Re: Can't see the wood for the trees

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From: agurski on BIX
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 20:13

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mark_tbu@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Mark Morgan Lloyd ") writes:

>Allowing for the fact that the expression is common in both Dutch and 
>English, I suspect it predates the USA.

>Mark Morgan Lloyd
>mark_tbu@cix.compulink.co.uk

>[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or 
>colleagues]
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Just as a point of information: the expression is also used in 
Norwegian (and probably Danish and Swedish). But Dutch and the
Scandinavian languages are very closely related.

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