Hahaha...I don't know. Perhaps I will try to find out if there is such an idiom; I believe the traditional Chinese sense of honor is no less strong (though it'd have to be /somewhat/ less foolish) than the Spanish.
>not saying this to someone arrogant enough to speak English would have been culturally inappropriate Your negatives confuse me. What? (I'm going to assume the first "not" shouldn't be there.)
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Date: 2006-08-13 01:26 am (UTC)>not saying this to someone arrogant enough to speak English would have been culturally inappropriate
Your negatives confuse me. What? (I'm going to assume the first "not" shouldn't be there.)