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like a fish needs a bicycle — If someone needs something like a Fish Needs a Bicycle, they do not need it at all, originally a feminist slogan: A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle … The small dictionary of idiomes
like a fish needs a bicycle — If someone needs something like a Fish Needs a Bicycle, they do not need it at all, originally a feminist slogan: A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. (Dorking School Dictionary) … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle — This remark is now widely attributed to the American feminist Gloria Steinem (born 1934), but seems to have originated as an anonymous graffito (see quot. 1979). 1979 N. REES Graffiti Lives OK 80 ‘A woman without a man is like a fish without a… … Proverbs new dictionary
woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle — Meaning A feminist slogan. Origin Often attributed to Gloria Steinem. Other claims for origination point to Flo (Florynce) Kennedy or to an anonymous author who painted the slogan on a wall at University of Wisconsin in 1969. Gloria Steinem had… … Meaning and origin of phrases
bicycle\ boy — A man no woman needs. Follows from a women needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. Am I dating Todd? No way, Todd s a bicycle boy … Dictionary of american slang
bicycle\ boy — A man no woman needs. Follows from a women needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. Am I dating Todd? No way, Todd s a bicycle boy … Dictionary of american slang
fish quotations — an arbitrary selection follows and also includes proverbs, rhymes, fragments of show tunes, and ditties (as Q lacks piscine entries). Some other proverbs appear in the letter files: 1 Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and… … Dictionary of ichthyology
Irina Dunn — Patricia Irene (Irina) Dunn is an Australian writer, and served in the Australian Senate between 1988 and 1990.BackgroundDunn was born in Shanghai, China [Parliamentary handbook online, [http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/TranslateWIPILink.aspx?F… … Wikipedia
Woolloomooloo, New South Wales — Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb name = Woolloomooloo city = Sydney state = nsw caption = Woolloomooloo Bay and Finger Wharf lga = City of Sydney postcode = 2011 est = pop = 3,038 area = 0.5 propval =… … Wikipedia
Gloria Steinem — Infobox Person name = Gloria Steinem caption = Gloria Steinem at news conference, Women s Action Alliance, January 12, 1972 birth date = birth date and age|1934|3|25 birth place = nowrap|Toledo, Ohio, USA spouse = David Bale (2000─2003)… … Wikipedia
