>>>>Spanish villages? I know where czech villages (Böhmische Dörfer) comes from, but spanish I have no idea. :)
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>>>We also say spanish villages. And you are correct, the "I have no idea" is the actual meaning of the expression :)
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>>>BTW, there was a fad here, a couple of years ago, to build sentences like "in Spain, the spanish villages are called just villages".
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>>and I would have guessed at something like pueblo or aldea...
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>Ok, the right english idiom is "It's all Greek to me."
>Hmm, Greek and EU...

works in german translation as well, even if not too often used nowadays.

As for the EU, I am certain some politician will be spineless enough to fold