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1. Writer (www.adamsharp.me/)
2. Obsessed with lists
3. COMMON PEOPLE
4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS
5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (geni.us/yDxa)

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🇫🇷 A French term for leaving a party without saying goodbye is “leaving English style” vs 🇵🇹 A Portuguese phrase for something done merely for show or appearances is “for the English to see”

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🇵🇹 A Portuguese way of saying “it’s raining cats and dogs” translates to “it’s raining toads’ beards” vs 🇫🇷 A French expression about heavy rain is “it’s raining like a pissing cow”

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THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: Portugal vs France 🇵🇹 The Portuguese version of “I’m on cloud nine” translates to “I’m on my seven farms” vs 🇫🇷 A French was of saying you are well or happy is “I have the potato”

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🇪🇸 A Spanish way of saying “you’re beating around the bush” translates to “you’re getting the partridge dizzy” vs 🇩🇪 A German equivalent is “you’re doing the egg dance”

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I'll help you pack, Rishi Sunak

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🇪🇸 A Spanish way of saying “they lived happily ever after” translates to “they were happy and ate partridges”   vs   🇩🇪 A German way of bringing something to an end is “flap shut, monkey is dead”

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🇪🇸 A Spanish version of “all talk and no action” translates to “all noise and few walnuts” vs 🇩🇪 A similar phrase from German (specifically Berlin dialect) is “no hair on your head, but a comb in your pocket”

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THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: Spain vs Germany 🇪🇸 A Spanish way of saying “nobody asked you” translates to “who gave you a candle for this vigil?” vs 🇩🇪 An equivalent phrase from German is “no pig is interested in that”

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Rhymey byes with celebrities: 8. Come again soon, Reese Witherspoon 7. Have a nice day, Lana Del Rey 6. See you anon, Simon Le Bon 5. There’s the door, Pauly Shore 4. Now off you feck, Gregory Peck 3. Take a hike, Dick Van Dyke 2. Fall down a well, Harvey Keitel 1. I’ve run out of rhymes, Beyoncé

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Take your cheese and wine, pot-bellied swine

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Your reign is over, Caspian plover You lost big, mulefoot pig In the bin, pangolin

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A list of eight more lovely animal rhyme goodbyes... 8. See you later, alligator 7. Fare thee well, sand gazelle 6. You take care, grizzly bear 5. Now on you jog, prairie dog 4. Get in the bin, pangolin 3. Hope you rot, ocelot 2. Step on a lego, gargoyle gecko 1. Eat a dick, lone star tick

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A list of eight cute animal rhymes to say farewell... 8. In a while, crocodile 7. Toodle-oo, kangaroo 6. Ciao for now, Jersey cow 5. Why you still here, white-tailed deer 4. Just piss off, luna moth 3. Go to hell, red gazelle 2. Kiss my hole, woodland vole 1. Off you fuck, crested duck

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Ten shows about the Tories’ time in power: 10. Meal or No Meal 9. Mock the Weak 8. Never Mind the Buzzwords 7. Whose Lie is it Anyway? 6. Who Wants to Be a Billionaire? 5. Last of the Summer Wine and Cheese 4. White Line of Duty 3. Faulty Powers 2. Have I Got an Excuse for You? 1. 8 Out of 10 Prats

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If you make a big mistake, in regular English you might say "I made a dog's dinner of it," but here are five ways you'd say it if you were a Tory MP... 5. “I made a Mogg’s dinner of it” 4. “I Hancocked it up” 3. “I acted like a right Hunt” 2. “I did a Priti shit job” 1. Just blame the poor

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Ten shows about the Tories’ time in power: 10. Meal or No Meal 9. Mock the Weak 8. Never Mind the Buzzwords 7. Whose Lie is it Anyway? 6. Who Wants to Be a Billionaire? 5. Last of the Summer Wine and Cheese 4. White Line of Duty 3. Faulty Powers 2. Have I Got an Excuse for You? 1. 8 Out of 10 Prats

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This is my new favourite - thank you! Is it a well-known expression, if you don’t mind be asking?

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in turkish we say “götümde ayı bağırıyor” which means “a bear is shouting on my ass”

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Thank you! Is it a common expression, would you say?

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In Italian you say “non do il resto”, ie “I can’t give out any change” like you’re the busiest cashier ever

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Ha - that is excellent! Thank you (I'm well on my way to having enough phrases for a proper list now)

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My favourite phrase for being busy from the US South is “I'm as busy as a one-legged cat in a sandbox.” My favourite Aussie variant is a toss-up between “flat out like a lizard drinking” and “as busy as a centipede on a hot plate.” Anybody know some fun ones from other languages?

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Please correct me if wrong but I believe it’s something like “wie weet waarom ganzen op blote voeten lopen.” I’m mostly used to the visual representation of it as it appears in Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Nederlandse Spreekwoorden (Netherlandish Proverbs)…

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THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: Romania vs Netherlands 🇷🇴 A slang Romanian version of “every cloud has a silver lining” translates to “a kick in the ass, a step forward” vs 🇳🇱 A very old (16th century) way of saying “it is what it is” in Dutch is “who knows why the geese go barefoot?”

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You don't need to pay for an app to turn hard books into easy books, for I will happily do it for free. Here are some examples of my work...

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THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: Portugal vs Slovenia 🇵🇹 In Portuguese, a rollercoaster is called montanha-russa, or “Russian mountain” vs 🇸🇮 In Slovene, a rollercoaster is more commonly known as vlakec smrti, which means “little train of death”

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THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: France vs Belgium 🇫🇷 A French phrase for being down in the dumps is “I’m sad like a meal without cheese” vs 🇧🇪 A Flemish way of saying “this will make you feel better” translates to “this will frog you up”

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THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: England vs Slovakia   🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 If someone comes into the house and leaves the front door open, an English dad might say “were you born in a barn?”   vs   🇸🇰 A Slovak dad is more likely to say “were you born with a yoke up your ass?”

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Hold da helt ferie! I think it’s a very colloquial/outdated one. And maybe “totally take a vacation” would’ve been a better translation?

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My two favourite Swedish idioms are “that’s better than a snail on the eye” for “better than a poke with a sharp stick”, and when someone looks sad “you look like you sold your butter and lost the money” which is a story I just immediately empathise with

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Two of mine are allt löser sig med våld o vaselin (“you can solve everything with violence and Vaseline”) and att glida in på en räkmacka ("to slide in on a shrimp sandwich”), for privilege. But my no. 1 will always be "the wheel is spinning but the hamster is dead" (hence the title of my last book)

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THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: Germany vs Denmark 🇩🇪 A German way of saying OMG, from the 1980s, is Ich glaub mein Hamster bohnert! It means “I think my hamster is waxing the floor!” vs 🇩🇰 My favourite Danish equivalent translates to “take a whole vacation!”

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