Adam Sharp

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A phrase meaning "approaching things with a fully prepared mind and without letting your guard down" is "Fundoshi-o Shimete kakaru.(褌を締めてかかる)" which literally means, "Tighten Fundoshi and get to work".

Fundoshi - Wikipedia

Japanese traditional underwear, which has become rare, is "FUNDOSHI(ふんどし,褌)".
(See wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundoshi )
And there is a Japanese idiom including "Fundoshi".
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Toilet humour is called "onderbroekenlol" in Dutch, meaning underpants humour.

Happy National Underwear Day, underwearers!

Happy underwear day, remember to change yours.

Fun fact: there's a village in Poland called Swornegacie. The name sounds funny bc it could be translated as 'obedient underpants' but in fact it comes from two Kashubian words: 'swora', meaning a braid made of pine roots used for strengthening (known as 'gacenie') the banks of lakes and rivers.

Ah so glad you found me in the end! I should probably go back to Twitter to do a few more tweets saying I'm just on here now (not sure if I can face it though, but might be worth it to reconnect with more lovely people like you on here)

A popular way of telling someone not to get annoyed in the UK is “don’t get your knickers in a twist.” The direct US equivalent is “don’t get your panties in a bunch.” Although a better (if non-underwear) version, in my opinion, is a phrase from the north of England – “don’t get on your huffy bike.”

A slang Greek expression that can be used when you’ve been given a far too heavy workload by your bosses is με έστειλαν ξεβράκωτο στα αγγούρια. It means “they sent me to the cucumbers without underwear.”

One of the most brutal curses I’ve ever heard in Romanian (or any language) is uscami-aș chiloții pe crucea mă-tii. It means “I’ll leave my underwear out to dry on your mother’s cross.”

In English, if two people are inseparable / very close they could be described as “thick as thieves” or “like two peas in a pod.” An Arabic equivalent is طيظين في لباس. It means “two bums in one pair of underpants.”

A French way of saying something is tip-top or the bee’s knees, especially a fine wine, is c’est le petit Jésus en culotte de velours. It means “it’s the baby Jesus in velvet underpants.”

In Venezuelan Spanish, a place in the middle of nowhere can be described as donde el Diablo perdió los calzoncillos. It means “where the Devil lost his underpants.”

Today is National Underwear Day so here’s a briefs thread of international phrases about underwear, starting with this one…

A slang Finnish word for getting drunk at home in just your underwear is kalsarikännit. It means “pants drunk.”

Ah, that's where the Meowl is coming from

Regular reminder that the welsh for owl is an onomatopoeia.

Gwdihw - Goo-dee-hoo.

Do with this what you will.

Low German: "Wat den einen sin Uhl is den annern sin Nachtigal" - "Was für den einen die Eule ist, ist für den andern eine Nachtigall" - "One man's owl is another's nightingale"

Something about different viewpoints.

A Scottish term for a woman who tends to young owls is a Hootenanny.

There's a bit of football (or soccer) slang in Brazil, stating that a ball might hit "where the owl sleeps" (either top corner on a goal frame).

In Polish: 'nie urodzi sowa sokoła' (=an owl won't give birth to a falcon) which means that some things are simply beyond one's capabilities. Another one, a bit morbid, is 'Sowa na dachu kwili, komuś umrzeć po chwili' = a crying (squawking) owl on the roof is a harbinger of someone's imminent death.

I found this account @owlsintowels.org, which owl in a towel are you today? I'm feeling like (1,1) although most days I'm more of a 3rd-row-2nd-column person😉

Skyline cleansing 🧵

So much deep owl lore, international edition

But what if I want an owl and a falcon?

Not owl-themed, but I recently learnt a Swedish phrase for "not bad" that goes det där är inte kattskit, or “that’s not cat shit.”

"Ei pöllömpää" is a phrase in Finnish meaning, "not bad". Literally "not more than owl", but "pöllö", owl, is also a dunce, stupid. (Not like the wise owl of English literature.)
I like to say "ei pöllön pää", "not an owl's head", but I'm a bit of a pöllö. 🦉

Today is International Owl Awareness Day and I had a hoot putting together this thread of international owl phrases, starting with this one…

A colloquial way of telling someone to mind their own business in Punjabi is apna ooloo sidha rukh. It means “keep your own owl straight.”

A beautiful expression in Dutch similar to “You can a lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink” is “Wat baten kaars en bril als de uil niet zien wil?”: what good are a candle and glasses if the owl does not want to see?”

I don't mean to brag but this owl joke has been turning a few heads...