information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_eaters
as to words etymology look at this site
http://www.etymonline.com/
2007-05-01 01:37:03 · answer #6 · answered by martox45 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
www.urbandictionary.com will give you new terms in use
2007-05-01 04:27:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋