Idioms

Meme in a format "chads vs soyaks":

Chads - Polish idioms

  1. Whore will not rip off head off of a whore
  2. You ask a boar if they shits in the woods
  3. Flies are pooping, spring is coming
  4. Grandma's shitting has ended

Soyaks - English Idioms

  1. Every cloud has a silver lining
  2. In the eyeof the beholder (with image of soyakish dnd beholder)
  3. Once in a blue moon
  4. Elehant in the room (image of soyak elephant)
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roguetrick@lemmy.world · 96 pts · 1y (13 replies)

Does the Pope shit in the woods?

skulblaka@sh.itjust.works · 43 pts · 1y

My favorite variation on this I ever heard came from one of my coworkers a few jobs ago. I forget the exact context, but:

"Hey [Name], can you get this done?"

"Can the Pope's dick fit through a donut?"

"....I don't know?"

"Exactly 😎👉"

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 1y (5 replies)

People in glass houses sink ships

RavuAlHemio@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y (2 replies)

People in glass houses should go shit in the basement.

chaogomu@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Do people in glass houses shit in the woods?

Klear@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

Does the pope live in a glass house?

WordBox@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y

A penny saved is worth two in the bush.

(This mix and match shit has got to go)

theneverfox@pawb.social · 12 pts · 1y

Loose lips shouldn't throw stones

jewbacca117@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
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dwemthy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

Does a bear shit in the Pope's hat?

Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Sometimes

archonet@lemy.lol · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Why you keep askin' me that? Where his holiness does his business, is his business.

roguetrick@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

All we had to do was follow the damn train CJ

hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Does he?

hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 1y

SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 44 pts · 1y (4 replies)

English idiom in the vein of Polish shit idioms:

Stack wishes in one hand and shit in the other and see which one piles up first.

First time I heard a variation of it was from Mike Nelson on MST3K. He said crap instead of shit, obviously.

dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

My family has always used "shit in one hand and wish in the other, see which one's ready first"

xorollo@leminal.space · 1 pts · 1y
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hansolo@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y

This is the best thing I've seen online in a week.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 1y

I prefer that one to the other one that means the same thing:

If wishes were fishes, we'd have some to fry.

HerrVorragend@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Is Grandma ok?!

SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 26 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Yeah, it means shit's gonna hit the fan

Benjaben@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Lmao but why? Are Polish folks especially concerned about the bathroom habits of their elders?!

Edit to add: before even knowing what it meant this one was my favorite.

Zentron@lemm.ee · 33 pts · 1y

To share the best idiom from ex yu: "you fucked a hedgehog"

funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 1y (4 replies)

English ones:

go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut

it's a cunt hair away

to piss in the wind

shove it up your arse

Randelung@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Shit hits the fan

LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Up shits creek

No fucks given.

Couldn't give a fuck.

loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y
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tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1y

Why don't you take a flying fuck at the mooooooooooooon?

salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The early bird in the hand that feeds is worth a thousand words

jaybone@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

The early bird flu catches the brain worm.

shneancy@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y (8 replies)

huh? what are the original idioms? i only ever heard the boar one (but the wolf version)

SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 1y (7 replies)
  1. Kurwa kurwie Ƃba nie urwie
  2. Pytasz dzika czy sra w lesie
  3. Srali muchy będzie wiosna (needed to google it as a native polish speaker)
  4. SkoƄczyƂo się babci sranie
riodoro1@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Im polish and I don’t know the last one.

SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 1y (1 reply)

now you do

Siegfried@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

What do they mean? They are super funny

Paddzr@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Basically "they're finally done spewing crap" as in talking nonsense etc.

Matriks404@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I am Polish and I've only heard the first one, maybe once or twice lol.

hOrni@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y

Must be regional. I'm Polish and haven't heard the first one.

shneancy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

huh! sƂyszaƂem tylko drugie

hOrni@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y

"When You're born a whore You won't die a canary." "You are getting to it like a dog to a hedgehog."

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 1y

We've got "shit or get off the pot"

LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 1y (6 replies)

I definitely need context for "grandma's sitting has ended"

SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 1y (5 replies)

means "I am enraged" can be said e.g. by mom to children

LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

If I'd had a million guesses I wouldn't have guessed that and yet it makes perfect sense, thank you

SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1y

no problemo

Paddzr@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Are you sure? Because to me this means someone has finished spewing bullshit. Or something annoying has finally come to an end.

Due to the respect for the elder, you let them finish, but you know it's nonsense.

SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y

yeah, you are right. "I have had enough" is a better translation (Epic reference XD)

Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1y

So Sportsfreund, jetzt hat die Oma ausgeschissen!

Krauerking@lemy.lol · 9 pts · 1y

My great grandmother that had one that was:

Stop masturbating under that apple tree.

Maybe sounded better in Polish.

Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y (2 replies)

If you’re trying to mock English idioms then those aren’t even close to the worse.

How about:

“I screwed the pooch on this one”

tiredofsametab@fedia.io · 2 pts · 1y

Hey, you're the one fucking this goat; I'm just holding the horns.

SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y

I'm not the meme was sent to mw

nuko147@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y (3 replies)
  1. We (greeks) have the same about bears not boars. lmao
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Same in German and actually I think I've heard that one in English too

jaybone@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Yes, in English we have the expression “does a bear shit in the woods?” Which is asked in response to some other question where the answer is clearly “yes.”

Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y

Yup same here

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Hungarian idioms:

"SzĂŒljĂ©l sĂŒnt!" / "Go and give birth to a hedgehog!"

"Ez még a kutyånak se kell." / "Not even the dog wants this."

"Az isten bassza meg!" / "God, fuck it!"

seggturkasz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Don't sugarcoat it. That is originaly "szarjĂĄl sĂŒnt", meaning shit out a hedgehog...

seggturkasz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

And if you want something more disturbing, how about "kutyából nem lesz szalonna!" (You can't make bacon out of a dog). Or "itt a tavasz, dagad a fasz" (spring time is here, the dicks are swollen). "terhesen nem vág orrba a lengƑ ajtó" (the door wont slam in your face if you are pregnant).

Sidhean@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Grandma's shitting has ended.

SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y

oh, it has

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
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