hello everybody and welcome back to the only youtuber that records in ultra hd
please use the 4k my name is evan edinger and today we're doing a little ask reddit thread just
kidding it's a reddit thread on ask europe again we're doing a couple of these this week as i still
tumultuously try and find a way to buy a house in the uk today's ask europe thread in question talks
about different idioms across culture that refer to the different countries of europe and i thought
this would be very very interesting going in so for instance in english you would say to go dutch
which means to split the bill with a group of people at a restaurant i've never heard that but
op goes on for example it's commonly thought to be connected to the dutch beginning stock trading and
splitting costs among them what random expressions do you have in your country that reference
other countries uh for instance right off the bat i know that in the uk when you play a simple
childish game of telephone or whisper down the lane they'll call it chinese whispers so
that's interesting uh don't know what that's about also instead of just doing the wave you know when
you stand up at a festival or at a big stadium everyone does the wave in the uk they call it
the mexican wave okay interesting don't know why but that's what we're talking about here
they reference other cultures and let's see what we've got first up we've got
germany with einen ponishin obgang machen to do a polish exit uh to leave without saying goodbye
oh that's quite interesting that it's referred to as polish uh whereas i think in the uk i'd
literally do this all the time and irish exit you leave you don't say goodbye to everyone as long as
you've said hello to everyone you kind of slip out when no one notices you do an irish exit that's
what i've always said brexitin to constantly say you're going to leave but never actually leave
well rest in peace we did finally funny we caught an irish goodbye in the u.s as well ah okay it
was one of those things i didn't know if it was just the uk or if i picked that up here turns
out yes irish exits not a polish ex in hungary instead of saying an irish exit or a polish exit
they say to leave like an englishman angolazan which is pretty cool same in poland so in poland
they don't have a polish exit they're like no guys it's the english that do that
fun fun fun uh looking forward to the weekend there's also quite the lewd phrase fantastic
i know french but i have some problems with the language it refers to uh french kisses oral sex
uh which is called francis here interesting in the in the uk slash us though i don't know if
it's as big in the uk french kissing you know with the tongue french kissing we would use the
french to refer to kissing with the tongue but interestingly in german to say i know french
but i have problems with the language it's like saying oh i know oral but i can't speak french
i don't know why that's that's really funny um
i i love uh german expressions like that like i only know train station all right another
one with germany here with das comptman spanish for which means seems spanish
to me if something does not seem right like oh um something seems spanish to me
i think in the us we would just say fishy i think in the uk as well that something's a bit fishy
i don't think we have one necessarily for uh referring to different cultures but uh germany
goes on with also possibly etvos turken uh which means to fake something which turken turkish uh
while etymologically it's not really clear where it comes from whether or not it's actually related
turkey i think most people's association these days is with turkey okay understand
understandably turkish people don't like that word fair enough it's all greek to me that's
right america coming into the ask europe thread that's pretty popular right is that used outside
of america i assume all right in sweden they have pulse rickstag which means polish parliament which
also means a meeting that has gotten so out of hand and turned into a loud and confrontative mess
wow what a dig bit of polish parliament in there boom just roasted your entire country's political
system goodbye poland that's a very accurate statement all right poland's even like yeah
fair ah and here's some background on it everybody so every single member
of the polish parliament during the 17th to 18th century had an absolute veto which means
as a result legislation could only be passed unanimously so that makes a lot more sense
as to why that's entered the vernacular in a lot of countries around poland slovakia says
they've got an expression bulgarian constant a term used mostly in construction and engineering
for the number made up ad hoc in order to formally meet standards or requirements ah according to our
norwegian we have to do a spanish one means to do something unordinary such as to take figurative
shortcuts spaniards how do you feel about that does that make sense spanish people take your
shortcuts they also say the swedish method is to do something idiot-proof such as shutting
down a machine by pulling the cord out that's quite funny so that's actually quite nice like
if you wanted to turn off your light bulb and you just shoot it with a gun maybe the american method
but possibly also swedish men the netherlands have come with a duckling chinese which means that
sounds chinese to me meaning we don't understand what someone's trying to say or prat ich chinese
am i talking chinese it means something like why don't you understand what i'm saying i'm fairly
certain i've heard this multiple times in the us as well i haven't really heard it in the uk
but that is something definitely a big idiom over here a town in russia is something you don't care
or think about honestly as a teenager homework was a town in russia to me to take a french bath means
you only splash some water from the sink and you're on your armpits and your face
i you know i don't want to say anything but it makes sense a french bath just splashing a couple
bits of water on your armpits in your face done i am lean good to know drunk as a swede means
very drunk and can't stand on your feet and lastly unload american style from the army when unloading
your rifle you unload it by squeezing the trigger like oh you got some extra bullets let me just
done sorted bullets out of the way ah interesting in denmark they say
at vera grace catholic to be a greek catholic and that just means you don't care at all wow
do you want hot dogs or pizza for your birthday hmm i'm a greek catholic
haser would translate as pretending you are swedish and it means that you're
pretending you don't understand something ah so being koi is just pretending to be swedish
for example a kid gets a bunch of candy eats it and his mom finds out and asks him where it is
uh if the kid then says he doesn't know the mom would tell him to stop pretending to be swedish
those swedes they're always being so coy they know what they've done
sweden person says i do not understand you are really in character supposedly etymologically it
actually came from the latin word suko meaning shu so it was more like pretending to be a shoe uh but
it's been more associated with sweden over time learning so much from this thread heck if you're
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next up we've got the united kingdom all right guys i better know what these are when i was
little we used to play here it is chinese whispers talked about that in the beginning uh you sit in a
circle and you whisper to someone down the lane or whisper down the lane as they say don't know why
it's called uh chinese whispers though we use the phrase for people who have passed on gossip and
no one knows it's true i imagine it comes from our colonial past with china probably uh also
it's all greek to me yeah that's definitely a big one we had loads of french ones about sexuality
but we don't use now a french letter was a condom really have you got a french letter oui
yeah that's that's interesting norway comes in with not a country but we have the expression helt
texas or completely texas that means going off the hinges and devolving into chaos not necessarily in
a bad way if a party takes off and you could fest in valhalla texas the party was completely texas
that's great uh that probably means uh the cleanup is not going to be fun the next day
not a country do not tell a texan that right an italian has lovingly just compiled loads of them
for us here are some lovely idioms from italy we've got to smoke a lot to smoke like a turk
turkey interesting we've then got to be perfectly on time switzerland that's fair that makes a lot
of sense uh which it looks like to be punctual like a swiss sure makes sense uh infila indiana
really in a file where one person is behind the other native americans oh a single file line uh in
the us we call sitting indian style sitting indian style it's just called cross-legged in the uk
just uh thought about that oh and then we have americanatta or used to describe something that's
over the top in an american way we finally got one about the u.s i can't believe it americanata
something that looks very american someone from spain only just now realizing they're coming
off very badly in this thread dude cheer up in portuguese espanola means titty hey
that's actually quite lovely it's quite lovely who doesn't enjoy good espinola in turkey we have
the german way of paying the bill uh it means when everyone pays for only what they ate i have no
idea why it's called the german way sounds pretty efficient but also i'm the type of person that
doesn't get appetizers i don't get fancy drinks so if all i got was a burger i shouldn't have to pay
to split all of you guys as getting all these giant appetizers okay i'm about paying the german
weight australia pippin in here don't know if other english-speaking countries use this but
in australia a dutch oven is when you fart under a blanket or in a sleeping bag and trap the smell in
there i mean probably from the expression a dutch oven which is a lovely little thing you can buy
to cook with but um i've never ever heard of it called that i think i've heard of it as hot boxing
usually referred to when you're you fill a room with weed but you can hot box your blankets with
some farts in greece they have be an englishman be punctual that's hilarious speaking chinese
it's all greek to me so basically they just had to find another way of saying it and scottish shower
something good followed by something bad and vice versa i'm just trying to relate to scottish
shower is is when you experience something good and then immediately experience something bad
or vice versa how's that that's scottish people do you understand are your showers that
good slash bad compared to normal life if you are someone that enjoys showers
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