Kill, overcome, win


Cliuch the right fist and thrust it obliquely downward. Look as if you meant it.



In-go-nom-pa-shi [Lewis Francis Hadley], Indian Sign Talk (Chicago: Baker & Co., 1893).



Beat with a club.
Often used as a metaphor. Example, “our team killed them.” Destroy all opposition.
To win over a girl is to kill her.

The Indian thinks of things in terms of pictures. He sees an image, or a similarity of what he wants to say and then he talks about the image rather than the reality.

For this reason his speeches are full of metaphors and comparisons. "My heart is a frightened frog in the depths of a mud hole," he says when he is cornered un-prepared.




 

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