Author Topic: Funny foreign sayings ... (Read 4734 times)

BrotherJim · « **Reply #30 on:** April 12, 2019, 08:47:30 AM »

More tea, Vicar?

rschrum · « **Reply #31 on:** April 12, 2019, 08:59:24 AM »

Danish co worker used to say, finer than a frogs hair, split 3 times and sanded.

kballowe · « **Reply #32 on:** April 12, 2019, 09:30:54 AM »

Whale oil beef hooked

Knuckle Dragger · « **Reply #33 on:** April 12, 2019, 09:34:35 AM »

Tasmanian colloquialisms. Mostly of old/colonial/maritime origin, still in occasional to regular use locally, but seldom heard or used elsewhere any more. By no means exclusively Tasmanian either.

You're/he's a Rum 'un = Queer, strange, eccentric, odd.
Mad as a cut snake = Self explanatory
Flat out like a lizard drinkin' = Hard at it, busy.
Cock = Term of greeting/endearment used with friends, like the more Aussie "ol' bastard", mate, cobber etc. Horrifying to delicate alien sensibilities, but totally benign when used locally.
Badger Box = Humble shack, hovel or weekender.
Sandshoes = Plimsolls, sneakers, trainers, tennis or running shoes.
Durrie = Fag, cigarette, gasper, coffin-nail.
Goon, goonbag, goonsack = Cheap cardboard cask wine (or just the silver bag inside)
A sandwich short of a cut lunch, Not the full Quid, Tuppence short of a shilling = None too bright.
A Dill, A Duffer = As above, but milder, almost lovingly indulgent.
Cut-lunch Commando = Weekend warrior, CMF soldier, Army reservist, Territorial Army soldier.
Drop-shorts = Artillery Personnel.
Tuppence-Ha'penny = Not very good (object/thing), i.e. just shy of three pence or worthiness.
Map 'o Tassie = Minge, feminine pubic hair.
Belgium = Fritz, polony, windsor, luncheon meat, devon, german, strasbourg.
Double-dink = Riding pillion.
Slash, spend a penny = Number ones.
Choke a darkie, snap one off = Number Twos
Polly-waffle, brown-eyed mullet = Floating turd in the sea/swimming pool
Maggot pack = Meat pie
Maggoted, pissed as a newt, rat-arsed = In his cups
Flat maggot = Fast, throttle to the stop.
The Ton/Ton-Up = 160km/hr (from old 100 MPH), a cricket century.
Beastly careless = Indifferent
No wuckin' furries = No description possible (or needed I suspect).
Take a gander/have a squiz/rubber-neck/have a butcher's (from butcher's hook [look]) = Have a good look.
'gis a squiz = abbrev. for "give us (me) a squiz" (look).
Bail/bail-out = Leave unceremoniously.
Franger = Condom
Uterus = Bakkie, Utility, Pickup, Mini-Lorry, Baby-truck.
Wog = Mild illness, common cold etc.
The Fuq'n Guzzi = My old Spada

Wildguzzi.com · « **Reply #33 on:** April 12, 2019, 09:34:35 AM »

Sasquatch Jim · « **Reply #34 on:** April 12, 2019, 10:11:03 AM »

This one is from a sailors language.
Well, F#$k me silly with a handy billy.
Nobody knows what a handy billy is anymore unless they crew on a tall ship.
It is sometimes called a tailed tackle. 2 sheeves in one block and one in the other with a
hook on the single and a braided tail on the double. Carried by a bos'ns mate when he makes his rounds checking tension on the standing rigging. Used to tighten the line through
the dead eye.
Johnny come latelys sometimes mistakenly use it as a term for a drop pump.
In the phrase above , it is an expression of surprise.

Shorty · « **Reply #35 on:** April 12, 2019, 10:11:36 AM »

"Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up!" (Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Speckled Band ) Made for an interesting morning in Jr High English class.

Knuckle Dragger · « **Reply #36 on:** April 12, 2019, 10:27:15 AM »

Quote from: kballowe on April 12, 2019, 09:30:54 AM

Whale oil beef hooked

Works best with a Dublin accent!

dguzzi · « **Reply #37 on:** April 12, 2019, 10:38:47 AM »

"A fine bit of kit"
"Cool Granadillas"

tris · « **Reply #38 on:** April 12, 2019, 10:59:10 AM »

Quote from: molly on April 12, 2019, 08:18:54 AM

"Fanny like a bucket". Comes to mind but best not to go there.

Don't go any further with that train of thought or Dusty will flame you and then ban you

Furbo · « **Reply #39 on:** April 12, 2019, 11:19:23 AM »

From bel' italia:

Spero scopa meglio che guidi - I hope you 'make love' better than you drive

Un passo piu lungo della gamba - a step longer than your leg - (his reach exceeds his grasp)

Non rompere i scattole - don't break the boxes - (don't bust my balls)

Boia! mild curse of exasperation or exclamation like 'oh $hit' But it's short for Boiade which literally means 'the hangman' in tuscan.

Hanno serpente in tasche - they have snakes in their pockets (they're cheap)

Donne motore, gioiosa dolore - women and motors (cars & bikes, etc) bring pleasure and pain.

Toecutter · « **Reply #40 on:** April 12, 2019, 12:29:58 PM »

"you still wearing that old bunny hug? You're loose"

oldbike54 · « **Reply #41 on:** April 12, 2019, 12:50:42 PM »

Don't give me any of your flannel

A British term meaning "don't try to fool me" , although it can take on slightly alternate meanings in different parts of England .

Dusty

Don G · « **Reply #42 on:** April 12, 2019, 12:53:17 PM »

Where's your toque, eh?

DonG

lucian · « **Reply #43 on:** April 12, 2019, 01:03:10 PM »

She said " put it in and walk towards me slowly"

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acogoff · « **Reply #44 on:** April 12, 2019, 01:33:59 PM »

Mind you, I am one and live in a northern Minnnesota community of scandinavian origins and often heard mixed into everyday normal English conversation are the phrase "Uff DA", "Fee Da", Ish Da", "You Bet", " Namen Faen", especially among the older crowd. It is just common knowledge what all these describe and no one thinks twice, but a bit odd to outsiders. The lingo they have on the movies like Fargo are not even close to the real thing.

oldbike54 · « **Reply #45 on:** April 12, 2019, 03:26:08 PM »

Another one from Ireland . "Aww , sure look it" , which from what I can gather is an appropriate response to almost anything .

"Seamus , did your daughter run off with a strange man?"

"Aww , sure look it Conner "

Dusty

Huzo · « **Reply #46 on:** April 12, 2019, 04:49:50 PM »

Quote from: Knuckle Dragger on April 12, 2019, 09:34:35 AM

Tasmanian colloquialisms. Mostly of old/colonial/maritime origin, still in occasional to regular use locally, but seldom heard or used elsewhere any more. By no means exclusively Tasmanian either.

You're/he's a Rum 'un = Queer, strange, eccentric, odd.
Mad as a cut snake = Self explanatory
Flat out like a lizard drinkin' = Hard at it, busy.
Cock = Term of greeting/endearment used with friends, like the more Aussie "ol' bastard", mate, cobber etc. Horrifying to delicate alien sensibilities, but totally benign when used locally.
Badger Box = Humble shack, hovel or weekender.
Sandshoes = Plimsolls, sneakers, trainers, tennis or running shoes.
Durrie = Fag, cigarette, gasper, coffin-nail.
Goon, goonbag, goonsack = Cheap cardboard cask wine (or just the silver bag inside)
A sandwich short of a cut lunch, Not the full Quid = None too bright.
A Dill, A Duffer = As above.
Cut-lunch Commando = Weekend warrior, CMF soldier, Army reservist, Territorial Army soldier.
Drop-shorts = Artillery Personnel.
Tuppence-Ha'penny = Not very good (object/thing), i.e. just shy of three pence or worthiness.
Map 'o Tassie = Minge, feminine pubic hair.
Belgium = Fritz, polony, windsor, luncheon meat, devon, german, strasbourg.
Double-dink = Riding pillion.
Slash = Number ones.
Choke a darkie, snap one off = Number Twos
Polly-waffle, brown-eyed mullet = Floating turd in the sea/swimming pool
Maggot pack = Meat pie
Maggoted, pissed as a newt = In his cups
Flat maggot = Fast
The Ton = 160km/hr (from old 100 MPH), a cricket century.
Beastly careless = Indifferent
No wuckin' furries = No description possible (or needed I suspect).
Take a gander/have a squiz/rubber-neck/have a butcher's (from butcher's hook [look]) = Have a good look.
Bail/bail-out = Leave unceremoniously.
Franger = Condom
Uterus = Bakkie, Utility, Pickup, Mini-Lorry, Baby-truck.
Wog = Mild illness, common cold etc.

Brilliant..!

bmc5733946 · « **Reply #47 on:** April 12, 2019, 07:11:01 PM »

I'm from Michigan my friend was from Texas. He's gone now. Whenever we were discussing someone's inability to grasp the obvious he would end the conversation with "Just cause they's ignant don't mean they's ignant.". For some the meaning may be obvious, me I's ignant and wish to remain so. The USA is so big that Michigan and Texas are like different countries.

Brian

SmithSwede · « **Reply #48 on:** April 13, 2019, 02:35:58 PM »

As a parrot owner, I really appreciate “Pissed as a parrot.”

Huzo · « **Reply #49 on:** April 13, 2019, 03:01:13 PM »

Quote from: Knuckle Dragger on April 12, 2019, 10:27:15 AM

Works best with a Dublin accent!

Nice one.

bad Chad · « **Reply #50 on:** April 13, 2019, 03:06:10 PM »

“ How’yah fixed for spit?” My dad was a tin can sailor in the early 50s and he claimed they would say all the time aboard ship.
Example, he’d say hand me the 3/8 socket wrench.

I, answer, “I don’t know where I put it. “

He’d reply, “How ya fixed for spit?” I asked what that was supposed to mean. He said, “ you don’t have what you should, do you even have any spit in your mouth?
I never heard anyone else say it, except for me to my kids!

Ncdan · « **Reply #51 on:** April 13, 2019, 03:40:04 PM »

its a common phrase in the south around my NECK OF THE WOODS, that getting ready to make a bad mistake was "you are fixin to shit and fall back in it" of course GOD FEARING FOLK would say " it's his row he's got to Hoe it"
If it was a mistake against another man one could get beat "within an inch of his life" but the bottom line is "he'd rather slap his momma than mess with me.
Lol, I could go on all day with this. Ain't it fun:)

Frenchfrog · « **Reply #52 on:** April 13, 2019, 03:51:23 PM »

Not the full pick-nick ;as bent as a 9 bob bit

oldbike54 · « **Reply #53 on:** April 13, 2019, 04:18:37 PM »

Foreign sayings fellas, F O R E I G N .

Dusty

Frenchfrog · « **Reply #54 on:** April 13, 2019, 04:22:40 PM »

"comme un pet sur une toile ciree ' translates to- like a fart on a waxed tablecloth- adnd used when something was going very fast .My French Mother had lots of very amusing ones but that one was a stand out !

slowmover · « **Reply #55 on:** April 13, 2019, 04:52:45 PM »

Response when someone is over confident with you "well don't you have a right brass neck?"

giusto · « **Reply #56 on:** April 13, 2019, 05:14:51 PM »

Hmmm Italians have the best sayings and they certainly know how to curse well :0

In dialect said to a friend passing by

sounds like "kissideech" means what's up? slang.....the dialect response to kissideech?

il sarde mangia la lece~.....the sardines eat the anchovies

in proper italian
i pesci grandi mangiano i piccoli pesci....."the big fishes eat the little fishes"

giusto · « **Reply #57 on:** April 13, 2019, 05:16:39 PM »

Quote from: slowmover on April 13, 2019, 04:52:45 PM

Response when someone is over confident with you "well don't you have a right brass neck?"

I work with a rather propper southern gentleman that says in the situation as mentioned above

"well you can say that, but you'd be wrong" lol

Shorty · « **Reply #58 on:** April 13, 2019, 06:36:08 PM »

"C'mon in! We need to 'ave a pint and a chinwag!"

Muzz · « **Reply #59 on:** April 13, 2019, 08:49:42 PM »

I remember some time back when a certain well known Australian was explaining how to do something technical in a gearbox, using expressions like "as much fun as a bucketfull of hemorrhoids" and "slicker than a lizard up a drainpipe". Someone asked in all seriousness, "can anyone translate what Pete just said".

Made me aware that sayings we use in everyday language can mean absolutely nothing to someone in another country.

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