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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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Full of birds
Hello,
In the book "Parrot and Olivier in America" by Peter Carey, one of the main characters talks about his father in the following way:
"My father was a good man. He was funny and kind and full of birds as we used to say. He was my home. I thought the paths I walked with him would be my life. The birds and trees and weather of a particular place. I have never deliberately quit on anyone."
What does the expression "full of birds" mean here? Does it mean that Parrot's father loved birds? That he was thinking about them a lot? Or could there be another meaning behind it? (Perhaps an idiom which would seem strange to me.)
Thanks for your help.
In the book "Parrot and Olivier in America" by Peter Carey, one of the main characters talks about his father in the following way:
"My father was a good man. He was funny and kind and full of birds as we used to say. He was my home. I thought the paths I walked with him would be my life. The birds and trees and weather of a particular place. I have never deliberately quit on anyone."
What does the expression "full of birds" mean here? Does it mean that Parrot's father loved birds? That he was thinking about them a lot? Or could there be another meaning behind it? (Perhaps an idiom which would seem strange to me.)
Thanks for your help.
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Unless it is an idiom that I don't know and can't find, 'full of birds' just means, as you say, loving birds, always talking about and thinking about birds.
- Unless it is an idiom that I don't know and can't find, 'full of birds' just means, as you say, loving birds, always talking about and thinking about birds.
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Unless it is an idiom that I don't know and can't find, 'full of birds' just means, as you say, loving birds, always talking about and thinking about birds.
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No. Surely that's exactly what it doesn't mean, given the phrase is metaphoric, not directly anyway. The closest match seems to be a Spanish expression 'Tienes la cabeza llena de pájaros' - meaning scatter brained or something like it, related to the English expression 'bird-brained' as an image of mental processes. One might conjecture it means kind of mad in a nice way, full
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