Lost in Translation

Ask a Greek grandmother what something means, and you'll get an answer that makes perfect sense in Greek and absolutely none in English, because somewhere in translation, chairs started raining from the sky, people turned into bunches of grapes, and someone's mind wandered off to be with the sheep.
Lost in Translation is a collection of Greek sayings that flatly refuse to behave when translated word-for-word into English, and the stories, arguments, and kitchen-table wisdom behind them. From food ("The pot found its lid") to anger ("I am at the bars"), from waiting ("I don't see the hour") to fate ("God has it painted"), each saying gets its literal translation, its real meaning, and the cultural context that makes it click.
Equal parts language lesson and love letter to a culture that says everything sideways, this is a book for anyone who has ever been confused, delighted, or quietly terrified by something their Greek relative said with total confidence and zero explanation.
The donkey grew old, bought a saddle. Read on. It'll make sense eventually.