My hovercraft is full of eels in many languages

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This phrase is used in a sketch about a badly translated English-Hungarian phrasebook from the British TV comedy show, Monty Python's Flying Circus. There's a video of the sketch on YouTube and a transcript on this site.

It's possibly the most useful phrase there is, and a handy one to have when you're asked to say something in a language you're learning.

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The sketch this phrase comes from:

Translations and recordings of this phrase

https://tatoeba.org/fra/sentences/show/348790

https://youtu.be/9aaJZQpSgkY

Here are some new idioms I came up with based on this phrase:

a few eels short of a hovercraft = somewhat stupid / crazy

he has eels in his hovercraft = he's stupid / crazy

they took to it like eels to a hovercraft = easily, like ducks to water

as easy as filling a hovercraft with eels = as easy as falling off a log

can't see the hovercraft for the eels = can't see the wood for the trees

I could eat a hovercraft full of eels = I could eat a horse

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