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What weird idioms/phrases does your language have? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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In Finnish we have "kissanristiäiset" (literally means a cat's christening), which means some trivial and meaningless celebration/event.

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[–] Snowman44@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm not Thai, but they have an idiom that something will happen one afternoon in their next reincarnation.

[–] norgur@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

For German, there is a really cool series of YouTube Shorts starting with this one:

https://youtube.com/shorts/Cod-d9hh55c?si=f481mc2DC0uYQTEt

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

"public static void main string args", which translates to "i am going to start speaking now"

[–] rockyTron@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Not mine but I had a Dutch professor who would say "it's like washing duck's feet" to refer to something that was a pointless exercise or wasted effort. I always thought it was funny but can't find anything on the Internet about it now so perhaps it's not very common.

[–] Alami@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Idioms is basically how French was built https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:French_idioms

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

english:

"daddy" is some older man you're sexually attracted to

also, "daddy" is your biological father

[–] LrdThndr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a big difference between "Bless me father for I have sinned" and "I'm sorry daddy, I've been a bad girl".

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