“It’s a piece of cake.”
We have all said this phrase which means something is easy. I’m not much of a baker so I don’t think making a cake is easy. Maybe the phrase means how easy it is to eat a cake.
Here are a few examples of how other languages say something is easy.
Belarusian: Simpler than a stewed turnip.
Chinese: As easy as turning your hand over, or as easy as a side dish.
Bulgarian: As a child’s game, or an easy job.
Croatian: A cat’s cough. Czech: Easy as a slap. Danish: As easy as slapping one’s neck.
Dutch: Child’s play. English: As easy as pie. As easy as ABC. As easy as falling o ff a log. A s e asy a s shooting fish in a barrel. As easy as taking candy from a baby. No sweat.
French: As easy as sticking your fingers in the nose. As simple as hello. It’s cat pee.
German: Child’s play. Indonesian: As easy as turning your palm around.
Japanese: Before breakfast (something is so easy you could finish before breakfast.)
Korean: Lying on one’s back and eating rice cakes.
Italian: As easy as a walk in the park.
Latvian. Like two times two.
Polish: Bread rolls and butter. Small beer.
Portuguese: It’s chicken soup.
Russian: Understandable to a hedgehog. Like someone barefooted taking off their shoes.
Slovenian: As easy as a small meal.
Spanish: Easy as 123. Swedish: Easy as a small pancake.
Turkish: As pulling a hair from butter. Partridge in the bag.
Greek: As butter spread on bread. —kwc— And since we need rain so badly around here, I’ll tell you how to say “raining cats and dogs” in other languages and hope it helps Rockdale get some.
Spanish: It’s raining dung head-first.
Afrikaans: It’s raining old women with clubs.
Maltese: The doors of heaven have opened up.
German: It’s raining shoemakers.
Slovakian: Tractors are falling.
Danish: It’s raining cobbler boys.
Greek: It’s raining chair legs.
Hebrew: A flood is coming down.
Moroccan: It’s raining like a thread from the sky.
Japanese: Earth and sand are falling.
Turkish: It’s raining like long strings of rope.
Brazilian: It’s raining frogs’ beards.
Polish: It’s throwing frogs. Cantonese: Dog poo is falling.
Norwegian: It’s raining female trolls.
Serbian: The rain falls and kills the mice. —kwc— Last but not least, here’s how they say “speak of the devil” in other languages.
French: Speak of the wolf and he’s out of the woods.
Arabic: When you mention the cat, it comes out jumping.
Scottish: Shout shite and it comes flying.
Swedish: When you speak of the trolls, they are standing in the hallway.
Spanish: Speak of the King of Rome.
German: Talk about the devil and see a pair of horns growing.
Hebrew: It’s a pity we didn’t speak about the Messiah.
Greek: Speak of the donkey.
Hungarian: Don’t paint the devil on the wall or it will manifest.
Japanese: Speak of the devil and its shadow will appear.
Italian: Speak of the devil and its horns shall appear.
Norwegian: Speak of the sun and it is shinging.
Moroccan: Mention the wolf and prepare a bat.
Indonesian: You shall have a long life.
Yiddish: If one speak of the angel, the priest comes.
Bulgarian Speak of the wolf and he will appear near the sheep.
Korean: Even a tiger appears wen he is spoken about.
Turkish: Speak of the dog and make your stick ready.
Romanian: Speak of the wolf and it is right at the door.
Chinese: Speak of Cao Cao and he’ll arrive.
Maltese: Look what the sea has brought up.
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