In Finnish we have “kissanristiäiset” (literally means a cat’s christening), which means some trivial and meaningless celebration/event.

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    1 year ago

    In the Sesotho language of Lesotho, if you say to someone, “I’m not your mother”, it’s a terrible insult.

    Another insult of equal vehemence is, “you are like a cat that jumps across a ravine and scribbles up the other side”.

    People in the village I lived in told me that either of these could result in someone being killed.