10 Crazy Things Russians Say And What They Mean

In Turkey, we make a camel out of a flea..

it's correct, but in Russia we don't eat noodle from Chinese small box :)

Nono, not a shoe like the one at the picture. A horseshoe.

crayfish is correct !)

You can also say "after it rains on a Thursday" :)

In America, it's "When pigs fly"

And the comments go down hill. lol arguing over a shrimp. I mean crawdad, crab, I mean lobster, I mean crayfish, I mean prawn.... we get it

I heard someone say - " When a dead fish farts in a puddle" (Когда дохлая рыба в луже пёрнет)

In Holland: try to convince your cat that that is true

In Republic of Georgia we say: "When a donkey climbs a tree" 😂

When pigs fly (UK)

Heh. I have a friend with the last name Рак (Crayfish). So he specially recorded a video, where he whistles on the mountain.

to be precise, 1) crayfish, not lobster, and 2) you say something like " meh, only gonna happen when crayfish whistles on a mountain"

Not 'a lobster', but a cancer

when it will rain knives - In Portuguese

In Turkish it is: When the anchovy goes up the poplar tree

No panic , it's just a common saying, nothing to do with dentists, just like you say 'bet my hat', we say 'bet my tooth'

A crayfish (not lobster of course :) ) whistles quicker than what You tell....

In the Philippines, when the crows turn white.

Except that this lobster is dead, since it's red😏

Not lobster, not crayfish, yabby!

Рак это CRAB 🦀!!!

In portuguese, not even if a cow coughs!

Complete idiom is: "when a crayfish whistles on a mountain, and a fish sings". Definitely similar to "when pigs fly", as in "never" :)

Crayfish!

One an also say 'After Thursday's rain' which is perfectly well completed by the 'when a crayfish whistles on top of a mountain'. These two can be used both separately or together.

Crayfish! Not cancer. Cancer is disease.

This ia just awful jail slang! ) This slang usually use bad educated and dumb people only ! Sometimes use as a joke about dumb people )

Some of these sayings are used in other countries of Europe too, here in Croatia as well, so it's not just the "Russian" thing. :)

Packed like Sardines. Same thing really.

Pants, not undies

Slang too. More exactly that sounds something like this ."To excruciate a little worm to death"

The word used for raisin in this idiom is actually in the diminutive somewhat cutesy form. So if you have something interesting about you, that interesting thing about you is referred to as a baby raisin by this idiom. It is an odd expression, sure, but it is somewhat akin to "the cherry on top" expression in English, which to non-English speakers might seem like a similarly random food item metaphorically used to signify something extraordinary.