I'm stumped about the origin of "The Sheep Has Five Legs", the title of the 1954 French farce about quintuplets. I know the title refers to the five brothers, but I want to know where it came from. I heard it may be from an old French proverb. Anyone know about it?

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I have been everywhere I know for this... a fascinating quest. I turned up ....a big fat nothing. But thanks for the experience! I will keep on to it.

According to the “Petit Larousse Illustré,” un mouton à cinq pattes (literally, “a five-legged sheep”) means “an extremely rare phenomenon, thing or person.” The Collins-Robert French-English Dictionary translates it as “a rara avis or world’s wonder.”

Thanks for putting me on to this: I’d never heard the phrase until now, though I thought I was pretty well up in French.

Thanks, Tom & ren!

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