The fish dies by the mouth
Use this sailor metaphor to call for discretion… Like what is discretion! It is that gift of reserve to keep a secret. Or not to tell something that is known and there is no need for others to know…
The saying fish reminds us that fishing success depends on your carelessness; for not noticing the danger, it opens its mouth to take the bait, and that is the real cause of his downfall…
What if! The only real difference with people is the fate after the hook is bitten: the fish may end up in a croaker a la Vasca, a grilled dorado, a roman hake filet etc.
But people invariably end up… in trouble… And yes! For example: when we use too much language and expose ourselves by giving sensitive information (our own or that of others), sooner or later we will suffer the consequences of that slip… That’s what popular wisdom is for with its proverbs: to teach-us…
This saying is complemented by another that expresses the same thing from the sidewalk across the street: one owns what is silent and a slave to what one says… It’s just like that: so much the fish, that it opens its mouth when it sees the hook to which it is hookedlike the person who opens his mouth to talk too much and makes a fool of himself, they are victims of their own stupidity…
Well, let’s say “victims of their own indiscretion”… Let’s not forget that there are words that caress, others that hurt, others that destroy… What do you have to add to this, Brenda K. Starr?
