The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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