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Idioms (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

Meme in a format "chads vs soyaks":

Chads - Polish idioms

  1. Whore will not rip off head off of a whore
  2. You ask a boar if they shits in the woods
  3. Flies are pooping, spring is coming
  4. Grandma's shitting has ended

Soyaks - English Idioms

  1. Every cloud has a silver lining
  2. In the eyeof the beholder (with image of soyakish dnd beholder)
  3. Once in a blue moon
  4. Elehant in the room (image of soyak elephant)
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[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 44 points 2 weeks ago

Does the Pope shit in the woods?

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

People in glass houses sink ships

[-] RavuAlHemio@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

People in glass houses should go shit in the basement.

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

Loose lips shouldn't throw stones

[-] WordBox@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

A penny saved is worth two in the bush.

(This mix and match shit has got to go)

[-] jewbacca117@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

You make a mean caucasian, Jackie

[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

My favorite variation on this I ever heard came from one of my coworkers a few jobs ago. I forget the exact context, but:

"Hey [Name], can you get this done?"

"Can the Pope's dick fit through a donut?"

"....I don't know?"

"Exactly 😎👉"

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago
[-] archonet@lemy.lol 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Why you keep askin' me that? Where his holiness does his business, is his business.

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

English idiom in the vein of Polish shit idioms:

Stack wishes in one hand and shit in the other and see which one piles up first.

First time I heard a variation of it was from Mike Nelson on MST3K. He said crap instead of shit, obviously.

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

My family has always used "shit in one hand and wish in the other, see which one's ready first"

[-] hansolo@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

This is the best thing I've seen online in a week.

[-] HerrVorragend@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago
[-] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, it means shit's gonna hit the fan

[-] Benjaben@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Lmao but why? Are Polish folks especially concerned about the bathroom habits of their elders?!

Edit to add: before even knowing what it meant this one was my favorite.

[-] Zentron@lemm.ee 16 points 2 weeks ago

To share the best idiom from ex yu: "you fucked a hedgehog"

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago
[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

huh? what are the original idioms? i only ever heard the boar one (but the wolf version)

[-] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago
  1. Kurwa kurwie łba nie urwie
  2. Pytasz dzika czy sra w lesie
  3. Srali muchy będzie wiosna (needed to google it as a native polish speaker)
  4. Skończyło się babci sranie
[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Im polish and I don’t know the last one.

[-] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Why do they mean? They are super funny

[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I am Polish and I've only heard the first one, maybe once or twice lol.

[-] Paddzr@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Basically "they're finally done spewing crap" as in talking nonsense etc.

[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Must be regional. I'm Polish and haven't heard the first one.

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

huh! słyszałem tylko drugie

[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"When You're born a whore You won't die a canary." "You are getting to it like a dog to a hedgehog."

[-] salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago

The early bird in the hand that feeds is worth a thousand words

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

The early bird flu catches the brain worm.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

If you’re trying to mock English idioms then those aren’t even close to the worse.

How about:

“I screwed the pooch on this one”

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

Hey, you're the one fucking this goat; I'm just holding the horns.

[-] nuko147@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
  1. We (greeks) have the same about bears not boars. lmao
[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Same in German and actually I think I've heard that one in English too

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, in English we have the expression “does a bear shit in the woods?” Which is asked in response to some other question where the answer is clearly “yes.”

[-] LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

I definitely need context for "grandma's sitting has ended"

[-] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 weeks ago

means "I am enraged" can be said e.g. by mom to children

[-] LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago

If I'd had a million guesses I wouldn't have guessed that and yet it makes perfect sense, thank you

[-] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

no problemo

[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

So Sportsfreund, jetzt hat die Oma ausgeschissen!

[-] Paddzr@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Are you sure? Because to me this means someone has finished spewing bullshit. Or something annoying has finally come to an end.

Due to the respect for the elder, you let them finish, but you know it's nonsense.

[-] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

yeah, you are right. "I have had enough" is a better translation (Epic reference XD)

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

English ones:

go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut

it's a cunt hair away

to piss in the wind

shove it up your arse

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

One I like is "Not a snowball's chance in hell"

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[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 4 points 1 week ago

My great grandmother that had one that was:

Stop masturbating under that apple tree.

Maybe sounded better in Polish.

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

We've got "shit or get off the pot"

[-] Sidhean@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Grandma's shitting has ended.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Hungarian idioms:

"Szüljél sünt!" / "Go and give birth to a hedgehog!"

"Ez még a kutyának se kell." / "Not even the dog wants this."

"Az isten bassza meg!" / "God, fuck it!"

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