Provençal proverb

Es ni tu, ni vous, la mita de nàni.

Women

Maritime Provençal

Es ni tu, ni vous, la mita de nàni.

Meaning

She is neither here nor there — barely half of nothing.

Note : Said of an extremely small woman of neither grace nor figure.

Theme

Women

Source : La Tour-Keyrié, Recueil de proverbes provençaux (1882), Gallica — public domain. Maritime Mistralian normalisation by Lingua Nostra.

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