THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: Romania vs Netherlands
🇷🇴 A slang Romanian version of “every cloud has a silver lining” translates to “a kick in the ass, a step forward”
vs
🇳🇱 A very old (16th century) way of saying “it is what it is” in Dutch is “who knows why the geese go barefoot?”
there is a very peculiarly optimistic and direct mindset behind it, similar to the one seen on this roadsign:
welcome to the town of
OCNA MUREȘ
drive carefully
we have a cemetery BUT NO HOSPITAL!
