Pitzutz

January 20, 2006 - 9:02 AM by

I was chatting with a friend the other day about slang in Israel.
Only in Israel – a site of many terrorist attacks – could the word ‘pitzutz‘ (definition: explosion) become a word to describe something amazing. You can say the ‘party was a pitzutz’ or that you ‘exploded’ with laughter.

Moreover, if you really love something… then you ‘die for it’ (met al zeh)…

‘Squandering the time’, which sounds better in Hebrew (haval al hazman) and to which a novice Hebrew speaker would sound like an insult is actually a huge compliment.

The examples are endless…

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