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Originally posted by molly bloom
'to kill the goose that lays the golden egg'
'robbing Peter to pay Paul'
I have only heard of these two. Our equivalent of the latter phrase is "robbing the Dutch to give tribute to the French."
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Originally posted by molly bloom
Some British English phrases for the bemusement of non-English speakers:
Exhibiting our love of our European neighbours:
'to take French leave'
'engaging in Spanish practices'
'a Dutch auction'
'a Dutch uncle'
'Dutch courage'
'to go Dutch'
'castles in Spain'
'it's all Greek to me'
'jerry-built' although seeming on the face of it to perhaps refer to the Germans (jerry=Germans) seems to derive from the same root as 'jury', as in 'jury-rigged'.
You forgot "French letter" (excellently, the French equivalent is "une capote anglaise"), "double Dutch" (now also a brand of lager), "Chinese burn" and "give someone the Spanish archer".
You forgot "French letter" (excellently, the French equivalent is "une capote anglaise"), "double Dutch" (now also a brand of lager), "Chinese burn" and "give someone the Spanish archer".
If I'm not mistaken, the "french disease" (syphilis) is called the "English disease" in france too.
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Originally posted by molly bloom
I can't think of any pejorative English phrases with the word 'Belgian' in.
An old Monty Python skit raised the very same problem. As I recall, in search of a proper derogatory term they rejected both "the Sprouts" and "the Phlegms", eventually settling for "miserable fat Belgian bastards".
Originally posted by alva
Another fun one is that the french say 15 days when they mean 14.
15 jours = two weeks.
We have the same thing for 1 week, which is referred to as 8 days. "PÃ¥ mandag 8 dage" (Monday 8 days) means a week from next Monday. But two weeks is still 14 days, as it should be.
During the boycot of anything French back in the "1999 anti-nuclear bomb testing in the pacific" days, my wife and I didn't drink any French wine, drive any French cars or eat any artichokes. Really, we didn't even give any French massage to each other... That sucked.
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