What are some (non-English) idioms, and what do they mean (both literally and in context)? Odd ones, your favorite ones - any and all are welcome. :)
For example, in English I might call someone a “good egg,” meaning they’re a nice person. Or, if it’s raining heavily, I might say “it’s raining cats and dogs.”
I love the Norwegian “helt Texas” or “completely Texas”, which means something’s totally crazy. Probably a reference to Westerns.
I feel like it’s accurate to say Texas is completely Texas.
A classic! I don’t know how I forgot to mention that one, I even coincidentally explained it to someone earlier today!
We also have:
“Ta ein spansk ein”
“Take a spanish one”
Doing a half-assed solution
Cubans have the antonym to that:
Aserlo como los blancos “Do it like white people”
Do it properly 😜
Almost forgot “jalla” or “jallamekk”, originally adopted by Norwegian military from a middle eastern word for “fast”, meaning a quick and dirty, but not particularly high quality, solution.
Or, y’know, Texas.