I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World by Jag Bhalla

Author:Jag Bhalla
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Linguistics, Linguistics - General, Humor, Translating & Interpreting, Composition & Creative Writing, Comparative And Contrastive Linguistics, English as a Second Language, Foreign Language Study, Sociolinguistics, Slang & dialect humour, Literacy, Language Arts & Disciplines, Grammar, Language, Almanacs, Idioms, Dictionaries, Language Arts, Language: history & general works, Reference, Dictionaries - Idioms & Slang, General, Humour: Collections & General
ISBN: 9781426204586
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2009-06-16T07:00:00+00:00

SEVEN

Have seven lives like dogs: have nine lives (Italian)

To sweat seven shirts: to work hard (Italian)

To be in seventh heaven: to be on cloud nine (Italian and French)

Seven mouths and eight tongues: all talking at the same time (Chinese)

Seven inches in a forehead: as wise as Solomon (Russian)

Smoke belches from the seven openings on the head

Chinese: very angry

Standing there like a seven of spades: looking stupid (German)

To vilify ancestors to the seventh generation: to curse severely (Hindi)

Having seven husbands: a loose woman (Hindi)

The seven utterances: the marriage vows (Hindi)

Smoke belches from the seven openings on the head: very angry (Chinese)

Seven trades but no luck: proverb (Arabic)

Seven Fridays in a week: can’t make up your mind (Russian)

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