Nationality-related idioms around Europe

[Maciamo]

I found these and thought that it was a great way to see how European perceive each others through stereotypes that made it into idioms in each language.






It's not "spacegoat" but scapegoat"!



















A lot of Europeans seem to agree that English people leave discreetly without saying goodbye. It was not mention in the French idioms, but it exists too ("Filer à l'anglaise" - "leave the English way"). The Swedes seem to think it is the French who leave without saying goodbye.

 

[Maciamo]

A few more.

 

[HereToLearn]

Interesting but I had never heard "andarsene all'inglese"

Also, in Italy we say "fumare come un turco/to smoke like a Turk" to mean someone who, of course, smokes a lot.