Another favorite Hungarian phrase of mine:

"I'm struggling like a piglet on ice."

(Küzdök, mint malac a jégen)

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The Hungarian term for making promises in someone else's name and saddling them with an unwanted task is

"Beating the nettles with someone else's d***"

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Another fun fact:

The Hungarian version of "the tables have turned" is "visszanyal a fagyi"

Which literally translates into

"The ice cream licks back"

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Fun fact:

The Hungarian version of "I have absolutely no idea" is "halványlila gőzöm sincs"

Which literally translates into

"I don't even have light purple steam" [about this]

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