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JAPONCA → TR
Tanım
•everyone and their dog; literally “cats and ladles too”
Diğer Dillerde
İspanyolcaciento y la madre
a lot of people; everyone and their mother
köken: Literally, “one hundred and the mother”.
İsveççefan och hans moster, varenda jävel, varenda käft, varenda kotte
Indicates items left out at the end of an enumeration (of unpleasant or tiring things).
köken: fan (“the devil”) + och (“and”) + hans (“his”) + moster (“maternal aunt”)
Utflykten var ett helvete. Mygg och regn och snålblåst och punktering och fan och hans moster.
Macarcaboldog-boldogtalan /ˈboldoɡ ˌboldoktɒlɒn/
anyone, Tom, Dick and Harry, all and sundry, the whole world, the whole world and his dog, all the world and his wife, all and sundry (everybody without distinction)
köken: boldog (“happy”) + boldogtalan (“unhappy”)
gda h-uile mac-màthar, mac-màthar, nighean-mhàthar