“Dodge the fare”in other languages
Get in or ride without paying.
Italian
Russian
Swedish
ItalianRussianSwedishSame idea, different pictures
Russian rides like a hare, ехать зайцем: the fare-dodger is as jumpy as a hare at the sight of every ticket inspector. Swedish slips away from the bill, smita från notan, before it arrives.
Italian fare il portoghese, to do the Portuguese, comes with a popular story from 18th-century Rome: Portuguese nationals were let into a theater free, and plenty of Romans suddenly turned out to be Portuguese.
More sayings in other languages
- Muddy the waters
- Don't push your luck
- Drag someone's name through the mud
- Drive someone up the wall
- A drop in the bucket
- Drunk as a skunk
- Lead someone up the garden path
- Eat humble pie
- Have egg on your face