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.”

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    8 months ago

    You reminded me one in Latin in the same spirit: kalendis graecis, or “in the Greek calends”.

    Calends were the first day of the month in the Roman calendar, there was no Greek equivalent, so that meant simply “never”.