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[afandian]

I saw the hashtag #ni-pigeons-ni-espions. What does 'pigeons' mean in English (beyond 'pigeons')?

[foobarge → afandian]

Pigeons get plucked. The sentence roughly translates into "Neither fools nor spies.".

[b4stien → afandian]

In this context it means "a naive person or a dupe willing to accept everything".

[mercurial → afandian]

A pigeon is a naive person being conned. It probably refers to the "pigeons" movement of French entrepreneurs opposed to taxes on sales of companies.

[rakoo → mercurial]

"pigeon" is widely used, and the movement of entrepreneurs used this word specifically because of its already-existing meaning.

[maz-dev → afandian]

It means "sucker" or "dupe".

[linschn → afandian]

Sucker ? One who is being conned.

[foobarge → linschn]

Sucker's better: Neither suckers nor spies.