Our favorite may just be China's, "Chen yu iuo yan," which translates to "diving fish, swooping geese."
DTI explains a beautiful and rather tragic phrase: "It is a reference to two of the most famous ancient beauties of China: one so beautiful that when she looked into a pond the fish forgot to swim and sank to the bottom; the other, made the geese forget to flap their wings."
Beauty kills just about anywhere in the world.
Here are some more mentioned in the article:
Japanese: "tamago gata no kao" or "an egg with eyes"
The phrase touts what is considered an attractive look.
Persian: "moosh bokhoradet" or "may a mouse eat you"
Sometimes you look good enough for a rodent to devour.
French: "mon petit chou" or "my little cabbage"
Just about anything can be adorable when it's small.
Hungarian: "bogarkam" or "my little insect"
This includes the normally dreaded realm of the insect, which is in an odd way complimentary in Hungary.
German: "Zaubermaus" or "magic mouse"
This truly awesome phrase is normally relegated to wives or daughters, so keep this one in your pocket.
Polish: "kruzynko" or "breadcrumb"
While a nuisance on your shirt of sleeve, a breadcrumb is absolutely lovely in Poland.
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