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Find an expression you like and submit your own  idiom-inspired story  in just 100 words (or less)! 

DAT IS SLA VAN EEN EEND

That is a duck's lettuce

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ESTAR HASTA EN LA SOPA

To be even on the soup

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BY DE NEUS NEMEN

To grab by the nose

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¡QUÉ TORTA!

What a cake!

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LIEGEN DAT JE ZWART ZIET

Lying that you see black.

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NO PEGAR UN OJO

To not hit an eye

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BOVEN ZIJN THEEWATER ZIJN

To be above one's tea water

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QUEDAR COMO LA GUAYABERA

To be left like the guayabera

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ANDERE KATTEN TE GESELEN HEBBEN

Have other cats to flog

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TENER SANGRE AZUL

To have blue blood

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MOSTER NA DE MALTIJD

Mustard after the meal

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SER UNA CHUPETICA DE AJO

To be a little garlic lollipop

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APPELS OP GOUDE BENNEN

Apples on golden legs.

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ESTAR ENRATONADO

To be mouse-ed

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DE KNUPPEL IN HET HOENDERHOK GOOIEN

To throw the bat into the henhouse

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QUEDARSE SIN EL CHIVO Y SIN EL MECATE

To be left without the goat or the rope

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BOTER AAN DE GALG SMEREN

To apply butter to the gallows

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TARDE PIASTE, PAJARITO

You tweeted late, little bird

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IEMAND STOKKEN IN DE WIELEN STEKEN

Put someone's sticks in the wheels

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SALIÓ EL TIRO POR LA CULATA

The shot came out from the stock

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EEN ZACHT GEKOOKT EITJE

A soft boiled egg

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LA GOTA QUE DERRAMÓ EL VASO

The drop that spilled the glass

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ALS EEN EZEL TUSSEN TWEE OPPERS HOOI STAAN

Like a donkey between two heads of hay

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ECHAR EL MUERTO

To throw the dead

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VARKENSVLEES ONDER DE ARMEN HEBBEN

To have pork under the arms

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