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Burying the cunt of a mouse

• Flat out like a lizard drinking
• We’re not here to fuck spiders
• As dry as a dead dingo’s donger
• Forty cents short of a shout
• A few kangaroos loose in the top paddock

Two that are related to falling

猿も木から落ちる [Even] monkeys fall out of trees [too]. Just because you're good at something doesn't mean you'll always get it right.

七転び八起き Fall down 7 times, get up 8. Pretty self-explanatory

I really like the german "Geburtstagskind". It refers to a Person whose birthday is today but literally translates to "birthday child". However you use it for any age. If its your grandfathers 80st birthday he still is the birthday child this day. Usually people just use the word without thinking about it , but i really like the idea that everyone can get childish again on their birthday. :)

"Lukee kuin piru Raamattua" (Finnish).
Literally "to read like the Devil reads the Bible".
Meaning to examine something in bad faith. Never heard it used it in context of the Bible or anything religious, but eg. when interpreting law or contract, looking for the details that could be twisted for your purpose, rather than what the text attempts to convey.

In Khmer, there's a phrase "មិនដឹងខ្យល់" which literally translates to "Doesn't know wind" as in they're so dumb they don't even know what wind is.

I guess it's kind of like calling someone an air head but from a different angle.

"Das geht mir am Arsch vorbei."

German for I don't give a damn about that.

Literally: it passes by my ass.

You can also lift it up to a SFW level by saying "Das geht mir hinten vorbei." (It passes behind me), or strengthen it with "Das geht mir weit hinten vorbei." (It passes far behind me).

In colloquial English, you can say that someone is an idiot with the construction "you absolute [noun]" or "you complete [noun]" or similar.

It doesn't actually matter what the noun is, but it works better the more obscure or specific the thing is. For example "you absolute saucepan", "you complete hose pipe", or my personal favourite "you absolute strawberry plant".

Here's one in Egyptian Arabic: "He who gets burnt by soup will blow on yoghurt", meaning that someone who gets hurt once will bexome careful not to repeat the experience.

On ne peut pas avoir le beurre et l'argent du beurre (We can't have the butter and the butter's money)

This one would be the French equivalent of "You can't eat cake and have it"

Tomber dans les pommes (Falling in apples)

This is an expression to describe fainting

Tailler une pipe (Carving a pipe)

Give a blowjob

Esperanto

krokodili- verb, literally something like "to crocodile"

It means when an Esperanto-speaker speaks in a language other than Esperanto while amongst other Esperanto-speakers.

No one's quite sure why that's the term for it, most likely because crocodiles have a big mouth.

When I learned that, it suddenly made a lot of sense why Duolingo taught me the word for "crocodile" so early.

Referencing an unpopular future possibility - “that’ll go over like a turd in a punch bowl”

Describing something you don’t miss - “I miss that like I’d miss a case of the clap”

Rain coming in at a weird angle - “this rain is like a cow pissing on a flat rock”

When someone says they wish some specific thing would happen - “wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up first”

When you’re unenthusiastic about something - “I’d rather shit in my hands and clap”

An example as if I was talking to you: "I'll wack you like an octopus" which technically already describes the action, however traditionally in my country after catching octopus in order to properly kill them and soften them up, fishermen basically smack/wacked them on the ground maniacally.

And I think it's become such a popular figure of speech because that mental image is hilarious and I love using it.

此地无银三百两—literally "this location does not hide 15kg of silver". imagine a sign saying that with an arrow pointing downwards

"Butt fuck Egypt (BFE)," when referring to being in the middle of nowhere or the far edges of a parking area. For example, Sally complained to her friend in the food court, "I had to park all the way in BFE. I'm dreading the walk back to the car."

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Oddly meaning, you act like your dumbass parent.

前世害左你么？(In Cantonese/Taishanese)

Did I hurt you in your previous incarnation?

Parents always say this when they get mad.

I guess it translate to "What did I do in my previous life to deserve a shitty kid like you?"

So a round-about way of just saying trash-talking their kid basically.

I always respons, "So why did you hurt me in my my previous life?"

Or "Yea you hur me in my previous life and I reincarnated here for revenge" 🤣

(Who the fucked coined that phrase, why is reincarnation brought up wtf lol)

~~Kill two birds with one stone.~~ Get two birds stoned at once. 😎

I don't speak German, but I picked up a few phrases for work. They have a few idioms that I think of sometimes:

"Ich glaub, ich spinne" which means I think I'm crazy, but literally translates to "I think, I spider." It's a great visual metaphor, being overwhelmed by the threads going everywhere that you imagine you're a spider spinning a web, and also you've entirely forgotten grammar.

"Bahnhof verstehen" or "Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof" means "I understand only the train station." It's something you say when you don't understand anything, you're completely lost, and you don't give a shit becaue you just want to get the fuck home.

I might be off on those translations or the subtext, but that's how I understood it.

"Correo de las brujas" translates to "the witches' mail" and means gossip or rumors. Kind of like "heard it through the grapevine" or a "a little birdie told me"

You're mustard

English. It's a good thing, means the person is awesome.

"Jeg bryr meg katta"

literally "I care like a cat", meaning "I don't care in the slightest and talking more about it is an insult to my time".

It's fallen mostly out of use, but I'm hanging on.