“Ants in one's pants”in other languages

Same idea, different pictures

Almost every version puts something lively in your seat: ants in English, bumblebees in German, Hummeln im Hintern. Spanish blames the seat itself: ser culo de mal asiento, to have a bottom that sits badly.

French has the oddest one: être piqué de la tarentule, to be bitten by the tarantula. In southern Italy, people believed the bite of the spider of Taranto could only be cured by dancing wildly for days, and the tarantella takes its name from it.