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I saw the hashtag #ni-pigeons-ni-espions. What does 'pigeons' mean in English (beyond 'pigeons')?

• linschn 12y ago
  Sucker ? One who is being conned.
  • foobarge 12y ago
    Sucker's better: Neither suckers nor spies.
• foobarge 12y ago
  Pigeons get plucked. The sentence roughly translates into "Neither fools nor spies.".
• maz-dev 12y ago
  It means "sucker" or "dupe".
• b4stien 12y ago
  In this context it means "a naive person or a dupe willing to accept everything".
• mercurial 12y ago
  A pigeon is a naive person being conned. It probably refers to the "pigeons" movement of French entrepreneurs opposed to taxes on sales of companies.
  • rakoo 12y ago
    "pigeon" is widely used, and the movement of entrepreneurs used this word specifically because of its already-existing meaning.