5. When a Romanian likes something, she won’t say, “It’s cool.” She will say, “It’s concrete.” (E beton)
6. When a Romanian “plucks up the courage” to do something, he’ll say, “His heart is in his teeth.” (Își ia inima-n dinți)
7. When a Romanian is “surprised”, he will say that, “His face has fallen off.” (I-a picat fața)
8. A Romanian won’t refer to someone as “crazy,” Instead, he is “gone with the raft.” (Dus cu pluta)
9. When somebody is “confused,”, a Romanian will say, “She stares like a cat at a calendar.” (Se uită ca pisica în calendar)
10. You won’t make a Romanian “angry,” instead, you will “Take him out of his watermelons.” (Îl scoți din pepeni)
11. When a Romanian is “exhausted,” he will say that he is a “cabbage.” (Sunt varză)
12. For a Romanian, when something is completely “useless,” she will consider that thing, “as useful as a rub on a wooden leg.” (Frecție la picior de lemn)
13. When a Romanian gets very angry, “Her mustard will jump off.” (Îi sare muștarul)
14. Romanians don’t have “unusual ideas,” they have a “curly mind.” (Mintea creață)
15. A Romanian won’t lie to you, she will “sell you doughnuts.” (Îți vinde gogoși)
16. A Romanian won’t say that he “keeps quiet,” he will say that “he is silent like a pig in a corn field.” (Tace ca porcul în păpușoi)
17. A Romanian won’t say that “She is wrong.” She will say that “She throws his snot into the beans.” (Dă cu mucii în fasole)
18. When a Romanian has to “learn something by heart”, she will have to, “know it like the Lord’s Prayer.” (Să știe ca pe Tatăl Nostru)
19. If a Romanian thinks that a certain thing “will never happen”, he will say that it will happen, “at the horse’s Easter.” (La Paștele cailor)
20. A lazy Romanian person does not move slowly…she moves “like a dead person’s eye.” (Se mișcă ca ochiul mortului) 