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I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World
Jag Bhalla
National Geographic
June 2009
On Sale: June 16, 2009
272 pages
ISBN: 1426204582
EAN: 9781426204586
Paperback
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Humor
"I’m not hanging noodles from your ear." In Moscow, this
curious, engagingly colorful assertion is common parlance,
but unless you’re Russian your reaction is probably "Say
what?" The same idea in English is equally odd: "I’m not
pulling your leg." Both mean: Believe me. As author Jag Bhalla demonstrates, these amusing, often
hilarious phrases provide a unique perspective on how
different cultures perceive and describe the world.
Organized by theme—food, love, romance, and many more—they
embody cultural traditions and attitudes, capture linguistic
nuance, and shed fascinating light on "the whole ball of
wax." For example, when English-speakers are hard at work,
we’re "nose to the grindstone," but industrious Chinese toil
"with liver and brains spilled on the ground" and busy
Indians have "no time to die." If you’re already fluent in 10 languages, you probably won’t
need this book, but you’ll "get a kick out of it" anyhow;
for the rest of us, it’s a must. Either way, this
surprising, often thought-provoking little tome is
gift-friendly in appearance, a perfect impulse buy for word
lovers, travelers, and anyone else who enjoys looking at
life in a riotous, unusual way. And we’re not hanging
noodles from your ear.
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