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“Have egg on your face”in other languages

Look foolish after a mistake.

  • English
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
English
To have egg on your face
Portuguese
Pagar mico literally To pay monkey
Russian
оставаться в дураках ostavat'sya v durakakh literally To remain in the fools
Behind the words

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English leaves egg on your face for everyone to see. Brazilian Portuguese pays the monkey, pagar mico: in an old card game, whoever was left holding the monkey card lost.

Russian also comes from cards. In durak, “fool”, the loser is the one left holding cards, and оставаться в дураках is to end up the fool.

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