What weird idioms/phrases does your language have?

hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 241 points –

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

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In Australia people who mean business say "I'm not here to fuck spiders." I think that's just wonderful.

In America we express suffering beyond words by saying we're "living the dream". And the Brits think we have an irony deficiency.

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