to be as harmless as a dove
- Fuente de la expresión
- Página web www.englishdaily626.com
- 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