Fuente de la expresión
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Estructura completa
To be someone as harmless as a dove
Variantes
To be as harmless as a [dove or babe]
Contexto
Adah, similar to Nnu Ego, goes through marital and childbearing travails; unlike Nnu Ego, she is from her youth determined to be “as cunning as a serpent but as harmless as a dove” in order to realize her dream of going to England.
Fuente del contexto
Google books
Tipo de fuente
book
Autor
John Charles Hawley
Título de la fuente
Writing the Nation: Self and Country in the Post-colonial Imagination
Año
1996
Web
https://acortar.link/sKVYYy
Idioma
English
Nivel de uso
Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
Marca dialectal
General
Frecuencia
Raro