Hilarious Idioms
Isn't it funny how we accept our own idioms as quite logical but often idioms in other languages seem so hilarious. 
We know 'to pull someone's leg' has the Spanish equivalent of 'tomar el pelo' - but did you know that in Russian they say 'to hang noodles on someone's ears'?
That cracked me up.
It's nearly as good as the French one: which is the equivalent of 'bang your butt on the ground': meaning - 'to die laughing' or the Yiddish one 'plucked like a chicken' for - exhausted
Do anyone know any Spanish idioms that are as funny?
3 Answers
Not as funny as banging your butt on the ground, but two I found were "ve a ver si ya puso la marrana" (Go see if the pig laid an egg), meaning go fly a kite and "Vete a freír espárragos" (Go fry aparagus), similar but ruder in meaning.
Actually, there is many different phrases in Spanish. They may not have as crazy literal meanings as noodles hanging from your ear, but there are some interesting ones. In México, when you say, "me cae bien", the literal definition is "He fell me good". Another one is "a golpe de calcetín", which figuratively means I could do it with my eyes closed, or something like that. However, literally, it means by hit of sock. 
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