Ski Idioms From Around The World

• French - On se pèle les miches – we are peeling our buttocks – it’s very cold

• Italian - Pennellare le curve – to brush the curves – to corner perfectly

• English – to find snow sharks – to find rocks under the snow

• French - Il n'est pas venu acheter du terrain – he didn’t come here to buy the land – to ride at full speed

• Norwegian - et bakgårdssalg – a yard sale – a spectacular wipe out that results in a trail of debris

• French - On dérape – we slip – we are going to the snow park

• English – to get a mackerel smack – a hard snowboard forward fall

• Finnish - Suksia kuuseen - to ski up a fir tree - go away