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Re: Swedish idioms
« on: August 05, 2004, 09:08:57 PM »
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T_Bone wrote:
What about the phrase "Like a fart in a mitten?" I heard that was a popular saying, is this true?


I haven´t heard that but something similar.
"He ran around like a thumbfart."
"Han for runt som en tummafis"

Its probably refering to the same thing. That bubble of air that sometimes got trapped in the mittens when you was a kid.
It´s rather dialectal.
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