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На баба ми хвърчилото

Meaning: Something utterly irrelevant or nonsensical.

Language: Bulgarian

Literally: My granny's kite

Category: The Absurd

Origin: A dismissive Bulgarian retort that two things are about as related as grandmother and a kite.

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