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miscommunication

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“A cheerful heart is good medicine.” – Proverbs 17:22 NLT

Living in a multi-ethnic context like Los Angeles can breed humor. A friend of mine with an Asian heritage was sharing some funny ways in which his aunt shared common American idioms. He shared them with me, because he thought they were funny.

Her son was just learning to crawl, so she said, “We have to watch him like hogs.”

Things are going crazy, so she said, “Everything is going hayride.”

When she was getting a lot done, she said, “Look how many birds I’m shooting.”

It reminded me of a funny idiom that I heard while living in the Ukraine one summer. While we say, “Your pulling my leg.” They say, “Your putting noodles over my ears.”

So do you have any cool idioms to share from another country or funny ways people have expressed american idioms?