โKeep your stick on the ice.โ
Keep your stick on the ice.
Traditional Canada Wisdom
Source: Modern Canadian idiom popularized by the Canadian TV comedy 'The Red Green Show' (CBC, 1991โ2006); now a common everyday Canadian saying.
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โTie up your toque!โ
Attache ta tuque!
Traditional Canada Wisdom
Source: Traditional Quรฉbรฉcois (French-Canadian) expression, oral tradition.
โTo speak through one's hat.โ
Parler ร travers son chapeau.
Traditional Canada Wisdom
Source: Traditional Quรฉbรฉcois (French-Canadian) expression, oral tradition.
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โTo have a fir tree slipped to you.โ
Se faire passer un sapin.
Traditional Canada Wisdom
Source: Traditional Quรฉbรฉcois (French-Canadian) expression, oral tradition.
โOnly when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, and the last river poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.โ
Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, and the last river poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.
Traditional Canada Wisdom
Source: Commonly attributed to Cree (First Nations) oral tradition; exact origin and attribution are debated among scholars.
โIt's cold out.โ
Il fait frette.
Traditional Canada Wisdom
Source: Traditional Quรฉbรฉcois (French-Canadian) colloquial expression, oral tradition.