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“Have one's head in the clouds”in other languages

Be a daydreamer, out of touch with what's going on.

  • English
  • French
  • Galician
  • Serbian
  • Spanish
English
have one's head in the clouds
French
Avoir la tête dans les nuages literally To have one's head in the clouds
Galician
Estar nas verzas literally To be in the cabbages
Serbian
Пасти с Марса Pasti s Marsa literally To fall from Mars
Spanish
estar en la luna de Valencia literally To be in the moon of Valencia
Behind the words

Same idea, different pictures

English and French put the head in the clouds, an old joke: Aristophanes' play The Clouds shows the philosopher Socrates hanging in a basket in the air. Serbian has fallen from Mars, пасти с Марса, and knows nothing about the world.

Galician is among the cabbages, estar nas verzas. Spanish is on the moon of Valencia, estar en la luna de Valencia; why Valencia has never been settled.

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