Lithuanian: Kas ant kito sako, tas ant savęs pasisako
English: what you say about another, you say about yourself.
collected: Kaunas, Lithuania (01-10-2016)
origin: from grade school. meaning “talk to the hand.”
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Lithuanian: šliaužk tarybiniais vamzdžiais
English: Slither in Soviet pipes
collected: Kaunas, Lithuania (01-10-2016)
origin: she read it on the internet, from an archive of old Lithuanian jokes from or about the Soviet Union.
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Lithuanian: tavo akys, kaip žvaigždės – viena aukščiau, kita žemiau.
English: your eyes are like stars. one above one below.
collected: Kaunas, Lithuania (01-10-2016)
origin: heard it used within a group of friends. play on a pickup line.
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in English only: if I was a cunt I would look like you
collected: Kaunas, Lithuania (01-10-2016)
origin: he is a baseball player and used this as a comeback against an opponent during a match in the UK.
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Lithuanian: užčiaupk srėbtuvę
English: shut your strainer
collected: Kaunas, Lithuania (01-10-2016)
origin: common Lithuania-style insult. play on words. meaning “shut up” but also that your mouth looks like a strainer.
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Lithuanian: Pasikeisk plūgus
English: change your plows
collected: Kaunas, Lithuania (01-10-2016)
origin: common Lithuania-style insult. meaning shoes look like ploughs, covered in dirt
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Lithuanian: kasyk riešutus
English: scratch your nuts
collected: Kaunas, Lithuania (01-10-2016)
origin: common in Lithuania to invent comments like this, with puns, to call people stupid – meaning your are thinking with your nuts.
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Lithuanian: Krapštyk varškę
English: scratch (your) curd
collected: Kaunas, Lithuania (01-10-2016)
origin: common in Lithuania to invent comments like this, with puns (kurd = brains), to call people stupid
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Finnish: Senkin homeinen tiskirätti
English: you moldy dish cloth
collected: Vaasa, Finland (01-23-2016)
origin: from a scene in the Moomin animated TV series (circa early 1990s) in which the Moomins have to defeat a killer plant by insulting it over and over again.
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Finnish: Älynlahjasi ovat täysin mitättömät
English: your intelligence is completely insignificant
collected: Vaasa, Finland (01-23-2016)
origin: from a scene in the Moomin animated TV series (circa early 1990s) in which the Moomins have to defeat a killer plant by insulting it over and over again.