How to Swear Around the World by Jason Sacher

Author:Jason Sacher
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781452121833
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC

Con toda la barba!

“With all of the beard!”

No man is complete without a long, fulsome, and bushy beard. Therefore, if something— a movie, a meal, a used car—has all of the beard, it is complete, perfect, great.

SWAHILI

Atekaye maji mtoni asitukane mamba.

“One who draws water at the river shouldn’t curse the crocodile.”

After watching someone shoot themselves in the foot, either lit-erally or figuratively, this phrase is a perfect capper.

Kufa kwa mkundu mavi hutawanyika.

“The death of the anus scatters shit.”

Scatological, yes. But it is an effective way to deride fair-weather friends and hangers-on.

SWEDISH

Järnvägar!

“Railways!”

Notwithstanding any modern person’s understandable frustration with the state of the railroad industry, this common oath is a euphemism for Jävlar!, which means “Damn!”

Gå som katten kring het gröt.

“To go like a cat around hot porridge.”

To dillydally, to be unnecessarily nervous.

Det var skit att int dynga räckte över hela tegen!

“Shit! Not enough dung for the whole field!”

Sometimes, even the best and most polite one of us farts at an inappropriate time. To make jest of it, the Swedes say this little phrase.

Ying kratai

“Shoot the rabbit.”

To “shoot the rabbit” is to urinate in public.

TAMIL (INDIA)

Tenga thalayan!

“Coconut-headed one!”

Trust us, this sounds worse in Tamil than it does in English.

TURKISH

Bir avuç toprak olmak!

“Become a handful of soil!”

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