Gifts for People Living Abroad: 12 Ideas That Actually Land
What to give someone who already moved everything they own once. Twelve gift ideas for expats and immigrants, ordered by how much they actually mean.
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Japanese Proverbs About Failure: 8 Phrases on Falling and Getting Back Up
Even monkeys fall from trees, fall seven times get up eight, three years on a rock: eight Japanese proverbs about failing well, with the original, the reading and the meaning.
Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys: Meaning, Origin and How to Use It
The Polish proverb English adopted whole. Where “nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy” comes from, what it really means, and the moments it is exactly the right thing to say.
12 Colombian Sayings and What They Actually Mean
No dar papaya, vamos a ver dijo un ciego, el que nace pa’ tamal: twelve Colombian sayings, translated literally and then explained the way a Colombian would explain them.
15 Untranslatable Sayings From Around the World (And What They Really Mean)
From “not my circus, not my monkeys” to “gold coins to a cat”: fifteen sayings that make total sense at home and none at all abroad, with the original, the literal translation and the real meaning.
