Italian common saying -- in english (for fun)

[milanfahrnholz]

Hobbyhorse

[DZ-Jay]

Here’a another funny phrase we have in Spanish:

In the manner of removed underwear (“A calzón quita’o”).

That one is very common.

[Gffp]

@DZ-Jay

In the manner of removed underwear (“A calzón quita’o”).

Ahah! I bet it means in a very sincere way, sincerely speaking!

[milanfahrnholz]

@DZ-Jay

That one is very common.

I find that very easy to believe.

[Ema]

@milanfahrnholz

Hobbyhorse

Never heard it.

Google translates it with another interesting italian saying: “chiodo fisso”, which means fixed nail, stuck nail.
It depicts a recurrent, prevailing and often intrusive idea.

[milanfahrnholz]

@Ema

Google translates it with another interesting italian saying: “chiodo fisso”, which means fixed nail, stuck nail.

It depicts a recurrent, prevailing and often intrusive idea.

That makes no sense. But what you described above sounds exactly like the description of hobbyhorse(“Steckenpferd” in german).

[DZ-Jay]

@Gffp

@DZ-Jay

In the manner of removed underwear (“A calzón quita’o”).

Ahah! I bet it means in a very sincere way, sincerely speaking!

Close! It means to get something done with no reservations, like to just get in and do it.

We have another one that is for when you say something candidly or without filters, brutally honest:

Without hair on the tongue (“sin pelos en la lengua”).

That one I believe transcends barriers and is on every Spanish-speaking country. Perhaps Italian has the same?

[Gffp]

@DZ-Jay

Without hair on the tongue (“sin pelos en la lengua”).

That one I believe transcends barriers and is on every Spanish-speaking country. Perhaps Italian has the same?

“Senza peli sulla lingua”
“Non avere peli sulla lingua” To not have hairs on tongue.
Sure, that’s exactly the same!

[DZ-Jay]

A very funny translation we use when speaking “bad English,” is to say:

Drink a chair (“tome asiento”), because the form of the verb “to take” is also use for “to drink.”

[DZ-Jay]

@Gffp

@DZ-Jay

Without hair on the tongue (“sin pelos en la lengua”).

That one I believe transcends barriers and is on every Spanish-speaking country. Perhaps Italian has the same?

“Senza peli sulla lingua”
“Non avere peli sulla lingua” To not have hairs on tongue.
Sure, that’s exactly the same!

I thought so! Perhaps it’s very old and it is in the origins of all Romance languages…

[Ema]

@DZ-Jay

Without hair on the tongue (“sin pelos en la lengua”).

That one I believe transcends barriers and is on every Spanish-speaking country. Perhaps Italian has the same?

We have it, indeed.

We also have a joke about it:

“I have no hair on my tongue. And if I have it, well, that’s not mine”.

[milanfahrnholz]

@DZ-Jay

Romance languages

The most global one of all!

@Ema

And if I have it, well, that’s not mine

Whoever came up with that must have been a cunning linguist.

[DZ-Jay]

@Ema

We have it, indeed.

We also have a joke about it:

“I have no hair on my tongue. And if I have it, well, that’s not mine”.

That’s funny! It will work just as well in Spanish. I will use it in the future!!

[Ema]

Always happy to help.

It is also used as a cheap insult for a girl who says bad things about other people:

“Oh, that girl sure has no hair on her tongue! And if she has it…”

[DZ-Jay]

@Ema

Always happy to help.

It is also used as a cheap insult for a girl who says bad things about other people:

“Oh, that girl sure has no hair on her tongue! And if she has it…”

Well sure. That double-standard appears to cross cultures!

[Ema]

@milanfahrnholz

Whoever came up with that must have been a cunning linguist.

Yes, that was the idea.

[milanfahrnholz]

btw if I´m getting less than 5 likes for that joke, I´ll mark that down as my most underrated post ever.

[DZ-Jay]

@milanfahrnholz

btw if I´m getting less than 5 likes for that joke, I´ll mark that down as my most underrated post ever.

That’s *beep*ing funny! Go ahead and *beep*ing laugh, you *beep*er!!

[milanfahrnholz]

Thanks a lot, I´m available for matinee´s and children´s birthday parties, as well…

[ZakPhoenixMcKracken]

This thread is taking a bad fold [sta prendendo una brutta piega]

That is, is going to a direction that was not intended to.