Timeline for Are there figurative English proverbs (or idioms) to mean an expert (or likely winner) makes a great mistake?
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| Sep 19, 2015 at 0:51 | vote | accept | Yoichi Oishi | ||
| Sep 19, 2015 at 0:49 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi | I find the explanation of “Even Homer nods” by ‘the hindu com’ is close to the case of Serena William’s loss of the game and Japanese proverb, “Even Kobo makes mistakes of stroke sometimes in his calligraphy." It says ”What the idiom means is ‘nobody is perfect’: even someone as great as Homer ended up making mistakes in his two epics.the Greek poet who wrote two great epics: the Iliad and the Odyssey. The word ‘nod’ in this context means to ‘fall asleep’. What happens when you are at work and feel drowsy? As you are unable to think clearly, you begin to make numerous mistakes.” | |
| Sep 15, 2015 at 2:56 | comment | added | Kim | it's a perfect idiom but I don't think it's very well known. | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 23:01 | history | answered | Tim Lymington | CC BY-SA 3.0 |