*looks up the word petrel* It's a seagull! How do you expect a poor ignorant to understand such a word? :) But I like it - poetic. Not to mention that I like birds, of course. *nods*
It wasn't you I meant. The stormy petrel is a particular kind of bird known for flying in the middle of sea storms, and therefore it has entered the stock of English metaphors for someone, like me, whom you can often find in the middle of a storm of trouble.
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Date: 2004-09-26 04:40 am (UTC)It's a seagull! How do you expect a poor ignorant to understand such a word? :)
But I like it - poetic. Not to mention that I like birds, of course. *nods*
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Date: 2004-09-26 04:52 am (UTC)