What are some (non-English) idioms, and what do they mean (both literally and in context)? Odd ones, your favorite ones - any and all are welcome. :)

For example, in English I might call someone a “good egg,” meaning they’re a nice person. Or, if it’s raining heavily, I might say “it’s raining cats and dogs.”

  • amio
    1•1 year ago

    Something can go “like chopped shit” - smoothly, I guess.

    Thinking suitcase (being a gutter mind).

    Painting Satan on the wall (making mountains out of mole hills).

    X on the ceiling (well done/good for you) - no idea, don’t ask.

    Whittling splinters (splitting hairs) I guess is fairly obvious.

    One can also be “snowed down” (an idiot), an onion sausage (idiot), way out in the field (clueless, lost, idiot).

    Something is “completely Texas” when it’s chaotic, uncontrolled, unregulated or just generally nuts.

    A Northerner might describe something that only barely worked/made it on time as “by [one] cunt hair”.