What are some (non-English) idioms, and what do they mean (both literally and in context)? Odd ones, your favorite ones - any and all are welcome. :)
For example, in English I might call someone a “good egg,” meaning they’re a nice person. Or, if it’s raining heavily, I might say “it’s raining cats and dogs.”
Finnish ones (some sayings here too):
- “Ski into a spruce!” -> Get lost!
- “So the forest answers as one calls into it” -> what comes around goes around
- “If you reach for the spruce you’ll fall into the juniper” -> don’t bite more than you can chew
- “to be like hit on the head with a piece of wood” -> to be baffled
- “it went into the forest” -> something failed
- “to have own cow in the ditch” -> to have their own hidden agenda behind a request or actions
- “to throw the spoon into the corner” -> to die