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Funnily, and ironically, enough, as a native French speaker, I would never translate "ce ne sont pas mes oignons" (litt. "those are not my onions") as "it's not
by lgeorget 3y ago
Funnily, and ironically, enough, as a native French speaker, I would never translate "ce ne sont pas mes oignons" (litt. "those are not my onions") as "it's not my cup of tea". To me, it actually means "it's none of my business".
- hinkley 3y agoEnglish to English has some problems too. “We’re not here to fuck spiders.”
- actionfromafar 3y agoThis is someone who knows their onions!
- phh 3y agoYup I have the same meaning as you. (I'm in north half of France in case someone says they don't)
- willyt 3y agoI’m glad you said that because I thought I knew that ‘mêle-toi de tes oignons’ meant ´mind your own business!’ and I was doubting myself after reading that.
- jaclaz 3y agoThere are many queer things in (past) translations, it is funny when they stick. In Italian we have the expression "la bellezza dell'asino" (which is "the beauty of the donkey" and it means - nonsensically - the kind of beauty/freshness that only young people can have and that will vanish with the passing of time). It derives from the combination of a typo with a "faithful" translation from French, the original “la beauté de l’âge” had been printed as “la beauté de l’âne” and translated directly to "la bellezza dell'asino".
- chinaman425 3y ago[dead]
- sdwr 3y agoNever heard that expression before, love it.
- colanderman 3y ago"Not my circus, not my monkeys" is my favorite English idiom of this meaning.