Cold weather phrases…
7. It’s pig cold (German)
6. It’s duck cold (French)
5. It’s dick cold (Greek)
4. It’s as cold as Russian hell (Finnish)
3. It’s so cold the crow rides the bus (Spanish)
2. It’s so cold that foxes are shitting copper (Turkish)
1. Penguins are begging for tea money (Croatian)
7. It’s pig cold (German)
6. It’s duck cold (French)
5. It’s dick cold (Greek)
4. It’s as cold as Russian hell (Finnish)
3. It’s so cold the crow rides the bus (Spanish)
2. It’s so cold that foxes are shitting copper (Turkish)
1. Penguins are begging for tea money (Croatian)
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The same in Denmark.
But also "hundekoldt"
or
So cold that the penguins...
...put on a coat
or
...are standing in the corner shivering
🥶😀
- It's ibex cold (freddo becco)
- It's dog cold (freddo cane)
Italian
(But maybe the second is just Tuscan!)
Non male per un paese mediterraneo e per la maggior parte caldo!!!!
It's limp-dog cold (frio de renguear cusco)
https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-16960,00.html
It must be cold out, the teenagers are dressed appropriately!
But said with a thick Northern Irish accent
Are we the only ones to use *Baltic" as a noun for "It's cold outside"?
5. So cold hitchhikers are holding up pictures of thumbs
4. Colder than a witch's belt buckle
3. So cold even CEO bonuses are frozen
2. Cold enough to freeze the balls off a pool table
1. So cold the local flasher has been seen describing himself to people
Traditional English is "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey".
Gonna need mi big coat
Starving - my family used to say this for being cold (North East England).
We're more likely to say "Nippy isn't it?" or "It's brassic out there"
Or, and a personal favourite of mine "It's chilly bumbums"
Another good one in English: “Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey”.
Thank you for Tiddely Pom, AA Milne
It's cold like ass😅😅
The orygin of this one is that in the estate houses dog houses were the only rooms without the fireplace for warming up
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Your post recall me a phrase about special type of girls that we called piriguetes: "piriguete não sente frio"
Another crow rides the bus
Det er så koldt, at man får nost på frosserne.
(It is so cold that you get bost on the fralls.)
Geothermal energy ftw!
1. It's colder than a ticket taker's smile (US)
I'm from Los Angeles.
a, Which one is misspelled, the French or the Greek?
It’s bone cold
“Brass monkey weather” is my personal favourite