--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > > For example, the first stage would probably be searching for > known patterns again -- in this case, idioms, phrases that > consist of several words that, when placed together in a > certain order, pretty much always mean the same thing in that > language. For example, in French "avoir la dent" does *not* > mean what it says literally ("to have a tooth"); it means "to > be hungry."
Both Google and Dictionary.com translate that to "(to) have (the) tooth".