A list of the five best phrases I've come across for strong winds:
5. Blowing half a pelican (Danish)
4. Blowing hats and hay (Norwegian)
3. Blowing a hoolie (Scots)
2. Wind so strong it could blow a pig on to its hind legs (Estonian)
1. It’s only wind when the sheep no longer have curls (German)
5. Blowing half a pelican (Danish)
4. Blowing hats and hay (Norwegian)
3. Blowing a hoolie (Scots)
2. Wind so strong it could blow a pig on to its hind legs (Estonian)
1. It’s only wind when the sheep no longer have curls (German)
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Violets are red
Everything is RED
But there are no cows nearby, so i can't check whether their horns were blown away.
They say : « Un vent à décorner les taureaux. »
A wind to dehorn bulls
#funfacts
gwynt traed y meirw (wind of the feet of the dead) "the east wind".. when all burials were ‘head to the West’ .. specifically for a cold wind
…blowing the numbers off the sail
…making whitecaps in my coffee
My grandmother, from Atlanta, GA:
…blowing the ears off a donkey
College friend from Michigan:
…Yugo Alert on the Mackinac Bridge
Something about the origin of the word being French.
Northern Germany is an entirely different place (affectionate)
But even our TV and radio stations pick it up as a kind of meme every once in a while. 😄
Nass ist erst, wenn die Heringe auf Augenhöhe vorbeischwimmen.
(It's only wet when herring are passing by at eye height).
🙈
Turns out a lazy wind is when it's that biting cold wind, where it doesn't have the decency to spend effort going around you, but instead to blow right through you
You can be sure that my novel "Ananias" will open up an unexplored Newfoundland realm for you in the time of Thomas Hardy both in sayings and diction.
It's early
[My own]
“They have the wind up front”- being opposed so much that progress is very slow at best.
“Their coat flaps/flies along with the wind” - changes their opinion depending on someone contradicting them 1/2
“A storm in a glass of water” - much ado about nothing
Wind strong enough to blow the foam off your beer (actual lived experience)