My third entry here During my learning of English idioms I have run into interesting thing: there are a lot of idioms in English that are very similar to appropriate ones in my mother tongue - Russian. Such idioms as "to kill two birds with one stone", "to have eyes in the back of one's head" or "to be close to one's heart", if we translate them into Russian, have very similar or even the same meaning and express the same thoughts. I propose that these cases show us interesting links or even relationship among different languages, such links or maybe even repeating things, the same features, can also exist in other areas of our life, not even in languages but in our habits, reactions on different events, etc. I would venture to suggest that such similarities among our basic life templates or patterns could be based on our common origin. Maybe my examples are not strong enough for speaking about common patterns and other deep things, they may be merely linked by mutual translating over centuries and interconnection, but I assume that some things could arise independently... Interesting question. I would be glad, if you wrote corrections or/and express your opinion on this question. Thanks for your attention.