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A French proverb is « Il n’y a pas de fumée sans feu », means there is no smoke without fire. I use it a lot in my day work when I try not to watch a suspicious
by jicea 4y ago
A French proverb is « Il n’y a pas de fumée sans feu », means there is no smoke without fire. I use it a lot in my day work when I try not to watch a suspicious behavior…
- bewaretheirs 4y agoThe usual form of that proverb in English is "When there's smoke, there's fire".
- aidos 4y agoIs it? Interestingly I’ve only heard it as “no smoke without fire”
- rgbrgb 4y ago“Where there’s smoke, there’s fire” is what I’ve heard (from fire heavy Southern California).
- thedrexster 4y ago"Where there's smoke, there's fire" is how I've heard that proverb
- berny222 4y agoThis is how we phrase it in Australia.
- brokenmachine 4y agoI'm Australian and have only heard, "where there's smoke, there's fire".
- arcanemachiner 4y agoI've heard both.
- protomolecule 4y agoExactly the same in Russian: "Нет дыма без огня".
- Koshkin 4y agoI guess there was something they could share during the Moscow fire in 1812.
- nszceta 4y agoSmoke is absolutely possible without a fire. Have you ever seared any meat on an electric stovetop? Overheated an empty frying pan?
- komali2 4y agoBy what means was electricity generated to be delivered to your stovetop? ;) ("solar panels!" sun is a ball of fire) ("nuclear power plant!" via what means was the steel in the brace for the control rods forged then? :D )
- me_again 4y agoSince we seem to have started a competition about who can provide the least relevant and most pedantic correction, the sun is not a ball of fire. It is a plasma heated by nuclear fusion. There is no oxygen to support combustion.
- Dylan16807 4y agoCongrats, you have now proved that everything is fire. So "no smoke" also means fire if we follow your logic. Was that your intent?
- komali2 4y agoThe point of the saying is that if there's evidence (smoke) of something normally worth paying attention to (fire), said thing is indeed present. If something is smoking on your stove, it's worth paying attention to, whether it's because you're actively searing something on an electric or because your pan is empty. My OP was the one you should come at with this tone lol, they were the ones that sidetracked off whether or not "if there's smoke, there's fire" is a useful idiom. Maybe a better question would have been, "though there's no actual fire, would not those instances of smoke still be worth noting?" Shall we start thinking of times smoke is present, and not worth anyone's attention?
- Dylan16807 4y ago
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