Twelve everyday expressions that never quite translate word-for-word: tap any card to reveal what it actually means.
I don’t understand anything at all: used when something is totally confusing, the way English speakers say “it’s all Greek to me.”
I don’t care either way: it makes no difference to me, like saying “it’s all the same to me.”
To get lucky. Owning a pig was once a sign of good fortune, and the phrase stuck around long after.
To keep your fingers crossed for someone: wishing them luck, the German way.
To get on someone’s nerves: to annoy or irritate them.
Everything is fine, all is well. Possibly from an old practice of shipping fragile glass packed in melted butter so it wouldn’t break.
To have a hangover, the morning after drinking too much.
To be exactly right about something: the rare idiom that translates word-for-word into English.
To give your (often unsolicited) two cents: to chime in with your opinion whether anyone asked or not.
To be completely exhausted, totally worn out: you have nothing left to give.
To be fed up with something, to have had enough of it.
To be crazy, to have a screw loose: sometimes said while tapping a finger to the temple.