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Thursday, November 08, 2007

Weird and wonderful foreign phrases, supposedly real, at the Daily Mirror. Via GeekPress.

Tartle - Scottish: to hesitate when you are introducing someone whose name you can't quite remember.

Vrane Su Mu Popile Mozak - Croatian: crazy, literally "cows have drunk his brain."

Snyavshi Shtany, PO VOLOSAM NE GLADYAT - Russian: once you've taken off your pants it's too late to look at your hair.

Rombhoru - Bengali: a woman having thighs as shapely as banana trees.

Du Kannst Mir Gern Den Buckel Runterrutschen Und Mit Der Zunge Bremsen - Austrian German: abusive insult, literally "you can slide down my hunchback using your tongue as a brake."

Tener Una Cara De Telefono Ocupado - Puerto Rican Spanish: to be angry, literally "to have a face like a busy telephone."

Bablat - Hebrew: baloney, but is an acronym of "beelbool beytseem le-lo takhleet" which means "bothering someone's testicles for no reason."