That effect is due simply to the novelty to us of their expressions.

To talk of a pass as an "up-down" has a refreshing turn to our unused ear, but it is a much more descriptive than imaginative figure of speech.

Nor is the phrase "the being (so) is difficult," in place of "thank you," a surprisingly beautiful bit of imagery, delightful as it sounds for a change.

Our own tongue has, in its daily vocabulary, far more suggestive expressions, only familiarity has rendered us callous to their use.

We employ at every instant words which, could we but stop to think of them, would strike us as poetic in the ideas they call up.