Re: Newbie lisp problem: string to list of strings separated by space

On 2006-03-30 10:48:28 -0500, Pascal Bourguignon <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

Zorg: I hate warriors, too narrow-minded. I'll tell you what I do
like: a killer, a died-in-the-wood killer.
^^^^^^
should be "dyed-in-the-wool"

The idiom comes from the fact that woolen garments can be dyed before spinning, weaving or knitting or they can be dyed afterwards. Those dyed beforehand (dyed-in-the-wool) have their color since they were wool, even before they became yarn or a piece of cloth. Woolen items dyed this way had much longer lasting color.

When speaking of people by analogy, a dyed-in-the-wool x has been an x metaphorically since birth and much more strongly so than others who came to x later in life.

see: <http://www.answers.com/topic/dyed-in-the-wool> or <http://www.factoidcentral.com/phrases/D_files/D_46.html>

BTW, I love Gary Oldman as Zorg ;^)

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