What weird idioms/phrases does your language have? - eviltoast

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

  • silly goose meekah@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Some of these are very interesting to me because very similar ones exist in German! Especially “einen Korb geben” (to give a basket) has me intrigued. Does this phrase come from a social norm to give a basket of something to someone you reject?

    Thanks for sharing!