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TeffleThreads: 28 Posts: 2,105 Joined: Aug 26, 10 ♂	Jan 12, 11, 14:56 #31
Cardno85: I use it, but only if I am trying to be amusing by using an out of date idiom... ; ) Plus, it's nicer than saying it's pishing down, no? Funny enough I don't really say that. Not that I'm averse to using the word generally mind you. I think my default is usually "lashing"

Cardno85Threads: 33 Posts: 858 Joined: Jul 11, 08 MEMBER ♂	Jan 13, 11, 01:22 #32
Teffle: ; ) I also use a "Glasgow University" accent while saying it.

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Edited by: strzyga Jan 13, 11, 01:47 #33

I wonder if there is any English idiom for kiełbasa wyborcza, meaning all the promises and nice gestures that politicians make before elections?

Other idioms I like: dziad o gruszce, baba o pietruszce - grandpa talking about a pear and grandma about a parsley - for miscommunication

wlazł na gruszkę, rwał pietruszkę, cebula leciała - he climbed a pear tree, picked parsley and onions fell down - for somebody talking nonsense

gruszki na wierzbie - pears on a willow tree - illusions

am I hungry, or what?..

z_dariusThreads: 22 Posts: 5,091 Joined: Oct 18, 07 ♂	Jan 13, 11, 03:43 #34
another couple funny ones: puścić bąka - (to release a bumble bee): to fart puścić tajniaka - (to release a secret agent/an undercover agent): to fart quietly

TeffleThreads: 28 Posts: 2,105 Joined: Aug 26, 10 ♂	Jan 13, 11, 10:22 #35
Cardno85: I also use a "Glasgow University" accent while saying it. Would that be "cats n' dugs" or the "pishing" part?

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Edited by: MrEp Jan 15, 11, 10:20 #36

zetigrek:

but to fit like a fist to an eye means that something doesn't fit really...

Same here:
Pasować jak kwiatek do kożucha (to fit like a flower to a sheepskin coat)
Pasować jak wół do karocy (to fit like an ox to a coach)

Some other nice idioms:
Udawać Greka (to pretend to be a Greek) - to pretend that you don't understand a thing
Siedzieć jak na tureckim kazaniu (to sit like on a Turkish sermon) - to listen to something, while being unable to understand a thing

Polonius3Threads: 1,005 Posts: 4,833 Joined: Apr 11, 08 ♂	Jan 15, 11, 12:37 #37
noreenb Isn't 'summa summarum' the equivalent of 'the bottom line'?

noreenbThreads: 4 Posts: 1,082 Joined: Apr 22, 09 ♀	Jan 22, 11, 19:16 #38
Polonius3 Isn't 'summa summarum' the equivalent of 'the bottom line'? Summa summarum, my favourite example of Latin saying, "suma sum" lub "wszystko razem"... Good times of my life, when I was learning Latin are in front of my mind now. Thanks for that. Yes, it is. :)

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