• Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works
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    17 days ago

    No, but have some Lithuanian ones.

    Don’t spit in a well as one day you may drink from it.

    Bend the tree while it is young.

    Flax is not yet sown and they are already weaving the linen.

    You will know a horse by his teeth and a man by his talk.

    God gave teeth, God will provide the bread.

    Cat stroking leads to hump raising.

    Old love does not rust.

    The shoemaker is always barefoot.

    Whatever you do, do it well.

    There is no medicine that can cure stupidity.

    Well begun, is half done.

    Idioms

    Spoons after supper

    hang noodles on the ears

    like a fifth leg for a dog

    don’t say ‘wheee’ before jumping over the ditch

    sitting like they were just kissed

    walking like they just sold the land

    catch the corner

    my roof is riding away

    it’s a fact like a pancake

    to pour from an empty container into a leaky one

    go and visit the dwarves

    like a finger in the eye

    it left on the dog’s tail

    cutting a mushroom

    to shepherd the eyes

    wrap words in cotton wool

    to leave someone on ice

    show the goats

    to clarify a relationship

    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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      17 days ago

      Thanks.

      Here’s my favorite bit of Americana.

      “Chin music.”

      Needless chatter, as when sports fans jeer the opposition.

      Or, specifically in baseball, to throw a pitch near the batter’s face to intimidate them.