“A stroke of luck”in other languages
A sudden piece of good fortune.
English
Japanese
Korean
EnglishJapaneseKoreanSame idea, different pictures
English gets one sudden stroke. Japanese has a sweet rice cake fall from the shelf, tana kara botamochi, straight into your mouth.
Korean has a pumpkin roll in, vine and all, 호박이 넝쿨째 굴러 들어왔다: more luck than you asked for.
More sayings in other languages
- Sugarcoat the pill
- Take a hike
- Take the rap
- Take to one's heels
- Take something with a grain of salt
- Talk someone's ear off
- Talk through one's hat
- Like talking to a brick wall
- That ship has sailed