A o da în bară

Meaning: To mess up or fail.

Language: Romanian

Literally: To hit it into the post

Category: Daily Life

Origin: From football, where a shot that strikes the goalpost misses the target despite coming close.

More idioms — Daily Life

• İğneyle kuyu kazmak — To undertake a painfully slow, laborious task.
• الحبل على الكذب قصير — Lies never last; they are soon exposed.
• نوشدارو بعد از مرگ سهراب — A solution that arrives uselessly too late.
• קופצים על המציאה — To seize a great opportunity at once.
• תפסת מרובה לא תפסת — Overreach for too much and you end up with nothing.
• Розбити глек — To fall out and ruin a friendship.

More Romanian idioms

• A face din țânțar armăsar — To exaggerate something enormously.
• A tăcea ca porcul în păpușoi — To keep guiltily quiet.
• A umbla cu cioara vopsită — To try to deceive people with falsehoods.
• A se face luntre și punte — To do absolutely everything to help.
• A freca menta — To waste time; to loaf around doing nothing useful.
• A-i pica fisa — To finally understand something.

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