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ITT: We translate idioms which don´t exist in English from our native languages into English.

"This is not really the yellow of the egg"
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lyl
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It is the end of the beans
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Fucks' spring and pussies' recurring wintry weather in spring
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>>60063636
*cocks' recurring wintry weather in spring
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If Sauna, tar or spirit doesn't cure it, it is deathly.
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country color sky aroma
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There's already a good number of awkwardly translated German idioms in American English, such as "What gives" or (regionally) "to come with"
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It's useless to ask with a scoop when been given with a spoon
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Either we all fuck the whore or we drown her in a river.
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>>60063922
ha
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>>60063922
kek
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>>60063465
"Climb the mirrors"
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"it's not the tail of the dog that wiggles the dog"
"you can't make a baby on three month with three girls"
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It's so cold that my skin feels like if a beetle was in it.
The person who went to Seville, lost his chair.
Saint Rita, what is given shall not be taken away.
That costs an eye from my face!
When the crow flies low, it's going to be cold as fuck
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The company of the self is better than bad company
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A crowd of people mountain people sea
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>>60071431
To eat a fish and to sit on a dick.
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>>60071682
Does this mean to give up?
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To be excited as a flea
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Firing at an ambulance
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>>60073019
No it when someone wants to cheat everyone: buy a product and do not give money, do not work and get paid, etc.
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>>60063922
Who is it in Spanish? Never heard of it.
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戴綠帽子
Wear a green hat.
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Your taste is like a butt, no two butts are alike
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Ass first onto a tree
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>If all you invent is a cheese slicer, make it the greatest slicer ever

This one really means that even seemingly small accomplishments can actually be as big, if not bigger than things like walking on the moon or acheiving world peace
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It's preferable to have one bird in your hand than one hundren flying.
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>>60063465
> Now comes the monkey to look out of the sleeve
> to buy a cat in a sack
> a good start is half of the work
> to let someone eat the cheese off of your bread
> driving a crooked skate
> every house has its little cross
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once in the ass doesn't make one a homo
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>>60075969
topkek is it real?
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The pineapple is not up my ass
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faggot with another one's ass
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>>60076023
yes quite popular in fact
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your are looking for hair in the egg
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To roll a shovel
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"I have the mole at the top of the luge, and she's only holding with one arm" - I need to take a shit
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There are owels in the moss.

Now you shit with your beard in the mailbox.

You have shat on the rope
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Like walking past a Turkish graveyard.
To pass something quickly and without interest.

t. serb
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>>60076238
>Now you shit with your beard in the mailbox.
sit*
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>>60076260
I feel great spiritual kinship with the Serbian nation their butthurt is admirable
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No matter how small your oven is, there is always place for another jew
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>>60000000
>>59999999
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>>60000001
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>>60075903
That idiom also exists in English, but in a slightly different form: "One bird in the hand is worth two in the bush".

"To let the sow out", which means to paint the town red, to party hard.
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"won't result in either a baby or shit"
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>You get use to everything, except to an icicle up the ass and even that melts away.
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to discover warm water - when someone says something that is in reality old

selling pumpkins - bullshitting

looking at something like a calf looking at new doors - to look with a very dumb look

a donkey doesn't go on the ice twice - even a dumbass learns from mistakes

like a headless hen - probably self-explanatory
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Are you gonna teach your dad/mom how to make babies?

This one is used by parents when they know you're lying.
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>>60075969
>>60076023
it's russian
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>>60076594
Our proverb is: Better a swallow in the hand than a pigeon on the roof.

Some others are:

You don't look at a gifted horse's teeth - this means a horse that has been gifted to you. You accept gifts as they are

Almost never caught a rabbit. - If you "almost" do something, it still means you didn't do it.

There will be no bread from this flour.
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The devil is a squirrel

God said, "Let there be light" but Peter didn't find the switch
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>>60075969
We have basically the same one: One time won't make one a homo
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>>60076898
This reminded me two good ones.

I'm not from yesterday.
I didn't swim here on soup.

Both mean pretty much the same as yours.
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>>60076260
lel
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>>60076897
>looking at something like a calf looking at new doors
we have it too but with ram instead calf

and this
>Better a swallow in the hand than a pigeon on the roof.

>You don't look at a gifted horse's teeth
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a gypsy wedding has to do without marzipan

means "sometimes you dont get what you want"
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One Carniolan is worth a hundred jews.

That's because we are very frugal people.
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>>60063465
Or all of us fuck or the whore goes into the river.
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when there's not the cat mice dance
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>>60077566
When something is a Spanish village, it means that something is completely unknown/alien to someone.
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>>60077245
When you know someone is lying to you we would respond:

Now tell me a cowboys' story.
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>>60077587
When the cat isn't home, the mice dance.*
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>>60077118
>Better a swallow in the hand than a pigeon on the roof
That's very similar to the German equivalent of this idiom:

"Besser ein Spatz in der Hand als eine Taube auf dem Dach".

"Better a sparrow in the hand than a dove on the roof".
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>>60077648
One could say that one has been "carried around" or fifteen'd (I don't know how to translate this one - it's "opetnajstiti", which comes from petnajst (fiftenn)).

>>60077696
It seems to be identical, really.
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>>60063465
>Now comes the monkey out of the sleeve
Now the true intentions are becoming clear
>Go into the sea with someone
Agree to work together
>A renegade is even worse than a Turk
A friend of long ago is much worse than a life-long enemy
>That's a little egg
Easy
>No money no Swiss
No money no goods
>fat kitchen lean testament
Someone who lives big leaves little
>When the stick is erect, the owl is gone flying
Just guess
>We will let them smell a little shit
We'll show them
>Eating out of Egypt's pot
Still eating at your parents' house
>Soft winter, fat graveyards
In mild winters there are (or were) usually more deaths than in big boi winters
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>60077974
>No money no Swiss
>No money no goods
You're shitting me.
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>>60078035
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Apparently it comes from the 16th century when Swiss mercenaries left Frans I because he couldn't pay them, saying 'geen geld, geene Zwitsers' (no money no Swiss)
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>>60078312
Top kek. Why am I not surprised?
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>>60078035
"Swiss" is synonymous with high-quality servant here
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>>60063465
There is no dog to look at the fur
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>>60077587
>>60077245
>>60075903
>>60076897
Pretty cool how these exist in other languages too, but with slightly different wording.
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>>60078369
Because of the Swiss Guard, I suppose.
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Burst like a hymen in Sunday school
Spins like a madman's dick in the ass of a mindless person.
Precise job like screwing a louse: a millimeter astray and it's in the eye.
Red like an ill pig's cunt.
Shines like a Jew's balls.
Don't teach your dad how to fuck.
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When you argue with your parents or when you are rude with them, it's common for them to say:

The birds now are shooting the shotguns
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>>60077696
>>60077118
Over here we say "Better a bird in the hand then two in the bush"
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>>60077118
>You don't look at a gifted horse's teeth
We have this one too.
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>>60078616
Isn't it "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush", actually?
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Wenn s Arschi brummt, is s Herzi gsund.
"When the ass grumbles, the heart is healthy"
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>>60078616
"Better to have 1 bird in your hand than 10 in the sky"
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>>60073391
o follamos todos o la puta al río
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Having rats in the attic - being crazy

He is not the sharpest knife in the drawer - he is not the smartest

To walk like a cat around warm porridge - to avoid a problem or something uncomfortable

Smell the fuse - to discover that something isnt right or that something is a scam

To put the long leg in front - to get going or take initiative, get something done

He does not own a red prawn - he is poor

t. Danish anon
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>>60078664
Dä dümmschdi Buur hät die gröschdä Härdöpfel!
"The stupidest farmer has the biggest potatoes!"
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>>60077118
>Better a swallow in the hand than a pigeon on the roof.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
>You don't look at a gifted horse's teeth
Never look a gift horse in the mouth
>>60077245
>I'm not from yesterday
I wasn't born yesterday
>>60077587
>when there's not the cat mice dance
When the cat's away, the mice will play
>>60065449
>"you can't make a baby on three month with three girls"
You can't knock up 9 women to make a baby in a month
>>60067841
>The company of the self is better than bad company
Better to be alone than in bad company

These are the only ones I recognise.
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>>60063465
İki ucu boklu değnek
A stick with shit on both sides
It's about being in a shitty situation
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let everyone be their own dick's barber
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>>60078744
We have:
He is not the sharpest pen in the pencil
To walk like a cat around warm porridge
Smell the fuse
To put the long leg in front

I'm tad surprised we have so similar sayings.
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>That is hat
>That's an underwater post
>That's a piece!
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The man who does not know will know when it itches.
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Here we say "Hopp dä Bäse!" (literally "Come on, the broom!" to mean "Hurry up!".
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>>60078744
>To walk like a cat around warm porridge
We have this one too.

Also, some others:
Whoever waits, awaits.
Do not praise a day before the night.
No work, no food.
Like ass and shirt. - means to be inseperable
It's easy to shit with a full ass.
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>>60079161
>No work, no food

Famous soviet saying
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>>60078744
I like "smell the fuse"
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"Dä isch am Tüfel ab em Charre gheit". (That guy fell off the devil's wagon"). It means that someone has narrowly escaped death.
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>>60079161
"Like an ass and a shirt" is used here too
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From lost to the river
>Now we are here we'll do this aswell

As Pisuerga (river) goes thru Valladolid (city)
>Something alike as above.

The one who wakes up early god helps.
>Self explanatory.

Said the pan to the saucepan.
>When someone insults you it's like saying 'you are worse'

Not by wakening earlier the sun rises sooner.
>About not being impatient.
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Do not dig pit to other - you yourself will fall into it

one head is good - but 2 is better

no matter how much rope is curl, and the end will still come

Work is not a wolf - in the woods not run away

>>60079206
who does not work shall not eat
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Pepper in the ass of other is refreshing
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>>60079161
>>60079329
"Do not praise a day before the night" also resembles "Don't lick before it drops"
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Put a rabbit
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Even a dick is a balalaika in master's tricky hands
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"the English are landing" means "to menstruate"
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>>60079487
the fool can broke even the dick
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>>60079335
A good 'understander' need fewer words.

To a gifted horse you shall not look at his teeth.

To every pig comes his 'San Martin' (party where they kill pigs).

To naive words, deaf ears.

When the devil has nothing to do he kills flies with his tail.

When one does not want to, two don't argue.

The bear as the man, the furrier the prettier

The one who warns is not a traitor.
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>>60080017
Correcction, instead of look at, a better translation would be check
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>>60075969
There's a joke like this "Build a bridge, but they don't call you the bridge builder. Build a wall, but they don't call you the wall maker. But fuck one goat and..."
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>>60080017
What's with devils and flies? Our version is something like "Even the devil eats flies when desperate."

Also, a good one is "For every ass there is a rod (for whipping)." It's something said to children.
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a bad dancer is impeded even by his balls
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we were three and the donkey gave birth
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>>60078744
Not the sharpest tool in the shed
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English originally but hopefully foreigners won't get it.

>Ship shape and Bristol fashion

Also
>Up shit creek without a paddle
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>>60082358
American version
>Up a creek without a paddle
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The cock took him away
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>>60087201
You cannot defeat the cock.
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>>60063856
In Wisconsin there are a lot of Germans and my gf said one of their expressions her family picked up was "how's it come?" but when said fast it's all one word like howsicome?
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pick up the logs
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Strangling the Jew.

There's owls in the moss.

To bite in the sour apple.

Go where the peppers grow.

Selling the skin before the bear is shot.

Holding your tongue straight in the mouth.

Taking someone on the bed.

Calling the moose.
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>>60077118
We also have the bird one as mentioned with slightly different wording. The gift horse one is exactly the same as here in English but not as many use it.

We have one for almosts that goes "Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades"

However, many people like to add a third to the almost saying such as "Almost only counts in horse shoes, hand grenades, and nuclear bombs" or something like that. The first two you can't change but people change the third to whatever to try to be funny.
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>>60078662
No the American bro was right at least that's how I've heard it used hear.

Basically saying things you have are worth more value than things you don't have but want more.
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Only a Quaker can buy from a Jew and sell to a Scot and still profit.
An exhortation to be honest regardless of the situation.
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Don't get caught with your beard in a letterbox
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I recall a Portuguese person using the idiom "Im going to go drown a nigger" to refer to doing a poo.
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>>60077974
>A renegade is even worse than a Turk
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>>60075359
Gosto é igual cu, cada um com o seu.
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>>60088984
>Selling the skin before the bear is shot.
The same as "Counting your eggs before they hatch."
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Here and there, out and around, round and about, hither and thither, to and fro, back and forth, up and down, in and out, over and under, hippity hoppity, round the corner, over the river and through the woods, lickety split, clockin the jizz, grinding the axe, up to no good, nippin the bud, good and plenty, lollygagging around, making the rounds, painting the town red, packing a load, hugging a tree, skinning the dog, skip to my lou, sowing my oats, passing a stone, shooting the breeze, jumping the fence, humpin the horse, dancing a jig, spinning a yarn, sipping the cider, flexin the pecs, groomin my do, packing the pete, licking the chicken, pinching the penny, do-si-do
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>>60094659
Counting your chickens before they hatch*
I'm fucking retarded
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>>60076361
Funnily enough we also have an idiom "My ass hurts".
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You don't descent to the well with his/her rope.
I think it's pretty self-explanatory.
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>>60077117
how exactly does that go in russian?
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>>60095488
Oдин paз - нe пидapac.
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Going where even the emperor goes on foot - going to the toilet

Laying the cable - taking a shit

Calling the deer - vomiting
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The stick will eat
The snake will smoke
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The mother of idiots is always pregnant

But there's so many in my dialact that don't even exist in Italian like:

You really are a 1901 boy [In 1901 in my city some kinf of epidemy that led people whi were born that year to be mostly stupid or something like that]

It's better a quintal on your shoulder than a fifth in your ass

Open your eyes, they're easy to close

As the waterdrop told the stone: "It will take time, but I'll pierce you!"

Last one is my fav.
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Two hits with one stone.
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Pierce the heavens with your drill
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megesik
hogy a csiga elesik
>it happens sometimes that the snail falls over
mondta a kobra,
majd eldőlt jobbra
>said the cobra then tilted right
valóban,
görög volt a falóban
>indeed, there was a greek in the wooden horse

they mean absolutely nothing. but they rhyme
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>>60071682
>To eat a fish and to sit on a dick.

pidorashka
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>Spinning like a lingonberry in a pussy
To wonder around aimlessly

>If no girl on Pentecost, no girl in the whole summer
If you have not found a girl/guy for summer by the christian holiday Pentecost, you won't have one for summer

>No worries, if she has grown up to be like her mother, she will have sex with you. If she grew up like her dad, she will straight up beg for it.
In response to worries about girls having sex with someone.

>Juo ES pelaa CS
Drink ES play CS spera spörde
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to shit in the purse

fart into the fine flour

(he is so horny, he could fuck)a fly in flight [we don't say that sentence in the brackets, only the second part. but everyone knows what we mean on "even a fly in flight"]
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>>60096875
What part of the USA are you in? I've never heard of any of these.
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Idle grocer weigh out his balls all day

hapless beduin will fucked by a polar bear in the desert

If an umbrella gets in the ass, it will not be opened

If one have not eaten someone else's punch , he thinks his punch is a hammer

Donkey will die with a boner

Don't go to forest when the bears fucking

Don't laugh like a fresh fucked bride etc.
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>>60096692
To kill two flies in one swat is how we say it.
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"Don't make fuck the chicken"
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>>60096915
i'm in Hungary but at work and there's a fuckin proxy
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>>60096958
'Two birds with one stone' in the USA, pidorashka.
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>>60075969
And 10 times makes it zero again
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>>60096984
wtf?
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>>60075969
It's just a brojob. choo choo.
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>>60096995
I know, faggot (I suppose that is what the word you wrote means).
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Disappeared like a fart in Sahara
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>>60097063
yeah. I just learned it from dvach.
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A sparrow in hand beats a dove on a branch.
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>>60097103
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
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"Um den heißen Brei herumreden"
>talk around the hot porridge; basically means you avoid voicing an uncomfortable truth
"Die Katze im Sack kaufen"
>buying the cat in the bag; means that you're purchasing something without being able to check the quality beforehand

Those are just the ones I recognized ITT, we have an abundance of idioms to the point where I can't think of a particular one off the top of my head
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>>60096995
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree trunk.
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astrayed like liquid storkshit in the air

if somebody wants to be a whore, don't be surprised if she gets fucked
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It's interesting how idioms might have a different wording but the meaning is always the same.

Are humans that predictable?
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shit like a fart in the asshole
means that you should never give up
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what hang doesn't drown
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walking past a turkish graveyard
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>>60097122
K what about these, I'll put in a meme translation too


>when the cat's gone the mice dance (fug the bolice :-----DD)
>when a willow bears grapes (never)
>poison is held in a small bottle (don't underestimate manlets)
>paper can withstand everything (it's easy to talk shit when not face to face)
>the hills shook, a mouse was born (hype is always overblown)
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>>60097045
>There's no better pussy than your friend's ass.
It's a gopnik """""joke""""".
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>>60097133
Just tree, I'd say. Also, literally the same idiom exists in English

Also, remembered some more
"Sich zum Affen machen"
>to make a monkey of yourself, self-explanatory
"blaumachen"
>making blue, refers to truancy, not showing up to school or work or whatever
"Gang nach Canossa"
>preparing to make a painful and embarassing apology, refers to one of the German Kaiser who had to crawl in front of the pope in order to save himself from excommunication
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For a bad dancer even his balls are a handicap.
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"a hedgehog is getting married" - when it rains and its sunny
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Wenn das Arscherl brummt is das Herzerl g'sund.
>When the arsie hums is the heartie healthy.
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bread with butter
>easy as pie
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Gone like a syphilis from Töölö.

Desu these threads always remind me how similar the sayings are all over the western world.
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English doesn't have declensions and cases, I can't translate most of them.

>Where Makar didn't graze his calves.
Far away.
>I'll show you where do yabbies hibernate.
I'll show you!
>Written by pitchfork on the water.
Not a hard fact. You can't rely on it.
>You won't pour them apart by water.
They seem to be inserapatable.
>Where the dog is buried.
That's where the hidden truth is.
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>>60063856
>such as "What gives"
"Was gibt"
wat. was sollte das heißen?
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>>60097346
We say 'Easier than a steamed turnip'.
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The broccoli has run out
>"The fun stops here"
or
>"This joke has lasted too much"
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>>60097423
Was gibts.
What's the matter/What's going on.
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looking like a calf in a railway - looking dumb
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>>60097467
Being dumb like 5 meters of field path.
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>>60097415
We have line written in water and buried dogs too. Honestly kinda surprised that it's only two out of five.
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>"Every crazy man has his theme"
Everyone likes whatever they like.
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>>60097488
"Er schaut wie ein Eichhörnchen wenns blitzt"
>"looking like a squirrel in a thunderstorm, pretty much means just looking dumb/naive
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>>60097415
>Where the dog is buried.

we have this also

>Tears from a long joy

good times end
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The good shall be carved in stone
The evil shall be written in snow

A small fish in the boat
Is better than a big fish in the fjord

There is no need to cross the creek to fetch water
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>>60097564
>There is no need to cross the creek to fetch water
We have
>There is no need to go further than the sea to get fish
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>>60097535
You're dumber than bread. Bread can mold you can nothing.
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"Like a monkey with a coconut" - looking dumb because a monkey doesn't know what to do with a coconut.

"your coconut cracks open because you can't keep it closed" - when people think you like a girl, so you try extra hard to be mean to her to convince people that you don't like her, but that only proves that you do.
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>>60065449
first one is 'tail wagging the dog'
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>>60097192
Life and peoples are exactly this predictable.
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>>60097329
There are different iterations of the 'x is getting married' stories when it is raining while it is sunny here too.
Some versions are 'a duwende(gnome) is getting married' or 'a tikbalang (centaur except the only horse part is the head and the rest is human) is getting married.'
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>>60097192
>>60097631

we live more similar lives than we think.
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Oт иглa дo кoнeц (from begining to end)
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Horses kick out of love too.
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"Sibat na tayo" roughly translates to "Let's spear" but its true meaning is "Let's leave this place".
Sibat is spear in filipino
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to boil porridge - to get in trouble
to shoot crows - to daydream
on ninth heaven - feel a lot of pleasure
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A rolling stone don't grow moss.

Can you guess this one?
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>>60097866
Lmao we have seventh heaven instead

>>60097867
keith richards and mick jagger are immortal
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>>60097894
>>60097866
we have seventh sky
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to cut mushrooms - to talk shit/suck at something
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>>60097894
Nope.

Here's a clue: it has to do with money
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>>60097921
I don't see the logic in this one.
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>>60097866
>to boil porridge
To go into the cave of the Lion
>to shoot crows
To stare a hole in the wall.
>on ninth heaven
being on cloud seven
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The vineyard wants a pick(hoe?),not a prayer.
Fear guards the vineyard.
He who chases two rabbits doesnt catch even one.
If you could learn by watching all dogs would be butchers.
White money for black days.
God is high up, the Tzar is far.
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>>60097987
>If you could learn by watching all dogs would be butchers.
I like this one
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Where no prosecuter there no judge.
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>>60097907
sky=heaven
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Going for mushrooms. - to die
To go whistle to crabs. - also means to die
To keep the store open. - to have the zipper on your trousers open (so you're showing "the goods" - ergo the store reference)
Going to sleep with the hens. - going to bed early
Early hour, golden hour.
Whoever flies high falls low.
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>>60063465
birds who fart in their own mouth are no better than carrots growing upside down
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>>60098104
>to have the zipper on your trousers open

We say that your horses will escape if the zipper is forgot open
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Sgovorna druzhina, planina povdiga - A united company/group lifts a mountain

something about teamwork and shit
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"You can't have the barrel(of wine) full and the wife drunk"
Means you can't have all good things, you have to renounce one to get the other
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>>60098104
Expression for dying:
To give away the last spoon.
To enjoy the last supper.
To sleep with the fish.
To rebt a room in the worms hotel.
To go to the eternal hunting grounds.
To give up the ghost.
To go in front of the dogs.
To bite into the grass.
To go over the Jordan.
To be carries with the feet ahead out of the house.
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>>60098180
>"You can't have the barrel(of wine) full and the wife drunk"
kek
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Why are all of your idioms retarded
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>>60098299
Now we have the salad.
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>>60098273
Throw a crank.
Go under the mold.
Go to the last place to sleep.
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>>60098273
Throw the spoon to the corner
Kick the emptyness
Move to more peaceful hunting grounds
To keel over
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>>60087867
>>60097894

It mean that if you always keep on the move, live different things in different places or simply move a lot , you wont be able to make savings.
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>>60098273
>To go to the eternal hunting grounds.
Same here.

Also to breathe out.

>>60098335
To have a potato means to be lucky, here.
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>>60078861
Up shit creek without a paddle
>>60078991
Not the sharpest knife
Put your right foot forward
Sleek like a cat/smooth like a cat/sly like a cat
the fuse one does not have enough words for me to understand what you are trying to say but probably "wake up and smell the coffee", or even smells like shit/bullshit; smells fishy.


English cannot be beat, faggots, it is the greatest language on the face of the Earth and has more words than any of yours, iirc more words than any other language even--niggers
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>>60098471
>To have a potato means to be lucky, here.
To have a pig here.
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It's better to drown your sorrows than to teach them to swim

The grass is green enough on our side of the fence if we only remember to water it

Necessity teaches naked women to spin

Many small creeks make one big river
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>>60098478
>praises a language that isn't even his
>praises babby's first foreign language

>>60098390
>>60098338
>>60098273
I remember another fine one - to stretch - also means to die.
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>60098478
>50% vocabulary borrowed from french
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>Don't put everyone in the same sack - don't generalize
>Poke the snails - hurry up
>The shrimp that falls asleep gets carried away by the tide
>Potato for a parrot - something very easy
>You ballsack - an insult
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>>60063465
>Circling around like a ruskie in Anttila
Ruskies were peeing their pants when they came to Finland for the first after the dissolution of SU and saw the products which were available. Even a mid range mall like Anttila made them excited.
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>>60098478
>people of all languages celebrating their different idioms
>american comes to shit thread up witha post claiming their language is superior

very nice, just as expected :DDD have a you :DD
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>>60098557
>literally my language
>literally the lingua franca of humanity

>>60098582
can't judge a book by its cover/don't box people together
wake the turtle
there are sayings for all of those but the parrot, but I can't remember them exactly
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If you are friends with the russians, watch your back and hold your axe in readiness.
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"Good blood doesn't lie" - means that you are the same as your father, be it good or bad
"He who remains silent, consents." -means that if you don't say anything, it's because you agree with what others are saying or doing
"To trust is good, to distrust is better" -means that you should trust no one ever with anything
"Clear pacts, long friendship" -means you have to be very clear with friends on what you want and who you are, so that the friendship can be stronger
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>>60098681
You mean the language of England.
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>>60098681
Oh sorry, you didn't tell me you were British. You're a Brit, right? You're not an American and therefore a speaker of another nation's language, right?
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>>60098724
>Always with Germany, never against Russia
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Punch the moon
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>>60063465
don't tell the ass how to shit just give him to eat
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Who steals an egg steals an ox
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Beats his ass not to shit - when someone is tightfisted
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>>60098803

I do not understand this.
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>>60099078
Even small thefts count, I guess
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>>60098724
A Russian is a Russian even when fried in butter
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Who has it hard, wins
:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
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Who lives of hope, hopeless he will die.
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>>60099185
if you were without legs - dont be sad, you could be born Russian
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>>60099296
Hope dies last.
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cut a turk's blood and swine's blood will flow
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>>60099590
throat*
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>>60099484
We also have that, but we say it in latin. (Spes ultima dea as opposed to Italian Speranza è l'ultima dea)
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"A good laugh lengthens your life" said the hag, and laughed herself to death.
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>>60099913
Laughter is half of health. (meaning people should laugh more)
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"As if you pulled that out of cows butthole"
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>>60063922
Are you Indian?
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>>60075969
It goes like "one time - not a faggot" in Russian (odin ras - ne pidoras)
I think it's an interslavic saying.
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to spin like a lingonperry in a pussy
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>>60098273
>To go to the eternal hunting grounds.
I'm pretty sure it's from Karl Mays books, we say that too.
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"Good night" said granny when her eye burst
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You need to try everything except folk dances and your sister
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>>60100747
lmao
what's wrong with finnish folk dances?
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