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

AGARRAR A ALGUIEN CON LAS MANOS EN LA MASA

To catch someone with the hands on the batter

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ZICH DE KAAS VAN HET BROOD LATEN ETEN

To let the cheese eat from the bread

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ESTAR ENGUAYABADO

To be guava-ed

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ER HET MES INZETTEN

To insert the knife

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COMO HALLACA MAL AMARRADA

Like a badly tied hallaca

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OP DE KLOOSTERS REIZEN

Travel on the monasteries

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LLEGAR A FREÍR TEQUEÑOS

Arriving to fry tequeños

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DE OLIE IN DE LAMP IS OP

The oil in the lamp has run out

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HABER GATO ENCERRADO

There's a locked up cat

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OP DE KLIPPEN LOPPEN

To walk on the cliffs

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COMO SARDINAS EN LATA

Like sardines in a can

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ERGENS MET DE PET NAAR GOOIEN

To throw something with the cap

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SER UN CERO A LA IZQUIERDA

To be a zero to the left

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GEEN ZITVLEES HEBBEN

To have no sitting meat

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TENER LOS CABLES CRUZADOS

To have the cables crossed

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ZICH MET VIJGENBLADEN DEKKEN

To cover onself with fig leaves

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DAR EN EL CLAVO

To hit the nail

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IETS LANGS JE KOUDE KLEREN AF LATEN GLIJDEN

To let something slide down your cold clothes

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NO TENER PELOS EN LA LENGUA

To have no hair in one's tongue

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IEMAND HET VOLLE POND GEVEN

To give someone the full pound

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SOPLAR EL BISTEC

To blow the steak

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HET IS NAAR DE MAAN

It is to the moon

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HABLAR POR LOS CODOS

To talk through the elbows

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IEMAND VOOR HET LAPJE HOUDEN

To keep someone for the patch

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HACER OJITOS

To make little eyes

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