Dear Korean,
Anyway I'm after some metaphors involving the concept of 'time' in the language. So far I've gathered:
시간에 쫓기다: 'to be chased by time'
때를 놓치다: 'to miss an opportunity'
The idea behind the sentences is that Korean views time as something to capture or be chased by, likened to an animal in a prey-predator relationship. Can you think of any other examples along the same vein?
Anyway I'm after some metaphors involving the concept of 'time' in the language. So far I've gathered:
시간에 쫓기다: 'to be chased by time'
때를 놓치다: 'to miss an opportunity'
The idea behind the sentences is that Korean views time as something to capture or be chased by, likened to an animal in a prey-predator relationship. Can you think of any other examples along the same vein?
Cana X
This is a rather interesting question. Rather than confining the answer to whatever he could think of on his own, the Korean decided to open this question up for a little bit of crowd-sourcing. Korean-speaking readers: what other time-related expressions in Korean refer to time as if it were an animal?
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