Att sätta sig på tvären
Meaning: To be obstinate and refuse to cooperate.
Language: Swedish
Literally: To sit down crosswise
Category: Daily Life
Origin: Planting yourself sideways across the way pictures stubborn, deliberate resistance.
More idioms — Daily Life
- Wyjść jak Zabłocki na mydle — To lose out badly on a deal.
- Pabuç pahalı — Things are getting dangerous; time to be careful.
- İki ayağını bir pabuca sokmak — To rush and pressure someone relentlessly.
- يضرب في حديد بارد — To waste effort on a hopeless task.
- از این ستون به آن ستون فرج است — Even a small change may bring hope.
- יצא מכליו — To lose your temper; to be beside yourself.
More Swedish idioms
- ge järnet — Exert maximum effort; give one's all.
- sitta med skägget i brevlådan — Be in a pickle or difficult predicament.
- ta sig vatten över huvudet — Get in over one's head; take on more than one can manage.
- under kniven — Undergoing surgery, or under intense pressure to perform.
- fjällen falla från någons ögon — To suddenly understand something that was previously hidden or obscured.
- en koloss på lerfötter — Something that appears powerful and impressive but rests on a fundamentally weak foundati…
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