간에 기별도 안간다
liver-IN news-NOTEVEN not-go-PRES
Not even news to the liver.
This isn’t that hard to translate, but I had no idea what it meant, nor, once I found what it meant with an online search, why it meant that. Allegedly, it means something like “Not enough to feed a fly.” Apparently, the idea is that if you eat too small of an amount, the liver, which participates in digestion according to traditional Eastern medicine, wouldn’t get the news. Extended metaphorically, it means just something too small to matter, i.e. “Just ripples in the ocean.”
