Sayings and Proverbs

Not sure exactly what the word Grousouzis means, but the general idea is that a person is very bad,d...

Leave them alone to take out their own eyes. A saying I heard while growing up by family members....

My paternal grandmother used to say that we were "only related to those Greeks who hung their clothe...

Conversations with Professor Nikos Petrochilos. Professor Nikos: Well... about the word "Romio...

01. You have at least one relative who wore a black dress every day for an entire year after a fune...

Literally - "what are we pulling". But metaphorically it is a form of lament..."why/how do we suf...

Literally translated - (s)he lives a good life...and hen(!?!?!) How the hen managed to cluck its...

Derived from the Turkish, meaning a sklavos, slave, or low-class person. Yet another of the many...

(S)He who has a lot of pepper, (also) puts its on his greens. Deriving from WWII, when supplies o...

I once remarked to my father, Christy Freeleagus, on the lack of appreciation, even ingratitude, I h...

Differentiate the mix (hilos) that you are making - from the spoon, with which you are making it....

"Bring it on back to me" - "eyo". A perons who is self-obsesed and self-interested. Traits th...

There are many words for a bad person in Greek - that were used on Kythera - but "ayarinos" signifie...

Signifying a parting of the ways. You go your way - and I'll go my way. Literally - "You take you...

When a person became very weak and debilitated it was said that they "didn't even have nails (on the...

A very common saying was/is Therio psofyo - which means "great one, (or giant) - dead". A round a...

Continuing to chronicle some of the more "puraksina" sayings. "May something (an evil spirit??) g...

May your eyes wither (and fail to function at all!) Some Kytherians "put downs" are truly - puruk...

An important and often used term in the Greek language. "This is a Greek term indicating a spirit...

There is a great Greek Australian web-site called Woglife, were younger Greek Australians pass on no...