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What's the English equivalent to "svära i kyrkan" in Swedish (literally "to swear in [a] church")?
"Svära i kyrkan" literally means to swear in church, and to my understanding the figurative meaning is when someone says or does something that questions/defies a social norm in a softer ...
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Does English have a version of "pouring water on a goose"?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/verkan
Det där har lika mycket verkan som att hälla vatten på en gås.
That has as much effect as pouring water on a goose.
It means that something is futile or ...
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English equivalent to the Swedish idiom "A dear child has many names"
In Sweden we have a saying that — literally translated — corresponds to “A dear child has many names” (“Kärt barn har många namn”).
The meaning is pretty straightforward: popular things can have a ...
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