What about similar oddities in English?
(This question is inspired by this comic by https://www.exocomics.com/193/ (link found by BunScientist@lemmy.zip)) Edit: it's to its in the title. Damn autocorrect.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

And the alarm goes off means it actually starts ringing. Weird language indeed!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    And this might just be a UK thing but if a person goes off it means they get really angry. And it can mean to leave for somewhere.

    So a firework goes off which makes the fire alarm go off which makes the safety officer go off. Then he goes off to get a fireman. But he leaves the milk out, so it goes off.

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