Interesting, where are you from? Where does this proverb come from?
replyI know this proverb as (translating from Polish): You're asking the boar if he's shitting in the forest.
It's an extremely common phrase in the US, along with "Is the Pope Catholic?" Sometimes the two phrases are humorously mixed together.
replyI've never heard it mixed (not from US)...
reply"Is bear a Catholic?" doesn't seem very funny.
But a notion that everyone knows how Pope is regularly shitting in the woods absolutely is :)
We say "are bears Catholic?" when in more polite company and we can't get away with asking if the Pope shits in the woods :)
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