minden pofon jó helyre megy

Hungarian

Etymology

From minden (“every”) +‎ pofon (“slap”) +‎ jó (“good, right”) +‎ hely (“place”) +‎ -re (“to”) +‎ megy (“to go”), literally “every slap goes to a right place”.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmindɛn ˈpofon ˈjoː ˈhɛjrɛ ˈmɛɟ]

Phrase

minden pofon jó helyre megy

  1. (idiomatic) used to describe infighting where the speaker is happy due to being against all of the involved parties
    • 2024 May 15, Nagy Márta, Orbán Sopronban: A baloldalon minden pofon jó helyre megy‎[1]:
      Az ellenzéket elintézte annyival, hogy ott most „nagy a tülekedés”, bele se kell avatkozni az eseményekbe, mert „ott minden pofon jó helyre megy”.
      He [Orbán] dismissed the opposition by saying that there is "a lot of commotion" there now, there is no need to intervene in the events because "every slap in the face there goes to the right place."

Conjugation

  • For the verb, see the indefinite conjugation of megy (always used in the third person singular).
  • The rest of the phrase remains unchanged.
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