I love learning new figures of speech in Spanish. "Por seguro...se va a llover"..... or "for sure its going to rain" is another way of saying "yeah right...I'll believe it when I see it".
The English language has hundreds of them. My favorite experience was in high school when the German exchange student living with a friend of mine asked if he could help us make a sandwich. He said "I really love to cut the cheese" which we thought was the funniest thing we had heard in awhile. He couldn't understand why we were laughing and responded with "what is wrong?....all I want to do is cut the cheese...".
Below is another example of someone making meaning of an English figure of speech...
