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Your say - Phrasebook classics

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Phrasebook classics

While learning another language, have you ever come across a phrase or saying you found funny, quirky or very clever?

French

Philip - Riddle
Fiona - Beware translating idioms
Janie - When hens have teeth!
Stephanie - Cool bananas
Sahra - Amazing talent
Malcolm - Idioms can be so weird, sometimes

Spanish

German

Peter - The bride's skin is like cabbage
Jenny - Annoying

Italian

Polish

Barbara - Where two are fighting, the third wins
Emma - Right sentence, wrong phrase

Hungarian

Birgit - My hovercraft is full of eels

Russian

Kathrin - You always meet twice
Kathrin - Saucepan head

Irish

Sean - There's no place like home

Danish

Solveig - Goes down well but doesn't come out easily

Swedish

Sonia - English rats and Swedish owls
Heather - Who stole the till?

Greek

Diana - Realistic

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