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Jan_Walter@mindlink.bc.ca writes in article <77279-810116603@mindlink.bc.ca>:
> 
> In article <agurski.809900005@BIX.com>, agurski@BIX.com (agurski on BIX)
> writes:
> >
> > 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]
> > ----------------------------------------------
> > 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.
> 
> 
> I have heard similar expressions in German and English also, but it was
> more often like "Can't see the Forest for the Trees".

The german version is : "Ich kann den Wald vor lauter Baeumen nicht sehen".
The german meaning is like : "I know it's there, but I can't see it"

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