What are some (non-English) idioms, and what do they mean (both literally and in context)? Odd ones, your favorite ones - any and all are welcome. :)

For example, in English I might call someone a “good egg,” meaning they’re a nice person. Or, if it’s raining heavily, I might say “it’s raining cats and dogs.”

  • owsei@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    tnh I think the spilled milk saying is more about things that you can’t control / already happened.

    and the Brazilian saying is more like “it’s ok to let a little more milk get spilled”, however I can’t think of a nice way of saying that.

    edit: thinking more about that, maybe the milk saying can be used for this, but not necessarily