To understand the Vogons, you'll have to have a babble fish in your ear. (For those who think this should be spelled babelfish or babel fish or BabelFish or Babel Fish - guti. Douglas Adams (who died May 11, 2001) would probably have appreciated the whimsy of randomly using alternative spellings.)
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babble\ fish — A fish that translates any spoken language into a language that the person possessing the fish can understand. To understand the Vogons, you ll have to have a babble fish in your ear. (For those who think this should be spelled babelfish or babel … Dictionary of american slang
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ear, human — ▪ anatomy Introduction organ of hearing and equilibrium that detects and analyzes noises by transduction (or the conversion of sound waves into electrochemical impulses) and maintains the sense of balance (equilibrium). The human ear, like … Universalium
gel-1 — gel 1 English meaning: “to curl; round, *gland, growth, ball, fathom, arm” Deutsche Übersetzung: “ballen, sich ballen; Gerundetes, Kugeliges” etc Material: evidence for the unadjusted root form are seldom and partly very doubtful … Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary
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