![]() Kollox nirranga, sir."Ĭyrus had just kicked (metaphorically) Edgar's boss, you know where. No need li tifqaghli l-kaxxa ta' sidri please. ![]() On reading the above one would assume that the conversation was something like this:Įdgar: "Aw ras, hallih lil Cyrus il-filjozz tafx xbin ghax nigi u nifqalghek il-kaxxa ta' sidrek. He even had the temerity of phoning Police Commissioner Rizzo while he (Edgar not Rizzo) was in the company of Cyrus. The "spear" dimension together with the "Galea" aspect (which I think comes from "helmet" –please correct me if I am mistaken) would also fit the guy.Įdgar – I declare him as a longtime friend to publicly state possible interest – has been accused of trying to interfere (perhaps "obstruct" would be a better word as this spear-wielder is being accused as though he is a shady and nefarious character) police investigations about Engerer Senior and Engerer Junior. The literal meaning is "prosperity-spear" or "prosperous spearman." If prosperity is understood in non-monetary terms that it fits him well. Edgar is a common name from Old English words ead (meaning "rich, happy, prosperous") + gar (meaning "spear"). On the other side there is Edgar Galea Curmi, the head of the Secretariat of the Prime Minister. However, isn't it part of the role of a newspaper to publish what's still confidential? It is said that news is about stuff which someone somewhere does not want you to publish. I do, however, hope that no bright guy will decide to upload the mentioned photos on You Tube.Ī lot of noise was made because The Times published information about the stuff Cyrus will be accused of since, it seems, this was confidential material. I am not interested in the stuff he is being accused of. It has been interpreted as "the sun", "like sun", "young", "hero" to "humiliator of the enemy in verbal contest." A well-known blogger had described him as a "rising star" of the PN sometime before he went over to the PL. The entomology of the name continues to be a topic of discussion amongst historians, linguists, and scholars of Iranology. The two dramatis personae of this gargantuan test case about the separation of powers within a democracy are both appropriately named. ![]() Lucky I got two teacups for the price of one! It was quite fun to read about the high winds and threatening tsunamis in the tea cup while enjoying a nice cup of tea in the serene atmosphere overlooking one of our most beautiful bays. By mere coincidence I was given a complimentary front row seat for the inauguration of Malta's media silly season during which storms in tea cups are treated with the same awe and level of coverage as Hurricane Katrina. Last week I enjoyed a few days rest in hotel situated in the north of Malta. Other versions of this phrase include a tempest/storm in a glass of water and a storm in a wash-hand basin. Before then the equivalent was a storm in a creambowl, which dates from the 1670s. The expression a tempest in a teapot, meaning ‘a small event that has been exaggerated out of proportion’, dates from 1818, and is apparently the American English equivalent of the British English storm in a teacup. The French word temps (time, weather), comes from the same root, as does the Spanish word tiempo (time, weather), Italian word tempo (time, weather) and related words in other languages. The French word tempête (storm, tempest), and the English word tempest both come from the Old French tempeste (storm, tempest), from the Latin tempesta (storm, tempest), from tempestās (storm, tempest, weather, season) from tempus (time, weather), from the Proto-Indo-European *tempos (stretch). In French equivalents of the eye of the storm include l’oeil du cyclone (the eye of the cyclone), l’œil de la tempête (the eye of the storm) and le cœur de la tempête (the heart of the storm). If you are in the eye of the storm you are in the center or most intense part of a tumultuous situation, or literally in the calm region at the centre of a storm, hurricane, cyclone or typhoon.
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