What are some expressions in your country that use foreign countries/peoples?

What are some expressions in your country that use foreign countries/peoples?

In Brazil:
>a French shower is when you change clothes and put on perfume/deodorant without actually showering beforehand
>a Greek gift is present you get, usually but not necessarily something large and unwieldy, that you'll never have a use for
>when you're only pretending to do something you should, you're doing it for the English to see. Because back in the 1800s Britain started demanding that we end the slave trade, so we made a law abolishing it, but we didn't actually enforce the law. It was in the books just so the English could see that it the slave trade was in fact illegal.

SMOKE LIKE A TURK = smoke like a cimney

BE A PORTUGUESE = to crash a party / to not pay tickets to concerts / football matches etc

SPANISH (spagnola) = titjob

We call French shower Russian shower. Also:
Arab work=shoddy work
Irish bridge=improvised bridge (got that from the Brits)

We have polish bath (baño polaco)

Anatolian-meaning backward people
Like the horse in Montenegro- overdoing something
You're not in Honolulu-stop acting uncivily
Turk head-scapegoat
Have you ever been to China-Get to the point

>Anatolian-meaning backward people

Reminds me: we use "Hourani" (as in a person from the Houran region in Syria) to mean a savage, uncouth person.

> French goodbye
When you leave without saying goodbye

> work like a black man / work like a Chinese
Work hard

> fool someone like a Chinese
Fool someone completely

> pretend to be Swedish
Pretend you don't understand

> drink like a Cossack
Drink a lot of booze

> English hide-and-seek
Red light green light

> a lunch for black people
A chaotic situation where people don't cooperate

> Turk's head
Scapegoat

(OP)
>branlette espagnole(Spanish)
means a boobjob. Branlette has no direct translation, but it roughly means wobbling your penis to masturbate, a self-handjob
>a Spanish inn
a place where you can find everything
>Speaking French like a Spanish cow
speaking French very badly

>the English have landed
being on your period for women
>taking an English leave
leaving without saying goodbye
>Taking a Scottish bath
Being treated badly

>Turk's head
scapegoat
>the great black [person]
someone who pretends to know everything
>It's Byzantium
it's luxurious

>eye of Moscow
somebody that spies on others

>stubbing one's little Jew
stubbing your ulnar nerve

>It's not [worth the country of] Peru
It's a modest sum/it's not much

Greek gift is a shitty gift, not necessarily a useless one. There is also "indian's program", when you're out (usually taken out by someone) but it turns out to be shit.
And "speaking in German" = being unintelligible

>>the English have landed
>being on your period for women

If something is greek to me - it means something is foreign and unknown

Russian/russian fap = titjob

>work like a nigger
work hard
>being french
being a faggot

probably more but I'm to lazy to think about them

espanhola is also the way we say boobjob here in Brazil

why do you love the chinese so much

HE SPEAK IN ARABS = I don't undestand what he is saying
TO BE LIKE A SWISS CLOCK= To be on time and not late

lost German = being completely lost somewhere
be indebted like a Greek - obvious, and it was used before the crisis was even in the news

in canada we have a saying called a "brazillian man"

generally this refers to a stinky, short, brown, ugly man

speaking greek = non-sense phase

wut

My grandma usually calls assholes camels or chinese.

IN CANADA WE HAVE A SAYING CALLED A "BRAZILLIAN MAN"

GENERALLY THIS REFERS TO A STINKY, SHORT, BROWN, UGLY MAN

Dutch Oven

Irish goodbye is leaving without telling anyone.

Spraying cologne/perfume instead of showering is a Puerto Rican shower.

>a lunch for black people
>that definition

Kek

Ayyrab shower here

We call that a Maori shower

>>a French shower is when you change clothes and put on perfume/deodorant without actually showering beforehand

Funny, this is called a Dominican or Brazilian shower where I'm at.

Italian tuneup - drive a car at redline for extended periods

There's something called "Indian giver" which is used to describe someone who gives a gift but then later asks for it back. I believe the term "Indian" in this case is in reference to Aboriginals though, and not people from the Republic of India.

a pommy shower is using handfuls of water from the sink to clean your armpits and random bits of your body

Hobo shower.