Little German Humor - Life as a Veggie

Translation for beginning learners:

"Oh, great ... he's cut himself." "In a moment, all of us are going to cry..."

Fun German Expression for English Phrase to Get into Trouble

The English phrase: To get into trouble, to get into hot water or to to put oneself in a spot can have a fun expression in German: Sich in die Nesseln setzen. Means literally: To sit down in stinging nettles.

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The Englisch Expression to Take a Cup too Much in German

The English phrase: to take a cup too much, to have a drop too much = in German: zu tief ins Glas schauen / gucken. This German expression means literally that one looks too deep into the glass, in other words that the person is drunk, has had too much alcohol.

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English Expression to Throw in the Towel in German

The English expression: 'to throw in the towel' = in German: 'das Handtuch werfen'. The actual meaning is the same in English and German in this case. 'To throw in the towel' means that someone gives up, admits defeat or surrenders.

das Handtuch werfen = to throw the towel

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German Expression for English Phrase to do something effortless

An amusing German expression for saying: to do something without much effort, effortless or I could do it on my head = I kann das im Schlaf. Literal meaning: I can do that asleep.

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Weekly Food for Thought: Enjoy the Moment

Here is your weekly food for thought: Enjoy the Moment - Genieße den Moment

Live in the past,

if you want to be sad.

Live in the future,

if you want to be anxious.

If you want to be happy, 

Enjoy the moment!

Funny German Expression for English Phrase to Tell Somebody off or Show Somebody up

The English expression: to show someone up, to tell somebody off = Means in German: Jemandem aufs Dach steigen. Essentially: to climb on someone's roof

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German Phrase for English Expression to Party or to Have it Going on

English expression: All hell breaks loose, to celebrate, to have it going on. A funny German phrase is for example: Da steppt der Bär (literal translation: the bear is tap-dancing)

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German Expression for English Phrase to Be Plastered

The German expression for the English term: To be intoxicated, drunk, stoned, tipsy, plastered = Einen Affen sitzen haben

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German Expression for English Phrase to Smell a Rat

The German idiom for the English term: To smell a rat = den Braten riechen, means essentially: to smell the roast. Implying: to assume / think that something is wrong; to pick up that someone has actually triggered something wrong.

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German Expression: Der Springende Punkt

The English translation for: Der springende Punkt = the point of the matter, the nub of the matter, the vital concern, the point

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German Expression for English Term To Die

The German translation for the English expression: To kick the bucket, to snuff it, to die = den Löffel abgeben

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German Expression for English Term Everything is OK

The English phrase: "Everything is OK" means in German: "Alles in Butter!" (literally: Everything is in butter)

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German Expression for English Term to Be on the Wrong Track

The German words: Auf dem Holzweg sein = in English: To be on the wrong track, to bark up the wrong tree

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German Phrase for English Expression to Be in the Dark

German translation for English expression: To be in the dark = im Dunkeln tappen

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German Expression for English Phrase March to a Different Drummer

The German translation for the English words: To march to a different drummer, to march to a different tune (to get out of line) = aus der Reihe tanzen. 

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German Expression for English Phrase To Be In the Boondocks

The German expression for the English expression: To be in the boonbocks = Am Arsch der Welt. Example: He lives out in the boondocks. - Er lebt am Arsch der Welt. It means that it is far away and hard to get to.

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Another German Expression for English Phrase To Drive Someone Up The Wall

The English expression: It drives you up the wall, drives you crazy - In German: Es ist zum Mäusemelken! (It makes me milk a mouse!).

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German Expression for English Phrase To Drive Someone Up The Wall

The German expression for the phrase: to drive a person up the wall, to drive someone insane, to make a person mad: Jemanden auf die Palme bringen

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German Phrase for English Expression to Pull Every Word out of Someone

The German phrase for the English expression: To pull every word out of someone - Jemandem etwas aus der Nase ziehen (Indicates: having a difficult time to get any type of information out of a person, it feels like pulling teeth).
Example:
Sie fragte Ihren Freund, wo er letzte Nacht gewesen war. Er zuckte nur mit den Schultern. Sie musste ihm jedes Wort aus der Nase ziehen. - She asked her boyfriend, where he had been last night. He just shrugged his shoulders. She had to pull every word out of him.

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