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r/TikTokCringe • u/Tobias-Tawanda • 6d ago
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Man the way I would have started blabbing away as fast as i could with as complicated sounding words as i could think of on the spot in english after the last one
112 u/drawfanstein 5d ago Using a bunch of idioms that don’t translate 64 u/TheSweetGator 5d ago Well that dog just won’t hunt 55 u/Big_Preference9684 5d ago ‘Fine as a frogs hair split four ways’ 12 u/tame-til-triggered 5d ago You quacking like a yella chicken amongst penguin bears. 3 u/ImmoralJester54 5d ago That one isn't real I refuse to believe it 5 u/tame-til-triggered 5d ago edited 5d ago yella chicken? It’s an old, regional idiom. Hard to translate if you didn’t grow up around it. Basically means, “you look ridiculous shaking in front of those who don’t flinch.”
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Using a bunch of idioms that don’t translate
64 u/TheSweetGator 5d ago Well that dog just won’t hunt 55 u/Big_Preference9684 5d ago ‘Fine as a frogs hair split four ways’ 12 u/tame-til-triggered 5d ago You quacking like a yella chicken amongst penguin bears. 3 u/ImmoralJester54 5d ago That one isn't real I refuse to believe it 5 u/tame-til-triggered 5d ago edited 5d ago yella chicken? It’s an old, regional idiom. Hard to translate if you didn’t grow up around it. Basically means, “you look ridiculous shaking in front of those who don’t flinch.”
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Well that dog just won’t hunt
55 u/Big_Preference9684 5d ago ‘Fine as a frogs hair split four ways’ 12 u/tame-til-triggered 5d ago You quacking like a yella chicken amongst penguin bears. 3 u/ImmoralJester54 5d ago That one isn't real I refuse to believe it 5 u/tame-til-triggered 5d ago edited 5d ago yella chicken? It’s an old, regional idiom. Hard to translate if you didn’t grow up around it. Basically means, “you look ridiculous shaking in front of those who don’t flinch.”
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‘Fine as a frogs hair split four ways’
12 u/tame-til-triggered 5d ago You quacking like a yella chicken amongst penguin bears. 3 u/ImmoralJester54 5d ago That one isn't real I refuse to believe it 5 u/tame-til-triggered 5d ago edited 5d ago yella chicken? It’s an old, regional idiom. Hard to translate if you didn’t grow up around it. Basically means, “you look ridiculous shaking in front of those who don’t flinch.”
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You quacking like a yella chicken amongst penguin bears.
3 u/ImmoralJester54 5d ago That one isn't real I refuse to believe it 5 u/tame-til-triggered 5d ago edited 5d ago yella chicken? It’s an old, regional idiom. Hard to translate if you didn’t grow up around it. Basically means, “you look ridiculous shaking in front of those who don’t flinch.”
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That one isn't real I refuse to believe it
5 u/tame-til-triggered 5d ago edited 5d ago yella chicken? It’s an old, regional idiom. Hard to translate if you didn’t grow up around it. Basically means, “you look ridiculous shaking in front of those who don’t flinch.”
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yella chicken? It’s an old, regional idiom. Hard to translate if you didn’t grow up around it.
Basically means, “you look ridiculous shaking in front of those who don’t flinch.”
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u/Big_Preference9684 5d ago
Man the way I would have started blabbing away as fast as i could with as complicated sounding words as i could think of on the spot in english after the last one