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Post by jeanne on Jan 28, 2019 0:19:17 GMT 1
Yes, almost the same, the Polish idiom suggests not only spontaneous but also fast and many. E.g., flick jokes or ideas. Our expression for that activity might be "running off at the mouth."  |
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 10, 2019 12:25:45 GMT 1
A new one: to get a cat
Idioms so far, I need yearly revision to know what has been already discussed.
Make somebody into a horse -
To drill somebody a hole in a stomach.
A roll with butter.
Don`t divide skin on the bear.
To make eggs from somebody.
Something is heaven and earth.
50 zlotys doesn`t walk.
To read a book from plank to plank.
1. To tear cats with somebody.
2 To hit somebody from a leaf.
To spit into your chin.
E.g., to buzz sb
To have flies in one`s nose.
Don`t call the wolf out of the forest.
Throwing peas onto the wall.
to let sb into raspberries.
The wrap around cotton.
You will go away on amphibian.
Take yourself into the fist
Intestines/bowels are playing a march
I will be in the socket!
An elephant stamped on someone`s ear
To blow on the cold.
A sinking person catches at a razor.
Let the steam out of your mouth.
To make bigos (hunter`s cabbage stew)
With the flight of a lightning.
To take sth for a good coin.
Let the devils snatch it/you/him/her/them!
One raisin.
You can steal horses with him/her/them.
to promise pears on a willow tree.
to let sb go with bags/cases.
He`s a guy with bones.
What is the connection of gingerbread to a windmill?
Somebody hasn`t dropped from under a magpie`s tail.
He`s a guy with large eggs.
One doesn`t know - to laugh or to weep.
An elephant has trodden on his/her ear.
The country woman didn`t have a problem, ..... ( so she bought herself a little pig).
You will have it like in a bank.
To sit like in a Turkish sermon
To sell sb the Netherlands
You must drink the beer you have brewed.
To have straw in one`s shoes/boots.
To have a soul on one`s shoulder.
To have peas with cabbage in one`s head.
To look like a scarecrow.
To sit like on pins.
To fall on one`s head.
To stand on one`s own feet
Do sth with mad/crazy papers
To be riding on the same cart.
Sb would eat a horse with its hooves.
To lick one`s fingers
to have it/sth in little finger/pinky.
refuse to bend a finger (to do sth)
To sit with folded arms
To promise (sb) gold mountains (just like that, not mountains of gold).
To have a snake in one`s pocket.
a circus on wheels
the fifth wheel on a cart
To do sb a bear`s favour
For the black hour.
an old sparrow
cucumber season
a hand washes a hand
It didn`t even lie next to sth
to break one`s head (over sth)
to stop like a perch in the throat
It`s (like) mustard after lunch/dinner.
for dance and for rosary
to show a claw
to put one`s (all/whole) soul into sth
to put one`s (all/whole) soul into sth
from another parish...
from another barrel....
to view sth with a winked/half closed eye.
to divide a hair into four
and he has just entered the garden, was just about to meet the goose.....
sth has been/was written on the knee.
Sb didn`t say the last word
to lose face
to make a good face/countenance for a bad game.
caps off heads
sb is (like) a patch brother
sth is to sb`s face.
a hamlet/village shut down with planks.
a place where dogs bark with their dupas
one has/will have to/will eat that frog
throw/flick sth out of the sleeve
Here`s my collection from another forum:
from another barrel:
To make big eyes (at sb)
To call sb onto the rug/mat.
To match each other like in a basket of poppy seed.
strike sb like a bull
To wring a cat by its tail.
It is written like an oxen.
A horse would laugh at that.
make sb go with bags
to take it on the chest (chestie)
To wrap pasta/macaroni on ears.
what does it mean to call a male an old horse ?
arms/hands are dropping,
better is the enemy of good.
equal boy/man/chap/guy
To lick one`s fingers
To refuse to bend a finger
Be wise and write poems
the scythe hit the rock. (actually, ran into)
To go out of (one`s) skin (to do sth).
to stand on your eyelashes/ stand on your head.
What kind of a husband is slipper man?
to mix sb with mud.
to sharpen one`s teeth for sth.
a raven won`t peck out another raven`s eye.
to know sth like your own pocket.
You xylophone!
Krakow deal
To shoot a bull.
When sb is called Krakow cent (diminutive centling in the original) ), what does it mean?
To look at sth through fingers.
Sth is trickling through fingers.
Here the penguin`s beak is bending
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Post by jeanne on Feb 18, 2019 0:59:41 GMT 1
Can you use that one in a sentence, please? |
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 19, 2019 22:17:39 GMT 1
Can you use that one in a sentence, please? But that will reveal the secret. Things are piling on me! - I think I am gonna get a cat. |
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Post by jeanne on Feb 19, 2019 22:22:13 GMT 1
Things are piling on me! - I think I am gonna get a cat. Well, then, it should mean that when life is troubling, one needs some comfort to get one through...so having a cat would be a comfort...something soft and cuddly to hold and pet... |
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 19, 2019 22:25:24 GMT 1
Things are piling on me! - I think I am gonna get a cat. Well, then, it should mean that when life is troubling, one needs some comfort to get one through...so having a cat would be a comfort...something soft and cuddly to hold and pet... I think you are joking. Getting a cat in your suggestion means adding another problem to the previous ones. No, it means to go crazy because you can`t cope with pressure. |
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Post by jeanne on Feb 19, 2019 22:30:48 GMT 1
Well, then, it should mean that when life is troubling, one needs some comfort to get one through...so having a cat would be a comfort...something soft and cuddly to hold and pet... I think you are joking. Getting a cat in your suggestion means adding another problem to the previous ones. No, it means to go crazy because you can`t cope with pressure. What??? I honestly don't see the connection between getting a cat and going crazy. I know some people who might go crazy if they got a cat, but not enough people to generate an idiom in the language around the idea! p.s. - I'm not joking... |
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 19, 2019 22:34:58 GMT 1
What??? I honestly don't see the connection between getting a cat and going crazy. p.s. - I'm not joking... But you have always been the cleverest guesser in this thread and I got used to it. |
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Post by jeanne on Feb 19, 2019 22:40:54 GMT 1
What??? I honestly don't see the connection between getting a cat and going crazy. p.s. - I'm not joking... But you have always been the cleverest guesser in this thread and I got used to it. Thanks, but "cleverest guesser" is not a difficult title to achieve...I'm the only guesser in this thread!!!  Are you going to kindly explain the connection between going crazy and getting a cat, or do I have to suffer in ignorance??  |
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 19, 2019 22:46:56 GMT 1
Are you going to kindly explain the connection between going crazy and getting a cat, or do I have to suffer in ignorance?? Aaa, I thought it was obvious. Cats sometimes go crazy, with that running all over the place and mieoawuiuing loudly. |
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Post by jeanne on Feb 19, 2019 22:52:24 GMT 1
Are you going to kindly explain the connection between going crazy and getting a cat, or do I have to suffer in ignorance?? Aaa, I thought it was obvious. Cats sometimes go crazy, with that running all over the place and mieoawuiuing loudly. That thought crossed my mind, but I thought the wording would be different like "I'm going to become a cat" or "I'm going to join the cats." "Getting" a cat implies obtaining something outside of oneself, rather than implying an internal (mental) change. |
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 19, 2019 22:57:14 GMT 1
"Getting" a cat implies obtaining something outside of oneself, rather than implying an internal (mental) change. But it is exactly obtaining sth from outside, namely from the external pressure when life becomes tough |
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Post by jeanne on Feb 19, 2019 23:01:34 GMT 1
"Getting" a cat implies obtaining something outside of oneself, rather than implying an internal (mental) change. But it is exactly obtaining sth from outside, namely from the external pressure when life becomes tough Somehow this just doesn't make any sense, linguistically or otherwise, to me!  |
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 20, 2019 21:33:40 GMT 1
But it is exactly obtaining sth from outside, namely from the external pressure when life becomes tough Somehow this just doesn't make any sense, linguistically or otherwise, to me! Try two with fingers To look at sth through fingersSth trickles through fingers |
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Post by jeanne on Feb 20, 2019 23:28:42 GMT 1
Somehow this just doesn't make any sense, linguistically or otherwise, to me! Try two with fingers To look at sth through fingersDoes it mean not to have a good/clear understanding of a situation? Maybe...an opportunity slips away from you...? |
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 21, 2019 21:02:19 GMT 1
Try two with fingers To look at sth through fingersDoes it mean not to have a good/clear understanding of a situation? Maybe...an opportunity slips away from you...? Nope, it means that you close an eye to sth because you don`t care. Yes, slips but not opportunity, sth more important. |
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Post by romulus on May 24, 2019 11:48:53 GMT 1
,,You won't dig up a horseradish with your d....k"
That expression really IS around, I use it often. So very wise, so very true.
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Post by jeanne on Jun 18, 2019 16:24:21 GMT 1
Here`s my collection from another forum: from another barrel: Someone is from another barrel if they have a totally different way of thinking, or has a very different outlook than you do. The English expression "to make eyes at" someone means you are attracted to them and flirt with them by the way you look at them. This might mean the same, or it could mean you are surprised by what they have done/said, or you "look askance" at them. Getting called on the carpet in English means you are summoned by your boss/superior and reprimanded for a misdeed. This probably means to look like someone else, or to think like them. To attack viciously, but I don't know if it means physically or verbally. ...no clue... Something is poorly, clumsily written. |
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Post by Bonobo on Jun 22, 2019 8:03:32 GMT 1
Yes to most except: strike sb like a bull - to hit sb with one`s head, like a bull does. To wring a cat by its tail - to twist things around in oder to wriggle out of sth, usually criticism or informal accusations. It is written like an oxen - sorry, not oxen but ox, it means clearly with big letters because ox is big! |
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Post by jeanne on Jun 23, 2019 0:18:03 GMT 1
Yes to most except: strike sb like a bull - to hit sb with one`s head, like a bull does. To wring a cat by its tail - to twist things around in oder to wriggle out of sth, usually criticism or informal accusations. It is written like an oxen - sorry, not oxen but ox, it means clearly with big letters because ox is big! Well, that wasn't too bad of an outcome for me!...just 3 wrong. I plan on working on some of the others when I get a chance. |
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Post by Bonobo on Nov 16, 2019 6:57:53 GMT 1
In direct translation, this newest Polish idiom (about one year old) means: the female resident of the city of Cieszyn - (beginning with a small letter)
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Post by Bonobo on Nov 16, 2019 20:01:15 GMT 1
We had to break one`s head over sth, now a different one: to break hands/arms (over sb/sth).
Hint: The process of "breaking" takes place in elbows.
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Post by naukowiec on Nov 20, 2019 21:16:54 GMT 1
to break hands/arms (over sb/sth). To hug someone, wrap arms around someone/something? |
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Post by jeanne on Nov 20, 2019 22:00:56 GMT 1
to break hands/arms (over sb/sth). To hug someone, wrap arms around someone/something? I'm so glad someone else is guessing at some of these idioms! Thank you, naukowiec! p.s. Do you live in Poland? |
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Post by naukowiec on Nov 20, 2019 22:09:09 GMT 1
I'm so glad someone else is guessing at some of these idioms! Guess I'm a sucker for punishment jeanne! Not sure if my answer is the right one though! I live in the UK, although I've been to Poland many times |
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Post by jeanne on Nov 20, 2019 22:21:18 GMT 1
I'm so glad someone else is guessing at some of these idioms! Guess I'm a sucker for punishment jeanne! Not sure if my answer is the right one though! I live in the UK, although I've been to Poland many times I'm never sure if my answers are the right ones...mine are really just wild guesses. Bonobo puts so much effort into posting these, that I really want to try and respond the best I can! At least having traveled to Poland many times, you have a definite advantage over me and my often pathetic guesses! I've never been there...  |
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Post by naukowiec on Nov 20, 2019 22:34:12 GMT 1
mine are really just wild guesses At times so are mine! you have a definite advantage over me and my often pathetic guesses! I've never been there... Having been to Poland doesn't make me an expert on Polish idioms, but sometimes they are similar to English ones. I'm sure your guesses aren't pathetic either! Maybe one day you'll get to go to Poland I've never been to the US..... |
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Post by jeanne on Nov 21, 2019 1:11:53 GMT 1
Maybe one day you'll get to go to Poland Maybe...but in the meantime this forum is the closest I can get to Poland!! As I always tell Bonobo...this is my window into Poland! |
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Post by naukowiec on Nov 21, 2019 20:18:29 GMT 1
.this is my window into Poland! Well, there's loads of information on here from what I can see, it will take me a long time to look at all the threads for sure! You have also made a significant contribution to the forum
In the meantime, here is another idiom to guess:
Run like a cat with a bladder
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Post by Bonobo on Dec 1, 2019 20:43:46 GMT 1
Run like a cat with a bladder
Yes, I have always liked it. To be anxiously and restlessly on the run, overactive. How about this one: to look for the wind in the fieldWell, that wasn't too bad of an outcome for me!...just 3 wrong. Yes, that was a good result. To hug someone, wrap arms around someone/something? Sorry, no, it means to get desperate over a situation or sb`s behaviour, e.g., mother breaks her arms over her unruly son etc. The coach breaks his arms over lousy national team footballers who lose with a playground team from the outback.  |
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