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amother
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 Mon, Jan 11 2021, 4:25 pm
| zaq wrote: | Az men is raikh, is men shein un klug un ken fain zingen
When you're you're rich, you're pretty and clever and can sing well, too.
I don't know so much about life lessons, I just like the pithiness of the expressions.
Es hot geholfen vee a teit in bankes: It helped like cupping a corpse.
sorry, correction: vee ah toiteh bankes. toiteh is corpse in Yiddish
A khisoron di kallah is tzu shein: A defect, the bride is too pretty.
Vos men leigt arain, nemt men aroys: You get out what you put in.
A krankn fregt men, a gezuntn git men: a sick person you ask if he wants food; a healthy person you serve without asking if he wants
In beis harov, kent di meshoresteh paskenen shailes: in the rabbi's house, the Gentile housemaid knows how to answer questions on Jewish law
Az me muz, muz men: when you have to, you have to.
A nekhtiger tog: literally, a nightly day, iow 'ha! fat chance!no way!'
A mensh trakht, G-tt lakht: man proposes, G-d disposes (literally a man thinks, G-d laughs) |
just FYI, the words that have kh in them, like khisoron, nekhtiger, trakht, lakht, is actually pronounced like "ch" in the name Yocheved.
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amother
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Mon, Jan 11 2021, 4:28 pm
| Blessing1 wrote: | זאג נישט פאר דעם באשעפער ווי גרויס דיינע פראבלעמען זענען, זאג פאר דיינע פראבלעמען ווי גרויס דער באשעפער איז
Don't tell hashem how big your problems are, tell your problems how big hashem is. |
This one is how they say in Yiddish - moirahdik!!!
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amother
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Mon, Jan 11 2021, 4:42 pm
| Sprinkles1 wrote: | | No, thats exactly why for a fool you should not show 'half of the work' because he'll ask questions as if its finished. |
I also know that proverb with the word "nisht", and for the reason "Sprinkles1" wrote above. Also b/c show a foolish person a job half done, he'll be critical of what is lacking. And why is it lacking? B/c the job isn't yet completed. But, the fool doesn't think of that.
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amother
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Mon, Jan 11 2021, 4:52 pm
אז מען גייט שלאפן ווי א איד, שטייט מען אויף ווי א איד
If you go to sleep like a Yid, you will wake up like a Yid
loose meaning: if one says Shema in the proper way, prepares negel-vasser... things a Yid does before going to bed, then one will wake up "on the right foot" like a Yid - say Modeh Ani, recite bachos, daven, do mitzvos/chessed, have Jewish thoughts... - do things a Yid does.
This one speaks to me very much.
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amother
Azure
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Mon, Jan 11 2021, 5:19 pm
די בעסטע ליגענט איז דאס אמת
The truth is the best lie
געמאכט פון קאפ א שופר
It's hard to translate exactly, basically means why are you working so hard for something so simple
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oneofakind
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Mon, Jan 11 2021, 5:21 pm
Men Ken nisht tantzen by tzvei chasunos.
You can't dance at 2 weddings at once.
You can't be in two places at the same time.
I love this thread.
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silverlining3
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Mon, Jan 11 2021, 5:37 pm
Kenst nisht lernen an alta ber tantzen
You can't teach an old bear dancing
When one thinks they're too old to learn something new they'll often say the above.
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amother
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Mon, Jan 11 2021, 5:49 pm
עס ליגט מיך נאך אין די ביינער
When one explains that something eventful happens and it left a big impact
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yersp
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Mon, Jan 11 2021, 5:52 pm
I can't believe nobody said
אויפן גנב ברענט דאס היטל!
Unless someone did say it and I didn't see it....
I don't even know how to say it in English  . Loosely translated, the person who you think did it probably did because it's that obvious!
There are so many good expressions that loses it's קנאק once you need to translate it 
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silverlining3
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Mon, Jan 11 2021, 6:37 pm
| yersp wrote: | I can't believe nobody said
אויפן גנב ברענט דאס היטל!
Unless someone did say it and I didn't see it....
I don't even know how to say it in English . Loosely translated, the person who you think did it probably did because it's that obvious!
There are so many good expressions that loses it's קנאק once you need to translate it |
On the thiefs head burns the hat hahaha
The one who did it keeps on mentioning he didn't do it, tries to help you figure out who did it etc etc
I agree with losing its knak when translated... Like when you need to explain a joke to someone
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bbhem5
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Mon, Jan 11 2021, 7:29 pm
'A fayahrigen shnei' -
last year's snow (something that once was a big deal but means nothing now, there's nothing left of it
'Brent zich oif haisen, blust men oif kalten'-
If you burn yourself on something hot, you blow on something cold.
'Bei di naar iz di nevuah' -
By the fool is the nevuah.
'Ales in ainem iz nisht da ba keinem' -
Every (good) thing in one doesn't exist in anyone - no one (or nothing) is perfect
ETA- I always understood 'a toiteh bankes' to mean that the 'bankes', the cups, are 'dead' - meaning cold, useless.
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mommyW
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Mon, Jan 11 2021, 8:19 pm
A kliger redt veinig in tit asach, a nor redt asach in tit veinig!
A smart person talks little and does a lot, a stupid person talks a lot and does little.
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Blessing1
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Mon, Jan 11 2021, 8:22 pm
What about the old classics
מארגן נאכ'ן קיגל
I'll get to it eventually
א יאר מיט א מיטוואך
It's taking or took forever
אז מען רעדט פון די מלאך קומט דער גלח
It's said when a person that was just spoken about appears.
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Adela
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Sat, Jan 16 2021, 4:26 pm
געראטן ווי א אייער בייגל.
Anyone knows the original meaning of this one? 
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Adela
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Sat, Jan 16 2021, 4:28 pm
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ביזן קרעטשמע דארף מען אויך א טרינק
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Adela
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Sat, Jan 16 2021, 4:36 pm
וואס מען טוט, טוט מען פאר זיך אליין
Whatever you do you really end up doing for yourself.
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silverlining3
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Sat, Jan 16 2021, 5:13 pm
M'get ame a finger bait er a hont.
De nar shtipt dir.
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dankbar
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Sat, Jan 16 2021, 5:52 pm
ער האט פוטער אופ'ן קאפ
Er hut pitter oifen kup.
Similar to oifen ganev brent dus hittel.
He is acting suspicious because he must be guilty.
Reminds me of a fable we read in school, someone stole a tub of butter from the grocery.
The owner held him up, by inviting him to sit & relax at his fireplace until the butter started melting & drip down from under his hat onto his forehead....
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