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Weird sayings and expressions!
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Weird sayings and expressions!
In Swedish, when you want to call someone an arsehole, you often resort to the word “skitstövel”, literally translating to “shit boot”. That’s a bit weird.
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Ana ugglor i mossen (sensing owls in the bog)
When something strange is afoot. Because, what’s weirder than seeing owls. In a bog..? -
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Sort of like being called a “shitheel?”
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I’ve never heard that before ahahaha brilliant!
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“I’m not here to fuck spiders.” Meaning that they are here with purpose. Ex: A:”Are you here to fix the plumbing?”, B:”Well, I’m not here to fuck spiders!”
There is a great malapropism, that comes from two idioms: “We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.” Loosely don’t be anxious about the future. “Don’t burn your bridges.” Loosely don’t take advantage of people. They mix into the wonderful, almost Zen koan: “We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it!” 😀
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Ahaha brilliant!
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There’s hard to pronounce saying in Polish: “i cóż, że ze Szwecji” = “so what, that’s from Sweden”. (it’s hard to prenounce because of sounds “ż” and “sz” that sound very simlar as English “sh”)
Even Swedish Embassy in Warsaw called it’s FB profile this way 🙂-
haha cool!
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