A umbla cu cioara vopsită
Meaning: To try to deceive people with falsehoods.
Language: Romanian
Literally: To go around with a painted crow
Category: Animals
Origin: Passing off a painted crow as some finer bird pictures peddling obvious, dressed-up lies.
More idioms — Animals
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- آستین کا سانپ (aasteen ka saanp) — A treacherous false friend.
- Il pleut comme vache qui pisse — It's pouring down — a crude, vivid way to say the rain is coming down extremely hard.
- sleep with the fishes — To be dead, with one's body disposed of in the ocean or a large body of water.
More Romanian idioms
- 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.
- A se uita ca pisica în calendar — To stare blankly, understanding nothing.
- A tăia frunză la câini — To do pointless work; to idle away the day.
- A o da în bară — To mess up or fail.