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| Bubblyworld Newbie South Africa http:/ Joined 4286 days ago 7 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Xhosa, French, Japanese | Message 81 of 88 23 March 2013 at 4:12am | IP Logged |
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In Xhosa, "Kukho inyoka ayingeenyawo."
Literally, "There's a snake without feet." Figuratively, it means that there is trouble on the horizon. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5693 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes  Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 82 of 88 23 March 2013 at 3:00pm | IP Logged |
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I think I already posted earlier in this thread about my love for Serbo-Croatian swearing. Since then I've found a new website with a great list of creative insults. Several of them are misspelled, which makes me a bit leery of the site, but they're lots of fun to read in any case. Definitely not for the faint of heart!
Here are a few of my favorites: - "Gle kurtsa ti na biciklu" = "There goes your dick on a bicycle." - "Da Bog da te majka u cevapu prepoznala." = "May your mother recognize you in a hamburger." - "Jebem ti prvi red na sahrani" = "I f*** the whole front row at your funeral." - "Da Bog da ti kuca bila na CNN-U" = "May your house be live on CNN (means: I hope NATO will bomb your house)." - "Jebem ti majku na mrtvackom vozu za Sabac u pola noci u levo uvo u punom mjesecu." = "I f*** your mother in her left ear on a hearse going to Sabac at the midnight on the full moon." 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| FELlX Diglot Groupie France Joined 4770 days ago 94 posts - 149 votes Speaks: French*, English | Message 83 of 88 23 March 2013 at 4:55pm | IP Logged |
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- "baiser comme un lapin", literally "screw like a rabbit" (have sex quickly),
- "fumer comme un pompier", literally "smoke like a fireman" (Equivalent: "smoke like a chimney"), - "être muet comme une carpe", literally "be mute as a carp" (Equivalent: "be silent as a stone"). Edited by FELlX on 23 March 2013 at 4:56pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| doubleUelle Bilingual Tetraglot Groupie United States Joined 4035 days ago 67 posts - 95 votes Speaks: English*, Russian*, French, Japanese Studies: Spanish, Thai | Message 84 of 88 28 November 2013 at 7:32pm | IP Logged |
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I don't know if this one has been mentioned yet (I browsed through the first few pages
of this thread but couldn't be bothered to go through all of it): Japanese: 猫舌 Transliteration: neko-jita Literal translation: "cat tongue", "[to be] cat-tongued" Explanation: someone who hates/dislikes hot food and drinks. The expression comes from the fact that cats' tongues are very sensitive to heat, and so they won't eat/drink hot things. I have to admit that this is an expression that has come in handy a lot for me, as someone who absolutely cannot stand hot foot/drinks (I eat my soup and drink my coffee cold, etc). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ibryam000 Diglot Newbie France Joined 4665 days ago 37 posts - 50 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Bulgarian, Spanish | Message 85 of 88 25 February 2014 at 11:07am | IP Logged |
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FELlX, "baiser comme des lapins" actually means "have sex a lot". But yeah.
Edit: Sorry, did not see you wrote "comme un lapin", then it means "have sex quickly" indeed. Edited by Ibryam000 on 25 February 2014 at 11:11am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 DavidStyles Octoglot Pro Member United Kingdom Joined 3941 days ago 82 posts - 179 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Latin, French, Portuguese, Norwegian Studies: Mandarin, Russian, Swedish, Danish, Serbian, Arabic (Egyptian) Personal Language Map | Message 86 of 88 25 February 2014 at 11:55am | IP Logged |
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Some French idioms of which I'm fond:
Tuer les mouches à quinze pas (to kill flies at 15 paces) [to have bad breath] Manger son certificat de naissance (to eat one's birth certificate) [to die] Enculer les mouches (to sodomize flies) [to be unnecessarily pedantic, à la "to split hairs"] Être une allumeuse (to be a match, as in the kind that's a little wooden stick with sulphur stuff on the end to start fires) [to be a cocktease] Edit to add, sometimes neither France nor England want to own something, and each blame it on the other: Filer à l'anglaise (To leave in the English way) [to take French leave, to make a sudden departure] Un capot anglais (an English cap) [a French letter, a condom] Toast anglais (English toast) [French toast, a bread product] Edited by DavidStyles on 25 February 2014 at 12:11pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6105 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 87 of 88 25 February 2014 at 3:54pm | IP Logged |
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Some Polish ones on with a theme on gingerbread:
stary piernik lit. 'old gingerbread' = an old fogey (crusty old man) dzidzia piernik lit. 'baby gingerbread' = an older woman dressing as if she's much younger. [Equiv. English phrase: 'Mutton dressed as Lamb'] co ma piernik do wiatraka? lit. what has gingerbread to do with a windmill? = What's that got to do with it? Said in response to someone changing the topic of conversation for example. Edited by Mooby on 25 February 2014 at 4:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ibryam000 Diglot Newbie France Joined 4665 days ago 37 posts - 50 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Bulgarian, Spanish | Message 88 of 88 02 March 2014 at 10:45am | IP Logged |
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Some french metaphorical expressions to say "to f**k" or "to have sex" that I like and find very funny (nowadays, you won't hear these often though):
- planter le javelot dans la moquette - faire crapahuter le flemmard - dire bonjour à sa moitié - tirer sa chique - dérouiller son braquemart - empapaouter - dégraisser son hareng saur - battre le beurre - tremper son biscuit - frotter la couenne - mettre la cheville dans le trou - amener le petit au cirque - remuer le gigot - faire sprinter l'unijambiste - chatouiller le nénuphar ... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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