Thread 211886063

yo, these guys are dicks

>>211886063 (OP)
Heh some of these are new to me.
By the way OP theres also bulgarian heater and bulgarian job which means the same as the other "jobs"

>>211886063 (OP)
>A MAN with a big ass
Is it true?

>>211886248
thats gay

>>211886063 (OP)
>leaving the english way
I've only ever heard of it as an Irish goodbye (though I've only ever heard yanks say it)

translations are all over the place
shit reddit map

>>211886063 (OP)
Russians REKT

>>211886063 (OP)
I haven't heard anyone say the Russian and Albanian ones, there are several missing
>sit like a (circumcized) turk
Be useless
>pass through like a turkish graveyard
Ignore something
>go (complain) to the Armenian priest
I don't care

>>211886063 (OP)
>Leaving the English way
we also say this in Poland

>>211887185
go back

We have this with the Turkish cemetery and the Swiss clock.
>developed like Albanian tourism
can refer to anything, to a girl who has no tits for example.
>he acts like an Englishman
when someone pretends to be naive and doesn't know something in order to deceive, and then does something beyond all expectations.
We have self-explanatory expressions - >drinks like a Russian
>smokes like a Turk
>smells like a Gypsy
>works like a Negro
>stupid like a Bosnian
When someone is stingy we say they are Jewish. For example: 'he will never pay for a round!
>What a Jew!'
There is a saying
>she is so young, and already a Hungarian/Slovenian
meaning slut.
I think that's all.

Bros, regarding that bulgarian idiom about us... we have the same idiom but about gypsies. Are we.... are we gypsies??

>>211886063 (OP)
I like it.

>>211886063 (OP)
>Russian bar
Might have to start using this one.

>>211887624
>>developed like Albanian tourism
why is this shit so funny

>>211887624
>working like a nigger

kek we use this one, once Milei almost said it on national tv and changed it to "dwarf" at the last moment

>>211886063 (OP)
>balalajka
>to beat up someone
Seems legit

>>211887851
Kek. It's a shame he didn't say that.

>>211886063 (OP)
Here we say "du travail d'arabe" = "an arab job" when something is badly done.

>>211887624
>she is so young, and already a Hungarian/Slovenian
Good one. I didn't know Slovenians have that reputation.

>>211887624
>>she is so young, and already a Hungarian/Slovenian
I like this, such a Balkan train of thought. In the Balkans everything south/east of you is backward and north/west of you is more developed, thus more western, thus women are more liberated, a common stereotype we have of westerners.

>>211886063 (OP)
russian bar is genius

>>211888323
Jew.

>>211887624
>>211887851
>work like a nigger
I'm not clear how they use it in your countries, but, believe it or not, I've only known "working like a nigger" to mean something like engaging in difficult, menial, and unappreciated work.

From the first reference I could find, "Folk Speech From Southeastern Illinois", published in 1946, on page 94:
https://sci-hub.se/10.2307/27649837
>If you work hard "You work like a nigger," or "Work like a slave," or "Work till you are dragged out," "Work like a dog," or "Work like a nigger at an election."

>>211887889
>balalajka
Like the instrument? If so, what's the connection?

>>211888341
>If so, what's the connection?
No idea, seems to be made up

>>211888341
>"Work like a nigger at an election."
What is the origin of this saying?

>>211888341
Yes, that's the meaning, when someone does hard work like a slave. Btw, we don't have the word 'nigger', nor a slang insult for them. We use the word 'black' (crnac) for black people. In Croatian, that saying is 'radim kao crnac'.

>>211888783
Honestly, that one confused me too. I'd guess it's either about how, historically, black candidates for elected office might have otherwise been at a disadvantage, or how black voters would be more likely to have to pass a literacy test before being able to vote. For reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_test#Voting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_clause#Southern_United_States

>>211886308
I have noticed some idioms tend to switch target countries depending on who is saying it. There's apparently an English exit, a French leave, a Polish goodbye, an Irish goodbye and they all mean the same thing.
A similar thing happened with syphilis where it became known as the Neapolitan disease, the French disease or the Polish disease, depending on where a country first got it from.

>>211889167
Not only idioms, this bird is either a Turkish or an Indian chicken depending on the language. However we just borrowed the South Slavic word for hen lmao

>>211887889
The idiom is mistranslated
>I will beat you like a drunk pole beats a Russian balalaika

That doesn't make any sense, nobody leaves without saying bye here.

>>211890270
I remember that phrase from some early Asterix comic book

>>211888206
Slovenians have a reputation for being notoriously stingy.

>>211886063 (OP)
funny as shit man

>>211888258
i don't know anon, you know about the moldovan chicks being whores stereotype

>>211886063 (OP)
>leaving the english way
i do that

>>211887624
is the nigger one supposed to be about them being hardworkers or lazy

>>211892718
Same, I always get too drunk and stop having fun at 1'o clock at parties.

>>211886063 (OP)
romanian idiom is COLD

Half of these are mistranslated. I've heard the Turkish job one as a Bulgarian job and the Russian film as Soviet film.