“To get the cow from the ice” (“Die Kuh vom Eis kriegen”) is a german phrase meaning to solve an urgent problem.

This always made more sense to me than the english, you cant have your cake and eat it too.

I always had problems with that idiom in English, until someone pointed to me that it's backwards just because it sounds better, it means "You can't eat your cake and have it too", i.e. if you eat the cake you don't have it anymore, so you can't both have and eat it at the same time.

When you want it both ways but cant: "You want to blow with flour in your mouth"

Oh I like this one

In French we would say « You can’t have the butter and the butter’s money »

One usual extension of the expression is « You can’t have the butter, the butter’s money and the creamer’s butt »

When there’s no reason to hurry « y a pas le feu au lac » (« the lake isn’t on fire »)

When something is complete gibberish, it "sounds like volapyk" / lyder som volapyk.

In Dutch we say “This might as well be Turkish”, if something makes no sense.
If I recall correctly, I Turkish they call complete gibberish “Chinese”, and Mandarin just straight skips to “ethereal writing”.

You can definitely see which one's the more difficult language, here.

Bears Favor exists in German too (jemandem einen Bärendienst erweisen)