Thursday, November 08, 2007

Once you've taken off your pants it's too late to look at your hair

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."

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