Пасти с Марса (Pasti s Marsa)

Meaning: To be totally out of touch with what's going on.

Language: Serbian

Literally: To fall from Mars

Category: The Absurd

Origin: Someone so clueless they seem to have just arrived from another planet, knowing nothing of events.

More idioms — The Absurd

• На баба ми хвърчилото (Na baba mi hvarchiloto) — Something utterly irrelevant or nonsensical.
• C'est l'hôpital qui se fout de la charité — Said when someone criticizes another for a flaw they share themselves; the pot calling th…
• rhyme or reason — Any logical sense or reasonable explanation.
• blow up in one's face — To fail spectacularly or cause a plan to collapse in an embarrassing way.
• one is a poet and doesn't know it — Someone has unintentionally created a rhyme or spoken in verse without realizing it.
• rip it up — To perform with energy, excitement, and conspicuous success.

More Serbian idioms

• Мува без главе (Muva bez glave) — To rush about chaotically and without direction.
• Држати свећу (Držati sveću) — To be the awkward third wheel to a couple.
• Трла баба лан (Trla baba lan) — Pointless busywork done just to pass the time.

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