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[27149]

It's Greek to me - nonsense talk or writing; gibberish

 

[Buckwheattobe]

dud - thing or device etc, that turns out to be a failure

I would classify this word as a half slang.

 

[吾言]

It's Greek to me - nonsense talk or writing; gibberish

why is greek/

 

[darkchild]

why is greek/

cause not alot of ppl know greek?!
just guessing~

 

[Buckwheattobe]

Greek is based on Cyrillics, different from the Romance Languages such as French, German, English etc which are based on Latin alphabets. Russian is also based on Cyrillics, something to do with their common religion, the Eastern Orthodox.

 

[Buckwheattobe]

mano a mano - man to man, one on one
I like to use that a lot. Actually borrowed from Spanish.

 

[tree&waves]

Greek is based on Cyrillics, different from the Romance Languages such as French, German, English etc which are based on Latin alphabets. Russian is also based on Cyrillics, something to do with their common religion, the Eastern Orthodox.

so I suppose people use Greek to refer sth. that is very foreign for them, or sth. that appears to be from a completely different system of thinking/wording etc., am I correct?

 

[27149]

loose cannon - someone who is uncontrolled or unpredictable may causes damage to his own political party or entity he belongs to.

 

[乐极生悲]

大家英语呱呱好啊，俺还是专心说中文吧

 

[billwanhua]

great new english words created by chinese

 

[wiiwii]

great new english words created by chinese

 

[吾言]

一天没看，学习贴掉到第3页，荞麦大叔呢？

 

[么么妈]

学习中~~~~顺便问问高人谁知道清热，上火怎么翻译呐。。。每次老外看我喝枸杞，菊花水什么都问我why u drink this? 憋半天我只能回答个cause it's good for health......................

 

[吾言]

听说叫UP FIRE不知正确否，高人指点。

 

[吾言]

学习中~~~~顺便问问高人谁知道清热，上火怎么翻译呐。。。每次老外看我喝枸杞，菊花水什么都问我why u drink this? 憋半天我只能回答个cause it's good for health......................

枸杞和菊花不能一起和吧。