I´m starting a thread for posting slang - originally suggested by teaschip.......

Post some slang here along with the literal translation if there is one and what it means in the slang context.    This works both ways - Turkish slang translated to English or English slang translated to Turkish.   Or alternatively, if you can´t translate it........just an explanation of what it really means.

OK - I´ll start this off with one of the few bits of Turkish slang that  know........

kafam güzeldi

literal translation - my head was beautiful

slang meaning - I was drunk

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AÐZININ ÝÇÝNE DÜÞMEK: dropping into someone´s mouth..

It is used to in cases:

-to like someone very much ; to do anything to be close to her/him

-listening to a person admiringly

An English saying.........

to hit the sack

has nothing to do with sacks.......

it means:

to go to bed - yataða girmek

The idiom hit the road has nothing to do with being aggressive towards infrastructure. It means to depart, yola koyulmak

"Kick up the a**e" means "to get someone to do something" in other words they are lazy

"Have you got an eye full?"  means "why are you staring at me"?

It´s raining cats and dogs:  Means it is raining very heavily!

Sorry I don´t know how to translate it to Turkish

in Turkish slang, -yorum sometimes becomes -yom (:

e.g; Ben seni seviyorum becomes: Ben seni Seviyom.

That´s about all the slang I know x)

that`s not slang, in the eastern accents, -yorum becomes -yom or -yim, so that`s something dealing with accents.

we use the same idiom in Turkish; "yollara vurmak"

I´ve never heard that one.......although I think I could guess its meaning based on context!!!

 It´s a fen thing

similar to "do you want a picture"?

Noooo - not just a fen thing!  Have you got an eyefull - that expression´s been going for years

Kafam zonk zonk zonkluyordu - my head was throbbing

(not sure if that´s actually slang - but I just like the way it sounds!)

I hear there is a kegger at  femme´s house tonight.  (beer party)

Lis decided to five finger discount the wine at the translation lounge. (steal)

 I wouldn´t have to take the five finger discount if handsom wasn´t such a cheap skate!!

 A what? Sometimes I have enough trouble to understand ´normal´ English.... so slang?

 The next time I see him, I´ll give him a knuckle sandwich from you.

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learn and have fun

i know only one slangish word DUDU

 yeah, you bed amerikans, if only could translate your slangs to normal  

I wonder if the time is right yet to venture into the big bad world of Cockney Rhyming Slang

That wouldn´t be of too much use, would it? All I know is bees and honey

To understand it you have to rabbit and pork it from a basin of gravy!!!

Though not strictly slang a common expression in my local boozer is "slan juh va". I won´t bore you with the gaelic spelling but it means "þerefe". Indeed if you want to impress a scotsman just buy him a large whisky and utter the words slan juh va.

 SLAN JUH VA!!!!!   (I hope this impresses you )

After I have come from the "all time looser" (boozer (or pub))  I will be off up the "apples and pears"  (stairs)

From the west coast of Scotland

Glesca kiss or Glesca handshake = headbutt 

 We have both also in Arabic ´Egyptian´ using same sentences and wordings but arabic ones.

my favorite expression is "wind your neck in!......which means calm down

Don´t get your knickers in a twist!  - another one for calm down

Let´s have a butcher´s   - let me see

Like saying im all tied up, but it actually means im really busy

(lol, that ones too obviuos )

really? What are they?

 Sry doudi,i was away and just saw it

Ýts ...."Have you got an eye full?"  ..mallet ainak khalas ?!

"do you want a picture....3ayez takhod sourah ? or

 Matakhodli sourah ahsan ´better take a picture of me ?!´ last one add more sarcasm to it.

arse-about-face: something that is in a mess or crooked

Rubber Neck - A tourist! Given that name because they sit on buses and look one direction at a view, then another, then another...

the closest thing I know is redneck!

Redneck Swimming Pool

 It does indeed - but what about when you really are all tied up literally

 Oohhhhh. You evil Brit! You know I don´t understand slang!

 mwahaha

´nato kafa nato mermer´

it translates as ´this is the head, this is the marble´  literally..

It is commonly used by the teachers and by the parents. It implies that your head is like a piece of marble, your head is made of stone..

 I thought you would be Brahms and Liszt?

You should know that there are two types of people in this world.......

Those that can count and those that cannot count