The Idiomingo Blog

Long-form stories about proverbs, idioms, and the languages and cultures that shape how we speak.

• False Friends: The Words That Will Get You in Trouble Abroad — Order a Gift in Germany and you've asked for poison. Say embarazada in Spanish and you've announced a pregnancy. The words that look like English and betray you completely.
• The Same Idiom in Different Languages: 6 Ideas the Whole World Shares — English makes a mountain out of a molehill; Turks make a camel out of a flea. Six universal ideas, and the very different images 18 languages found for them.

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