A se uita ca pisica în calendar
Meaning: To stare blankly, understanding nothing.
Language: Romanian
Literally: To look like the cat at the calendar
Category: Animals
Origin: A cat gazing at a calendar sees only marks it can't read — the Romanian image of total incomprehension.
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- A tăia frunză la câini — To do pointless work; to idle away the day.
- ขี่ช้างจับตั๊กแตน — To use enormous means for a trivial result.
- Die Katze im Sack kaufen — To buy something sight unseen and get cheated.
- Dar gato por liebre — To swindle by passing off something inferior as the real thing.
- Tagliare la testa al toro — To settle a matter decisively, once and for all.
- 猫の額 — A very small space, especially of land.
More Romanian idioms
- A o da în bară — To mess up or fail.
- 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.
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