Anar de bòlit
Meaning: To be rushed off your feet.
Language: Catalan
Literally: To go like a spinning top
Category: Daily Life
Origin: Spinning helplessly fast like a child's top pictures being overwhelmed with frantic busyness.
More idioms — Daily Life
- Å være på pinebenken — To be in anxious suspense.
- At score kassen — To make a big, easy profit.
- Lyödä rahoiksi — To cash in; to profit handsomely.
- Přijít s křížkem po funuse — To arrive uselessly too late.
- Nem enged a negyvennyolcból — To stubbornly refuse to compromise.
- Pole pole ndio mwendo — Slow and steady gets you there.
More Catalan idioms
- Pixar fora de test — To go off topic or be plainly mistaken.
- N'hi ha per llogar-hi cadires — The drama is so good it's worth watching like a show.
- Déu n'hi do — Wow — that's quite something.
- Fer cara de pomes agres — To look sullen and cross.
- Anar a pams — To proceed carefully, step by step.
- Tocar el dos — To clear off; to leave in a hurry.
From our proverbs
- Give it plenty of elbow grease. — Sustained physical effort and hard work can overcome obstacles that seem intractable or r…
- Better an empty house than a bad tenant. — An absent home causes less damage than one inhabited by someone destructive or unreliable.
- An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles. — Poverty's hardships and anxieties visibly age a person through stress and deprivation.