40 CHALLENGING IDIOMS TO TRANSLATEIf you formally study a language, you know an indicator of cultural and lingual understanding is using idioms and cultural sayings appropriately.
One day, I walked into my office and casually asked a coworker how she was doing to which she responded, "Hanging on like a hair on a biscuit*." I was tickled by the visual simile and promptly asked for translation to ensure my interpretation was correct. Of the many changes I anticipated moving from New York to a small town in Tennessee, developing an arsenal of colorful southern phrases was not one. Check out this list of idioms in other languages. *Hanging on like a hair on a biscuit: Said when things are not great but could be much worse. Similar sentiment as, "I'm hanging in there." Thanks for stopping by and getting to know me more intimately.
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