Invent an Idiom

[Miiil]

next: to be overworked, to be overworking someone

Vama: lit. Of(feminen) Older Sorotineian Culture was very sexist. This is why they use the word Vama, as women could not work as hard, so were always overworked.

Next:Hating some alot

[sirred]

Next:Hating some alot

Yanti Lale Ompo tatachami.
/jandi lale ombi tatatʃami/
Low Chompi for Ompo followed Lale twice.

In Chompi legend, the Warlord Ompo declared a blood feud with the Warlord Lale. In order to make sure Lale was killed by his own hand, Ompo underwent a ritual that allowed his spirit to enter the afterlife prematurely to hunt Lale down there while his physical body hunted for him on Earth, so that Lale could not escape him.

Next: to be of poor crastmanship

[maıráí]

Maka~

shushon hi te hi X
lit. an X made of a handful of glass bits
If it's something said a lot, it can be shushontei X.

Sensenko raturao yi shushon hi te hi bujunketao tebu
These poorly-made gates lost all those men the war.

(This comes from a disastrous effort to cheaply rebuild a city after a war.)

next: a clumsy person, to constantly drop or bump into things

[con quesa]

next: a clumsy person, to constantly drop or bump into things

Saimiar pakraføcosy, literally "finch". Of uncertain etymology (i.e. I was sitting looking at the screen and thinking of a good Saimiar equivalent of that phrase, when suddenly "finch" just popped into my head. I view it as a sign).


Next: bitter and hostile towards one's preferred gender on account of being spurned one too many times.

[cybrxkhan]

Next: bitter and hostile towards one's preferred gender on account of being spurned one too many times.

Aidisese:

shite sentikai kuri han - literally, "[half] eagle who has abandoned itself". Double-headed eagles were originally thought of as symbolic of the ideal couple; though the symbolism was not originally romantic in nature, it soon became so in more modern Aidis. Thus in more modern Aidis, someone who is a 'half eagle' is someone who doesn't have a romantic partner, and therefore 'abandoning' one's 'half eagle' is like rejecting the possibility of finding the other 'half eagle'.

Or something like that...


Next:
honey/baby/beloved/dear (i.e. a generic term for one's significant other)

[WanderlustKoko]

honey/baby/beloved/dear (i.e. a generic term for one's significant other)

Karani: You can use the following ways to express this:

Pano sonku [pʰano zoŋu]- My "won item"
Wiiwuyuk [wi:wujʉːkʰ]-The "~" symbol [This simply means that you are madly in love with someone]
Purrpurr- [pʰurrpʰurr] Cat purring [onomatopoeia] [Refers to the submissive more feminine one in the relationship]
Fu [fʉ:]- breathing noise [onomatopoeia] (Refers to being out of breath from being in love with someone)
Ump- [umpʰ] burp, belch, hiccup [onomatopoeia] (Refers to the dominant more masculine one in the relationship]

Pano- My (1st person possessive)
Sonku-Something that is won but the size, quality, etc is not specific and so it could be anything won. Regardless of what it is.

NEXT: To be jibber-jabber/to talk non/stop/to not shut up/to ramble on and on

[Trailsend]

NEXT: To be jibber-jabber/to talk non/stop/to not shut up/to ramble on and on

Feayran:

Takatshakatshuruvátshi.

This is a reduplicated form of takatsh*tshi, which means "to make the sound a magpie makes."


Next: to be obstinate, stubborn

[cybrxkhan]

Next: to be obstinate, stubborn

Aidisese:
braketes ha igni - "to swirl [a] topic". The idea is that the topic - or, rather, your opinion or thoughts - sort of just spins around in one place, unwilling to 'move' or 'accept' something else.


Next:
to be caught red handed

[treskro]

Tow:
xújt èh i̱m an - v - to be caught doing smth bad


Next: crackling

[WanderlustKoko]

crackling.

Karani:
Furara wiiwuyuk- [furara wi:wujukʰ] To scratch '~'' symbols.

Furara- to scratch, itch, touch

NEXT: To be extremely cruel to someone/To damage someone for life (from a traumatic experience)

[TallaFerroXIV]

To be extremely cruel to someone/To damage someone for life (from a traumatic experience)

fitobardaz: eternal bad.

NEXT: to shoot an arrow from a horse

[Acid Badger]

balmankhem eniloda
/balˈmãχem eniloˈða/

balmankh would be "the back of a horse", +ablative -em, and eniloda ist the act of shooting an arrow. Yeah.


Next word: folk costume*

*edit: Oh I just realized this is the idiom thread. Sorry.

[TallaFerroXIV]

hunar miznvzirin
Clothes of old practices.


NEXT: River plane running into the sea.

[Trailsend]

NEXT: River plane running into the sea.

Káibihùokte
foot<DIR.FOLLOW-goose<LOC.FOLLOW>>
Goose's foot.



To give an insult disguised as a compliment.

[treskro]

Utakwu: nwup-, lit. to devour, used in colloquial/provincial speech

Next:
constipation

[Risla]

South Eresian: ap'etl- cua táqa "sitting on a rock."

Next word: fondle.

[cybrxkhan]

South Eresian: ap'etl- cua táqa "sitting on a rock."

Next word: fondle.

Aidisese:
memedresshi en da - literally "inside pillows".


Next:
to win against all odds (i.e. "snatch victory from the jaws of defeat", etc.)

[TallaFerroXIV]

toshdil si'amural zot un'sija

Arrive-before to the sea than the river.

Arrive to the sea before the river.


NEXT: Murphy's law

[cybrxkhan]

NEXT: Murphy's law

Aidisese:
Geunminges ma xos santos - "The Prince of Geunminges" or "Geunminges' Prince". The Prince of Geunminges is a famous character in Aidisese history. A distant relative of the ruling house of the Cedarinian Empire, he hailed from a region known as Guanming in the Cedarinian language, transliterated as Geunminges in Aidisese. Regardless, the Prince of Geunminges/Guanming (whose real name was Taiyo) was a powerful general of the Cedarinian Empire and was largely responsible for the near-defeat and near-annexation of Aidis by Cedarin during these two empires' centuries long war with each other. No matter what the situation was, whenever the Aidisese had to face him in battle, things would always get worse for them, even things that had nothing to do with the war like bad harvests and sudden plagues and so forth, so the legends say; as such, his name began to be associated with a concept similar to our world's concept of "Murphy's Law".


Next:
to do the impossible

[Acid Badger]

Next:
to do the impossible

Forom çḳimpale daḳaitta lit. "to go from the sky to the bottom of the sea and back"

Next: to fail completely

[Avjunza]

Next: to fail completely

Niocaci: Vod ziemua ragdil.
lit. Your clothes are torn.
This comes from a folktale about two tailors - one said the look of the clothing was more important; the other said the functionality. It ended with their wives running in dresses they had made, and when one dress ripped, the tailor who made it became a laughing stock, the other the best tailor in the land.

Next:
To be unsure/undecided about something

[cybrxkhan]

Next:
To be unsure/undecided about something

Aidisese:
Igni Emiu - literally "swirl think". A bit similar to "going around in circles", it means something like to keep going back and forth between different options but ultimately not settle on one, thus making one "swirl" around.


Next:
to ask a stupid or silly question

[WanderlustKoko]

Karani:
Muun zimba aku kwenku [mu:n simba akʰu kʰwɛŋku]- To refrigerate the lion's fingers/To microwave the lion's fingers/to cook the lion's fingers [This implies that you killed a lion cut off it's paws and either put them in the refrigerator or cooked them and then just left it there. It implies that it wasn't eaten [when it should have been and thus it expired] or dealt with appropriately in which a negative outcome happens to the person. [arrested/house set on fire/cursed/etc].

kwenku-finger(s)
zimba-lion
Muun- to keep something refridgerate something, to put something in the freeze, to heat up something in the microwave (on a stove, and other cooking related activity)
aku- possessive particle ([insert word here]'s or [insert word here] of [insert word here])

Next: To let the cat out of the bag/expose a secret

[Soap]

Kuroras: lēà sì "to expose one's street clothes" (i.e. take off a jacket) to show what clan you belong to and (in some cases) your occupation. In the temple everyone dresses the same so that rich and important people will not stand out from the others; outside the temple that all goes away.

Lame, I know. I just wanted to keep the thread alive.

Next: to revisit an old friend whom youve been neglecting for a long time

[Yng]

Pvà syátē fà, 'to give guilty kisses' - traditionally when you see an old friend after a long period, you kiss their cheeks. The guilt stems from having neglected them.

Next: to win by dishonourable means, to cheat