It rains cats and dogs in English, ropes in French and strings in German. The middle of nowhere is where fox and hare say goodnight to each other in German, and the party is wherever the bear is tap-dancing.
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Il pleut des cordes lit. ‘it’s raining ropes’
Es regnet Bindfäden lit. ‘it’s raining string’
Llueve a cántaros lit. ‘it’s raining by the pitcher’
Piove a catinelle lit. ‘it’s raining by the basin’
バケツをひっくり返したような雨 baketsu o hikkurikaeshita yō na ame lit. ‘rain like an upturned bucket’
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Un froid de canard lit. ‘a duck cold’
Es ist saukalt lit. ‘it’s sow-cold’
Hace un frío que pela lit. ‘it’s a cold that peels’
Fa un freddo cane lit. ‘it’s a dog cold’
身を切るような寒さ mi o kiru yō na samusa lit. ‘a cold like it cuts your body’
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Au diable vauvert lit. ‘at the devil’s Vauvert’
Wo sich Fuchs und Hase gute Nacht sagen lit. ‘where fox and hare say goodnight’
En el quinto pino lit. ‘at the fifth pine’
A casa del diavolo lit. ‘at the devil’s house’
陸の孤島 riku no kotō lit. ‘an isolated island on land’
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À deux pas lit. ‘two steps away’
Ein Katzensprung lit. ‘a cat’s jump’
A tiro de piedra lit. ‘a stone’s throw’
A due passi lit. ‘two steps away’
目と鼻の先 me to hana no saki lit. ‘the tip between eyes and nose’
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No English idiom. Means: there's a lively party or a lot going on somewhere
Faire la java lit. ‘do the java’
Da steppt der Bär lit. ‘the bear is tap-dancing there’
No Spanish idiom yet
No Italian idiom yet
お祭り騒ぎ omatsuri sawagi lit. ‘festival uproar’
Phrases in bold with a red marker are written up. The rest are waiting for their own page and a check by a native speaker.