A couple of years ago a popular folk singer from India sent me an email complaining that there was not even a single karnataka person present in the audience of the English diggs in London to listen to his singing. I just replied in a lighthearted way saying the he was 'barking at the wrong tree', he should have approached our organisation for some publicity. But, he took my remarks as an insult and replied 'I do not bark, I sing music for my living'. That was the time when the film 'Slumdog millionaire' did not go down well with the general public in India.
Moral: If you live away from your motherland for a long time, you pick up some proverbs and metaphors which becomes second nature to you. Do not use them especially when you are in your home country or meet a person from your homeland.
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