Talk:με πήρε το ποτάμι

sarri.greek. 2017.10.18. με/σε/τον/την/τους πήρε το ποτάμι. MEANINGS:
0. LITERAL: the river took me/you/him...
1. GENERAL: I/you/he drowned. Quotation: Καί ὅταν λέγουν περί τίνος «τόν ἐπῆρε τό ποτάμι», ἐννοοῦν ὅτι ἐπνίγη εἰς αὐτόν τοῦτον τόν χείμαρρον. From the novel Το αμάρτημα της μητρός μου by Georgios Vizyinos (Γεώργιος Βιζυηνός) lang:gre.kathareuousa. trans.eng: And when they say of someone «the river took him», they mean that he drowned in this very ΧΕΙΜΑΡΡΟΣ --don't know this in eng, and there is no lemma--. link: ebooks.edu.gr 2. AS METAPHOR: I/you/he was ruined.
EXPRESSION: ας/να το πάρει το ποτάμι. (mainly about riddles) Let the answer be revealed! source: ποτάμι in Triantafyllidis Inst. Dict. See Salt? I now go to the 'requested' page and start from there. Now we need χειμαρρος. Thank you for encouraging me. Saw your pages... !!! Impressed. sarri.greek (talk) 20:08, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

@Sarri.greek: I've created χείμαρρος (cheímarros). --Barytonesis (talk) 21:02, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

from sarri: Merci Baryton! I move there for discussing the meaning. sarri.greek (talk)