Idioms Other Than English
From Lonely Planet's Say What?:
"To have bats in the belfry" = French "To have a spider on the ceiling", Croatian "Crows have drunk his brain"
"To lose your marbles" = Turkish "To kidnap the goats"
"To push up daisies" = German "To look at the radishes from below"
"A liquid lunch" = Dutch "A glass sandwich"
"When hell freezes over" = Slovenian, Portuguese "On Saint Never's Day"
"Get lost!" = Dutch "Walk to the moon", Finnish "Ski into a spruce"
"A fish out of water" = Spanish "An octopus in a garage"
And a wonderful expression from Colombian Spanish: "Swallowed like the postman's sock" = "Hopelessly in love"
"To have bats in the belfry" = French "To have a spider on the ceiling", Croatian "Crows have drunk his brain"
"To lose your marbles" = Turkish "To kidnap the goats"
"To push up daisies" = German "To look at the radishes from below"
"A liquid lunch" = Dutch "A glass sandwich"
"When hell freezes over" = Slovenian, Portuguese "On Saint Never's Day"
"Get lost!" = Dutch "Walk to the moon", Finnish "Ski into a spruce"
"A fish out of water" = Spanish "An octopus in a garage"
And a wonderful expression from Colombian Spanish: "Swallowed like the postman's sock" = "Hopelessly in love"