First one that springs to mind is “douche”, which in France just means “shower”.
Thus making bad Dracula movies (and Hotel Transylvania) hilarious in Russian.
This is a myth. From wiki:
Victorian prudery sometimes went so far as to deem it improper to say “leg” in formal company; instead, the preferred euphemism “limb” was used. Such ideas even pervaded seemingly unrelated aspects of daily life: there is a myth, started by Frances Trollope’s Domestic Manners of the Americans, and later applied to the British, that furniture such as tables were covered with embroidery and tablecloths so that table legs were hidden from view, but no historical evidence suggest that this was actually practiced.
That doesn’t sound good to me…
Huh. I have learned something new. I only ever thought of intoxicate as to get drunk or high, or loopily happy. None of which are the above.
Or librarie, which <> library.