Timeline for Idiom: Unknown, hidden problems
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| Feb 27, 2016 at 7:01 | history | protected | user140086 | ||
| Feb 26, 2016 at 19:52 | answer | added | Kevin Workman | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 14:52 | answer | added | Dovetailed | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 14:30 | vote | accept | CSJ | ||
| Feb 26, 2016 at 10:26 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/703164309996597248 | ||
| Feb 26, 2016 at 6:52 | comment | added | NVZ♦ | "It's a trap!" | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 6:13 | answer | added | BiscuitBoy | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 6:04 | comment | added | A.S. | In Russian the idiom is "подводные камни" which literally means "underwater stones". | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 1:04 | comment | added | Rob_Ster | Sounds like what I've heard described as "undocumented features." | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 23:49 | answer | added | delliottg | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 23:39 | answer | added | Theraot | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 23:39 | answer | added | Dan | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 23:14 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Sure sounds like a plain old "reef" to me -- a sort of wall of, typically, coral, surrounding an island or adjacent to a larger land mass. ("Shoal" has a similar meaning and would likely be more familiar to Brits or US folks "Down East".) A hazard to navigation in great part because it's hard to see until you're pretty much on top of it. Not an idiom in US business-speak that I know of, but not hard to understand. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 22:48 | answer | added | alephzero | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 22:44 | answer | added | user162392 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 22:37 | comment | added | bib | @Dan *shoals sounds like the closest English equivalent. You should post as an answer. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 22:05 | comment | added | Dan | 'Hidden reefs and shoals' is how I know it. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 21:32 | answer | added | Elian | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 21:27 | answer | added | MonkeyZeus | timeline score: -1 | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 21:12 | answer | added | Phil Sweet | timeline score: -1 | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 21:07 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | What @Henry said. I must admit I thought I'd find more than one instance of What hidden reefs lie (in his course) in Google Books. I'd almost be tempted to describe this figurative usage as a cliche, but apparently it's not that common. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 20:58 | answer | added | Kristina Lopez | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 20:46 | answer | added | JeffSahol | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 20:14 | answer | added | Papa Poule | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 20:08 | answer | added | dennisdeems | timeline score: 27 | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 20:03 | history | edited | NVZ♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 25, 2016 at 20:02 | answer | added | AmI | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 19:56 | comment | added | Henry | Making it hidden reefs could clarify the metaphor in English, approaching an island but not knowing whether a submerged coral reef would wreck the ship | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 19:42 | history | asked | CSJ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |