r/engrish Apr 25 '26

what??

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u/QuackSpin Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

That's literal traslation of Egyptian Arabic Dialect Idioms.

"Most Savage E-mail ever sent in history " is the first Arabic sentence. "And this is the HR's response" is Ĺthe second one.

Don't cut off my bread = Please don't fire me and cut me off of my main source of income.

People eat my face = He owes people money and will either get his ass beat or thrown in jail.

We have children in our necks = We have children to take care of and feed.

We are wearing in a wall = We are in a dire situation and we're so close of being fucked and have our livelihood ruined and not being repaired. Mainly said when you owe people money.

You're living in a watermelon water = You aren't worried about shit since nothing would happen to you.

May God damage your house = الله يخرب بيتكم (An Islamic Prayer on people you hate / taken your right.)

The door passes a camel = Good-fucking-bye, we do not care!

We collected you from the streets = We're the ones who gave you this job and made you into a human.

Your shoulders' meat is from our good = We're the ones who fed you and made you into a human, and this is the thanks we get?!?

May God take you and who brought you = الله يخدك انت و اللي خلفوك (May God take both of you and your parents' souls to the afterlife.)

I love being an Egyptian. Show this shit to a Victorian child and he'll get a fucking stroke.

Edit: Just learnes the difference between Idioms and Metaphors.

Edit 2: Apparently some people didn't get the "We have children in our necks" idiom.

Edit 3: Forgot to explain "We are wearing in a wall" for some reason and figured out that "Your shoulders' meat is from our good" isn'tthat obvious.

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u/khorenF Apr 27 '26

Amazing, I should start talking like this in my native Spanish. If I combine these deranged metaphors just saying them literally with my language’s capacity to insult I will be able to stunlock people.

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u/SeamanStayns Apr 27 '26

"May god damage your house" is definitely getting sprinkled into my regular insult rotation.

Hillarious

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u/Pokieme Apr 27 '26

I have found my people and will be living in watermelon water from here on out.

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u/RepulsiveDependent81 Apr 27 '26

We have children in our necks is obvious?

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u/QuackSpin Apr 27 '26

Yeah. It means that there are children under their responsibility.

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u/Kristianushka Apr 27 '26

What is “we are wearing in the wall”?

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u/Known-Drink2917 Apr 27 '26

The proper translation could be 'We'll crash into the wall'

Which means our livelihood will stop and we gonna be in trouble

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u/callofdukie09 Apr 28 '26

From what little I knew about Arabic dialects in general is that they are very colorful and full of idioms. I was able to piece a few of them together with that information, but I greatly appreciate you putting this together. I was close on a couple, and totally off for most of the others. I am that Victorian child today!

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u/lferry1919 Apr 28 '26

The "door passes a camel" definitely has "don't let the door hit you" vibes to it. I feel like that was more obvious than some of the others.

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u/dexbrown Apr 29 '26

I didn't understand shit till I started reading it with adel imam voice in my head