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>It’s horseradish to me (Russian) Well, that's a one way to say it for sure, but that's almost the most delicate way, lol.
The story goes that it came from chemistry, where a litmus paper is purple in a neutral liquid, so a person does not react in any way.
In Polish, it’s “mam to w dupie”, or “I have it up my ass”, which actually sounds painful/rather a lot of effort about something you’re indifferent to.
Other options: - wisi mi to [i powiewa] = it hangs of me [and waves around] - mam to w nosie = I have it in my nose - to nikogo = this [matters to] nobody (this is actually pretty funny but can't translate it to English, the joke is that nobody in this particular case only applies to several possible verbs, only a few of them apply to groups of people, and the case also encodes negation - so saying "nikogo" (nobody i…
(Another less vulgar, if somewhat irrelevant, alternative is “ani ziębi, ani grzeje”, or “it neither chills me nor warns me up”).
- Rien à foutre : "Nothing to cum for"
- Ca m'en touche une sans m'en faire bouger l'autre: "It touches one of my balls without moving the other one". Actually popularize by French President Chirac :)
- Je m'en branle : "I wank about it"
Seems like involving sexual organs is pretty much international.
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Roman Empire acquired almost every piece of land in Europe, so that story is not quite accurate about the power and wealth ;) But it's entertaining, of course - thanks!
> Roman Empire acquired almost every piece of land in Europe Depends on what you mean by "almost" and "Europe" I guess. They never conquered (all of) present day Germany, Poland, Scotland or Ireland. None of the entirety of Scandinavia, or the Baltic states, etc. At the peak of the Roman Empire, the Iron Age had been going for about 400 years in Northern Europe, so it was clearly inhabited and not completely backward…
The power of the Roman Empire was extraordinary - that was my only point.
I believe there’s also Russian/Ukrainian “It’s as high as my dick”.
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I'm Flemish and I use it a lot, actually. "Dat kan mijn reet roesten.", it has a great ring to it.
I'm from the Antwerp region, and also never heard of that expression. What is actually the Flemish expression for this? "Den boom in" (=up the tree) is the closed one I could find.
As an italian from (near) Rome, I feel offended we're not getting the recognition we deserve for this! The expression for variations of "who cares" would be "Sticazzi" (~= "these dicks") and is a particularly important expression in roman culture! "Not caring" is core to our being, in most bad and good ways :) There's even a short story whose origin I can't recall: When God finished making the world, God was looking…
> 6. I don't give a frostbitten onion (Romanian) Never heard anything even close. The usual is "ma doare-n pula" which translates as "it hurts in my dick", or, "da-o-n pula" = "put it / send it in dick" if you're talking about something/somebody. Or you can just say "pula" (dick) in the correct context would translate the same. EDIT: Forgot to mention the "censored", non-vulgar version: "ma doare tare" = "it hurts mu…