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”
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🇳🇱 A very old (16th century) way of saying “it is what it is” in Dutch is “who knows why the geese go barefoot?”
Please correct me if wrong but I believe it’s something like “wie weet waarom ganzen op blote voeten lopen.” I’m mostly used to the visual representation of it as it appears in Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Nederlandse Spreekwoorden (Netherlandish Proverbs)…
