A tăia frunză la câini
Meaning: To do pointless work; to idle away the day.
Language: Romanian
Literally: To cut leaves for the dogs
Category: Animals
Origin: Cutting foliage to feed dogs — animals that don't eat leaves — is the very picture of useless, time-filling labor.
More idioms — Animals
- 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 (Neko no hitai) — A very small space, especially of land.
- Водить за нос (Vodit' za nos) — To deceive or string someone along.
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.
From our compliments & insults
- Eres más lento que el caballo del malo — You're painfully slow — the villain's horse never catches the hero.
- Testa di rapa — A blockhead who isn't thinking.
- Du hast doch einen Vogel — You're a bit out of your mind.