Some of you may have already seen this post, originally made by enqueteur and additions by acelaurens and swagalodon. I decided to add the Czech originals and post it on my blog, too, because these are one of the funniest idioms you may come across in our silly little country. Please enjoy it once again!
Favourite Czech idioms translated literally into English:
Gather your five plums and leave! (take all your stuff and get out!)
Seber si svých pět švestek a vypadni!
To have nerves in a bucket (to be mentally drained and stressed)
To receive lentil/soda (to get told off)
That is a back bucket to me (I don’t care)
Mushrooms with vinegar (nothing)
Like a tiny moon on dung (very happy)
Once a Hungarian year (in very long intervals)
Bear service (to cause damage with originally good intentions)
Two asses of sth (lots of sth)
To get drunk with a bread roll (to be satisfied easily)*
Cucumber season (dull season without any news)
it crawls from you like from a hairy blanket (you speak slowly)
Leze to z tebe jak z chlupaté deky
still better than poking the eye with a wire (it could be worse)
Pořád lepší než drátem do oka
did you shit yourself in the cinema? (are you kidding me?)
to walk around hot porridge (to beat around the bush)
it’s splashing on his lighthouse (he’s stupid)
shit out your eye/go to ass (go to hell)
Vyser si oko/jdi do prdele
to burn down someone’s pond (to crush someone’s plans, take away their advantage)
how are your rabbits stomping? (how are you?)
did your bees fly away? (a question you ask someone who is clearly feeling down to find out why)
to march like geese (to walk in a straight line one after another)
i swear on my soul, on dog’s ears and on cat’s conscience (trying to convince someone to believe you)
Přísahám. Na mou duši, na psí uši, na kočičí svědomí.
cheeks like spelling-books (puffy red cheeks)
to look like a wet chicken (to look like shit)
Vypadat jako zmoklá slepice
*I would say that it means ‘to get fooled easily’.
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