mack
07-14-2005, 09:10 AM
I have trouble understanding the phrase 'BRING ON YOUR SABERTOOTHS', which I came across in a SF novel in which a hippie-like group demands that the government should send them back to the Miocene by a time machine. They demonstrate in front of White House with placards which say 'BACK TO THE MIOCENE', 'LET US LEAVE THIS LOUSY WORLD' and 'BRING ON YOUR SABERTOOTHS'. Sabertooth is an anmal supposed to have existed in Miocene.
I found the expression 'BRING ON YOUR BEARS' on Oxford English Dictionary. Does 'BRING ON YOUR SABERTOOTHS' basically mean the same thing: 'do your worst (but we won't give up the hope of going back to the Miocene)'? I am totally confused.
I found the expression 'BRING ON YOUR BEARS' on Oxford English Dictionary. Does 'BRING ON YOUR SABERTOOTHS' basically mean the same thing: 'do your worst (but we won't give up the hope of going back to the Miocene)'? I am totally confused.