An Illustrated Guide to the World's Strangest Sayings

A Colombian in love is “swallowed like a postman’s sock.” A Norwegian up to some dubious business may be “caught with his beard in the mailbox.” An irate Russian might threaten: “I’ll show him where the crayfish spends the winter!” Colorful idioms like these speckle languages across the globe. These “culturally specific expressions are precious insights into other lives across oceans, or in deserts,” says Ella Frances Sanders, the author of The Illustrated Book of Sayings, a new volume cataloging 52 of the strangest verbal gems from around the world.
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