Spectator

Sometimes when I dream,
I know that I am dreaming.
But still I’m passive.

Das Roter Stier

Guess where Red Bull's from.
You'd think America, right?
Nope. It's Austria.

Snow!

Oh, beautiful snow!
Pure blanket! Make the world new!
(But I'll stay indoors.)

New Rome

Is this the twilight
of U.S. supremacy?
Rome lasted longer.

Debts

I pay debts in time,
the only true currency
I have to my name.

Found in Translation - Part 3

There's nothing super-wrong about this, grammar-wise (which is more than I can say for this sentence), but the enterprising individual or individuals who decided to market this gold mine phrase forgot that idioms don't always survive translation.



At first I assumed that "angle" was a misspelling of 'angel', but since I don't know what treating someone "like potato" means (not "a potato", mind you, just "potato"), I'm willing to admit that calling someone your angle means something that I don't know about. Perhaps it is the antithesis of potato.

Gifts?

"Naughty" versus "nice"?
Seems Jolly Old St. Nick loves
that works righteousness.