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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This is a broad format, but I like the American English formula of "Well, blank my blank and call me a blank!" to express "oh wow, I did not expect that!"

Typically in my experience, it is pretty vulgar. Eg: "well, slap my ass and call me a bitch!"

Well, smoke my toads and call me a squid-squab!

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