There 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 beau

There 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".