Enjoy corresponding idioms in different languages with through lovely illustrations: For example, the corresponding expressions for ‘It’s raining cats and dogs’ are ‘It’s raining thread’ (German), ‘It’s raining ropes (French), It’s raining washbasins (Italian). Please click on see examples.
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Blind as a bat in German is Blind as a mole. Language learners and -lovers will enjoy many more pairs of equivalent idioms, and children will be curious to discover foreign languages on idiomplanet.
“To have a change of heart” in French means “avoir un changement de cœur”. However, in French one would rather say “changer son fusil d’épaule”, in English “to change one’s gun to the other shoulder”.
