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10. While you might ask children “Why are you crying?”
Hungarians ask, “Miért itatod az egereket?”, meaning, “Why are you giving drinks to the mice?”.
+1. While you might say “It’s not worth the effort”
Hungarians say, “Annyit ér, mint halottnak a csók”, meaning, “It’s worth as much as a kiss to a dead
person”
- which is quite dark and so not one to use too often most probably!