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In Finnish we have "kissanristiäiset" (literally means a cat's christening), which means some trivial and meaningless celebration/event.

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[–] Flumsy@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In Germany, we have:

"To not have all mugs in the cupboard anymore" ("Nicht mehr alle Tassen im Schrank haben") which translates to doing something incredibly stupid/crazy

"To search yourself a wolf" ("sich einen Wolf suchen) which means to search for something extensively and in the end unsuccesfully.

"To add one additional tooth" ("einen Zahn zulegen"), meaning to hurry, to do something faster.

"To defeat your inner pigdog" ("seinen inneren Schweinehund besiegen" - to get over one's lazyness, to stop procrastinating

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[–] Alami@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

"public static void main string args", which translates to "i am going to start speaking now"

[–] norgur@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

For German, there is a really cool series of YouTube Shorts starting with this one:

https://youtube.com/shorts/Cod-d9hh55c?si=f481mc2DC0uYQTEt

[–] rockyTron@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Not mine but I had a Dutch professor who would say "it's like washing duck's feet" to refer to something that was a pointless exercise or wasted effort. I always thought it was funny but can't find anything on the Internet about it now so perhaps it's not very common.

[–] Snowman44@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm not Thai, but they have an idiom that something will happen one afternoon in their next reincarnation.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

english:

"daddy" is some older man you're sexually attracted to

also, "daddy" is your biological father

[–] StarManta@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you’re in a scenario where you need to specify between them, “zaddy” is a replacement for the former

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