[PW] A Chinese-to-English question elephant nose

[Adrian Smith]

The elephant's "trunk"? 

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[mailto:project-wombat-fm-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On Behalf Of
Peter Zilahy Ingerman, PhD
Sent: 12 July 2008 22:06
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Subject: [PW] A Chinese-to-English question

This is for me ... and a correspondent of mine who is from Taiwan, but
at the moment in France.

She and her husband visited Normandy this weekend, and she describes the
seacoast as "we visit the sea shore~~In chinese, we call it "elephant
nose shore" (the huge rocks in the sea shore are like elephant nose in
shape). i don't know how to explain it more clear.... Do you have any
idea about what i mentioned?".

Well, the image is clear enough ... but is there an English phrase for
this?

Peter Ingerman

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