mccReading via mastodon translate a thread by a French poster about recent actions by Macron and partway through got slapped in the face with the discovery that "I'll eat my hat" is an idiom in France as well as America ("Bon, je mange mon chapeau, et c'est pas très bon.")
Is this… how universal is this? Do they eat hats in Germany? Russia? What percentage of earth has a local-language idiom for eating hats?
Chip Collier@mcc ... a tagent, but worth mentioning perhaps, Germans occasionally think they spider when not eating brooms.
Also, in the US as well as Germany you can feel touched, but in Germany its quite negative.
Also, in the US as well as Germany you can feel touched, but in Germany its quite negative.