17 absurd Hungarian expressions
Meet 17 of the funniest and craziest Hungarian idioms ranked from mild to weirdly absurd.
- Hungarians don’t “jump for joy”, they are “as happy as a monkey about its tail” (Örül, mint majom a farkának).
- Hungarians don’t say “Bullshit!”, they say “Horse dick!” (Lófasz!)
- Hungarians don’t ask little children “Why are you crying?”, they ask “Why are you giving drinks to the mice?” (Miért itatod az egereket?)
- Hungarians don’t call you “useless”, they say “you’re as little as the roaring in a Mackó cheese” (Kevés vagy, mint mackósajtban a brummogás). Mackó cheese is a type of Hungarian cheese that has a small bear on its label.
- Hungarians don’t say “It’s not worth the effort”, they say “It’s worth as much as a kiss to a dead person” (Annyit ér, mint halottnak a csók).
- Hungarians don’t say “Far, far away”, they say “Behind God’s back” (“Az Isten háta mögött”).
- Hungarian guys don’t say to one another “That chick is a 10″, they say “That’s a bomb woman” (Az egy bombanő”).
- Hungarians won’t say “Once a thief, always a thief”, they’ll say “You can’t make bacon out of a dog” (Kutyaból nem lesz szalonna).
- Hungarians won’t say he’s “good-hearted”, they’ll say “you can spread him on bread” (Kenyérre lehet kenni).
- Hungarians don’t call you “gay”, they call you “warm” (Meleg).
- In Hungarian you don’t say “Cool!”, you say “Perfectly good!” (Tök jó!), “Fat!” (Zsir!), or “King!” (Király!)
- Hungarians don’t yell “Hey, you’re blocking my view!”, they yell “Your dad wasn’t a glassmaker!” (Apád nem volt üveges!)
- Hungarians don’t say “When pigs fly!”, they say “When red snow falls!” (Majd ha piros hó esik!)
- Hungarians don’t ask “What the fuck are you doing?”, they ask “What my dick are you doing?” (Mi a faszomat csinálsz?)
- Hungarians don’t say “It’s not as good as you think”, they say “The fence is not made from sausage” (Nem kolbászból van a kerítés).
- Hungarians don’t say “You son of a bitch!”, they say “You jizz!” (Te geci!)
- Hungarians don’t say “It’s all Greek to me”, they say “It’s Chinese for me” (Ez nekem kínai).
source: www.matadornetwork.com
