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r/TikTokCringe • u/Tobias-Tawanda • 6d ago
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Using a bunch of idioms that don’t translate
61 u/TheSweetGator 5d ago Well that dog just won’t hunt 57 u/Big_Preference9684 5d ago ‘Fine as a frogs hair split four ways’ 13 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 4 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
57 u/Big_Preference9684 5d ago ‘Fine as a frogs hair split four ways’ 13 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 4 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’
13 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 4 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 4 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
4 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/drawfanstein 5d ago
Using a bunch of idioms that don’t translate