Pixar fora de test
Meaning: To go off topic or be plainly mistaken.
Language: Catalan
Literally: To pee outside the flowerpot
Category: Nature
Origin: Missing the pot entirely pictures straying from the point or getting something flatly wrong.
More idioms — Nature
- A se face luntre și punte — To do absolutely everything to help.
- Pasti s kruške — To be clueless and out of touch.
- Að leggja árar í bát — To give up and stop trying.
- Chover sobre mollado — Trouble piling on top of trouble.
- Il pleut comme vache qui pisse — It's pouring down — a crude, vivid way to say the rain is coming down extremely hard.
- set in stone — Unchangeable and permanent, fixed beyond modification.
More Catalan idioms
- 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.
- Fer figa — To give way or fail — of legs, knees or a plan.
From our compliments & insults
- Tu es un as — You're brilliant at what you do — the very best.
- Tu as de la répartie — You're brilliantly quick-witted — always ready with the perfect comeback.
- Eres un crack — You're brilliant — a total star at what you do.