Mayday is the word used around the world to make a distress call via radio communications. Mayday signals a life-threatening emergency, usually on a ship or a plane, although it may be used in a variety of other situations. Procedure calls for the mayday distress signal to be said three times in a row — Mayday!
There was an old joke about a court translator translate a Sinhala sentence in to English.
A witness said " OWUN UNA GAHAK YATA ANA GATHTHAA"
Translator translate this as below.
They took some nails under a fever tree.