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Finnish ones (some sayings here too):

• "Ski into a spruce!" -> Get lost!
• "So the forest answers as one calls into it" -> what comes around goes around
• "If you reach for the spruce you'll fall into the juniper" -> don't bite more than you can chew
• "to be like hit on the head with a piece of wood" -> to be baffled
• "it went into the forest" -> something failed
• "to have own cow in the ditch" -> to have their own hidden agenda behind a request or actions
• "to throw the spoon into the corner" -> to die

Having pigs in the forest - to be hiding something.

The tax man would go from farm to farm back in the old days and count the number of pigs. The farmers would be taxed accordingly. Naturally, when you heard the tax man was coming, you'd send some pigs into the forest so that you'd be taxed less. Norwegian. :)

Something can go "like chopped shit" - smoothly, I guess.

Thinking suitcase (being a gutter mind).

Painting Satan on the wall (making mountains out of mole hills).

X on the ceiling (well done/good for you) - no idea, don't ask.

Whittling splinters (splitting hairs) I guess is fairly obvious.

One can also be "snowed down" (an idiot), an onion sausage (idiot), way out in the field (clueless, lost, idiot).

Something is "completely Texas" when it's chaotic, uncontrolled, unregulated or just generally nuts.

A Northerner might describe something that only barely worked/made it on time as "by [one] cunt hair".