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วัวสันหลังขาด

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Anyone know what this means?

วัวสันหลังขาด เห็นนกกาบินผาดก็ตกใจ

The spineless cow flinches as the crow flies by?

My dictionary says "Conscience makes cowards of us all."

but I have no idea what that means, and it doesn't seem to correspond to the Thai phrase.

My guess would be something closer to: "A coward dies a thousand deaths"

I don't see anything there that would involve "conscience"

Here's an explanation from a Thai website:

วัวสันหลังขาด : สำนวนนี้ ยังมีต่อสร้อยด้วยว่า " วัวสันหลังขาด เห็นกาบินผาดก็ตกใจ " มีความหมายถึงคนที่มีอะไรพิรุธหรือมีการกระทำไปแล้ว ในทำนองไม่สู่ดี มักมีอาการคอยหวาดระแวงอยู่เสมอ กลัวว่าจะมีคนรู้เห็นหรือมารื้อฟื้นกล่าวโทษขึ้น สำนวนนี้บางทีก็พูดว่า " วัวสันหลังหวะ " ซึ่งแปลตามสำนวนก็ว่า วัวสันหลังเป็นแผลหวะ หรือมีบาดแผลที่หลัง กาจะบินมาจิกแผลตนเอง.

I think it's more about having a guilty conscience and acting suspiciously and apprehensively as a result, due to fear of being discovered.

A bit like the cow in the metaphor being afraid of the passing crow seeing the wound on it's back and pecking at it.

http://www.siamtower...upasit/p23.html

Edited by soundman

"A guilty conscience needs no accuser." - English Proverb

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