The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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