Estar nas verzas
Meaning: To be daydreaming and distracted.
Language: Galician
Literally: To be in the cabbages
Category: Food & Drink
Origin: A mind wandering off among the cabbage rows pictures someone miles away from the matter at hand.
Equivalents in other languages
- French: Avoir la tête dans les nuages — literally: To have one's head in the clouds
- Spanish: estar en la luna de Valencia — literally: to be in the moon of Valencia
- Serbian: Пасти с Марса (Pasti s Marsa) — literally: To fall from Mars
- English: have one's head in the clouds
More idioms — Food & Drink
- Arriver comme un cheveu sur la soupe — To show up at a completely inopportune, awkward moment.
- hash slinger — A cook or server in a cheap restaurant, often regarded as rude or inattentive.
- sugarcoat the pill — To make something unpleasant more palatable or easier to accept.
- flavor of the week — A person or thing that receives intense attention or popularity for a brief period before…
- long pork — Human flesh, especially as food.
- bad apple — A person of bad character whose presence corrupts or damages others or a group.
More Galician idioms
- Chover sobre mollado — Trouble piling on top of trouble.
- Facer das tripas corazón — To summon courage in the face of adversity.
From our compliments & insults
- Casse-pieds — A massive bore or pain in the neck — someone who wears you down with their irritating way…
- Espèce de patate — You dim bulb — a potato being the very picture of inert, unthinking stodginess.
- Quel râleur / quelle râleuse — You never stop moaning — everything is a complaint, nothing is ever good enough.