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12th Wing (fighter wing): No le busques tres pies - Do not search three feet in it (in reference to the unit emblem, the cat, and the popular Spanish saying No le busques tres pies al gato [Do not search three feet to the cat], which means to not try to proof the impossible) [16] 122nd Squadron: De lo dicho, ¡nada! - About what we said ...
Translation Notes a bene placito: from one well pleased: i.e., "at will" or "at one's pleasure". This phrase, and its Italian (beneplacito) and Spanish (beneplácito) derivatives, are synonymous with the more common ad libitum (at pleasure). a capite ad calcem: from head to heel: i.e., "from top to bottom", "all the way through", or "from head ...
servant of the servants of God: A title for the Pope. sesquipedalia verba: words a foot and a half long: From Horace's Ars Poetica, "proicit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba " ("he throws down his high-flown language and his foot-and-a-half-long words"). A self-referential jab at long words and needlessly elaborate language in general.
“In ancient times, cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.” –Terry Pratchett “Meow” means “woof” in cat.” —George Carlin “If cats could talk, they wouldn’t.”
"Oda al Gato" ("Ode to the Cat") is a poem by the Chilean poet and Nobel laureate, Pablo Neruda from his book Navegaciones y regresos (Voyages and Homecomings) that was first published in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Losada in 1959. The ode that celebrates the obscure nature of cats has been translated by many scholars including Ken Krabbenhoft.
Why don't leopards play hide-and-go-seek? They're always spotted. What do cats eat for breakfast? Mice Krispies. Two kittens got into a big argument.
Probably derived from the translation of the Vulgate Bible of Genesis 14: 23. divide et impera: divide and rule / "divide and conquer" A Roman maxim adopted by Roman Dictator Julius Caesar, King Louis XI of France and the Italian political author Niccolò Machiavelli. dixi: I have spoken: A popular, eloquent expression, usually used in the end ...
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