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Guest Posted 23 years ago
Grammar

Bird on a wire

What does the colloquialism "bird on a wire" mean?
  

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I'm really only guessing, but maybe a bird on a wire has a good view of a situation.

— Mike in Japan

  • I'm really only guessing, but maybe a bird on a wire has a good view of a situation.
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I'm really only guessing, but maybe a bird on a wire has a good view of a situation.
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That's a movie with Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn Emotion: smile
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0 I think it has something do to with a relationships. Implies that you are as close as birds on a wire. 0-
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0It's from a song by Leonard Cohen --02br
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00It's not an expression that people commonly use -- at least I've never heard it, except in the song or referring to an actual bird on an actua
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