Local phrases which best describe you country of origin

[Anonymous No.20622932]

I'll start with germany:

>Im Führerbunker brennt noch Licht.
"In the leaders bunker the light still shines."
Meaning: The one calling the shots doesn't yet think it's time to quit.
Example: Baby is hyped playing with his new toy. Mother is sleepy, both parents are exhausted. Father trying to tell mother that baby doesn't even think about going to bed: "Im Bunker brennt noch Licht, Schatz."

>Ich hab noch Wurst im Auto.
"I have sausages in the car."
Meaning: An humouros excuse to leave early (due to the perishable nature of raw sausages).
Example: You're at a lame party and a fat uggo chick wants to talk to you. You say: Tut mir Leid, ich kann nicht bleiben, hab noch Wurt im Auto." (Sorry, i can't stay, I have sausages in my car.) and leave.

Give me your best.

[Anonymous No.20623046]

>>20622932
Ha, I don't know either of those two phrases. Is it very local? In which Bundesland do you live?

[Anonymous No.20623067]

>>20622932
Are you swabian? You sound like one of those retards.

[Anonymous No.20623070]

>>20623046
I don't know if it's a regional thing, but might very well be. I'm from NRW/ Pott.

[Anonymous No.20623081]

>>20623067
>t. fat uggo chick
Maybe hang a Kotlett around your neck next time?

[Anonymous No.20623133]

Things my 65 year old Denton county cross country coach would say. pic related is basically him
>Does a one legged duck swim in circles?
basically means the same thing as does a bear shit in the woods.
>dont squat on your spurs
think before acting
>That dog dont hunt
used to describe an idea that wont work. a prediction of failure
>all hat, no cattle
self explanitory

[Anonymous No.20623145]

>>20623133
>>all hat, no cattle
kek thats a good one

[Anonymous No.20623158]

>>20623081
Okay zoomer. Go back to BaWü when youre done being a retail monkey in Berlin and Vienna.

[Anonymous No.20623191]

>>20623070
Never heard them here in Hessen. But I like the first one. Can't remember some local ones right now,.

[Anonymous No.20623214]

>>20623158
I'm from Dortmund, Kevin.

>>20623133
>all hat, no cattle
>self explanitory
Mind still explaining it? I don't get the connection between a hat and a cow. Either way, great contributions.

[Anonymous No.20623238]

>>20623214
My apologies Selim.

[Anonymous No.20623247]

>>20623214
Comes from people wearing cowboy hats as fashion, but are not cowboys, i.e., pretentious, phony, a poser.
Description of a person that is all talk and no substance; full of big talk but lacking action; a person who cannot back up his/her words; a fake; a pretender.

[Anonymous No.20623282]

>>20623247
Ah, I suspected as much but I thought that would have been too stereotypical. kek. Makes it even more fitting as a description.

[Anonymous No.20623306]

>>20623282
another one that comes to mind is
>sweating like a whore in church
mostly just said to be funny but I reckon it can also mean you are nervous or anxious

[Anonymous No.20623332]

>Beat like a rented mule
To work or abuse mercilessly.

[Anonymous No.20623335]

>as useless as tits on a bull

[Anonymous No.20623347]

>small like a farted barge near such a large kodiak bear

[Anonymous No.20623371]

>>20623347
I live inside inside my own gnostic stubblebine aneurysms

[Anonymous No.20623380]

>>20623306
>sweating like a whore in church
top kek
I love how through this kind of humour and phrases you can basically pinpoint a communities most essential views of the world. Do you know if there is a book on that topic in english? I have multiple explaining different, even "extinct" ones from germany and from latin. Would make a great addition.

One of my personal favorites from "Sprichwörter des alten Roms":
>Infelix, cui omnia licent
Unhappy those which are free to do everything

>>20623347
kek

[Anonymous No.20623436]

"if it was a snake it would have bit me."

>I overlooked something obvious, I should have been paying closer attention

I believe this originated from Texas but I learned it from a movie

[Anonymous No.20623445]

>>20623380
Dummheit frisst, Intelligenz säuft

[Anonymous No.20623624]

>>20623445
>stupidity gorges, intelligence guzzles
The more you think about it, the more it reflects reality.

[Anonymous No.20623701]

>>20622932
"Right. Kick her in the guts Trev." - To get things started/Let's begin.
"Rattle your dags." - Hurry up.

[Anonymous No.20624048]

>>20623701
Where are you from?

[Anonymous No.20624998]

>>20624048
A British Dominion within Her Majesty's Empire.

[Anonymous No.20625666]

>>20624998
How cute, kiwi cunt!

[Anonymous No.20626342]

>>20623335
Never heard of it.

[Anonymous No.20626378]

>>20622932
Not really any sayings but potholes and Handels ice cream come to mind

[Anonymous No.20626385]

>>20626378
We also say Wursh for Wash and Ruhf for Roof

[Anonymous No.20626402]

>>20622932
>Tirar o cavalinho da chuva

Translates to "take your horse out of the rain" and means to give up hoping for something because it will not happen


>Amigo da onça

Translates to "friend of the jaguar", it's the person who you thought to be your friend actually betrays you

[Anonymous No.20626423]

>>20622932
>Cada macaco no seu galho

Translates to "every monkey on it's branch" and means that you should only worry about your own problems

>Mala sem alça

Translates to "suitcase without a handle" and means a type of very annoying person that shows up to places without being invited

[Anonymous No.20626446]

>>20626402
>>20626423
Nice, very very nice. Especially as it's so rare to get to know those non-anglo ones.

[Anonymous No.20626457]

>>20622932
Nutzlos wie die Hoden vom Papst
Useless as the testicles from the pope

[Anonymous No.20626465]

>a man's not a camel
as in, he gets thirsty, needs an alcoholic beverage or some snatch,etc

[Anonymous No.20626553]

>>20623046
Never heard either in Bavaria either desu.

[Anonymous No.20626584]

>>20623046
>>20623067
>>20623070
Me neither, but if I'd bet a dollar they're from some ossi shithole.

[Anonymous No.20626590]

"She'll be right"
Australian for the problem will solve itself.

[Anonymouṡ No.20626608]

>>20622932
>"I have sausages in the car."
>Meaning: An humouros excuse to leave early (due to the perishable nature of raw sausages).

On this board we say: "I have to return some videotapes". [Has any anon tried this one IRL?]

[Anonymous No.20626609]

>>20626584
I got them from studying in Düsseldorf while now living in Dortmund. All you Bambus-Björns need to get a social life.

[Anonymous No.20626613]

>>20626608
Considering how most zoomies don't even know what a tape is anymore, I somehow doubt that they'll get it.

[Anonymous No.20626622]

>>20622932
German phrases annoy me, because most of them are so unromantic.

>"Sein Senf dazugeben"
"Add his mustard"
Meaning: the act of always saying their opinions or thoughts on a matter, regardless if they're relevant or appreciated.
Comes from: when mustard was still a fancy spice, chefs wanting to stand out used to add it to every dish, regardless if it even would taste good.

>"Blau machen"
"Make blue"
Meaning: Skipping out on work/school and/or getting drunk.
Example: Johnny is making Blue today and tomorrow.
Comes from: the dye business. Blue dye used to take the longest to make, and involved a lot of long stretches of waiting. During that time there wasn't much to do- so the workers would lounge around and drink.

[Anonymouṡ No.20626630]

>>20623133
I love these dry laconic Texan sayings. (You meet them quite often in Cormac McCarthy.) A few examples:

— "He couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the instructions on the heel."

— "If that's not a lie it'll do until a lie comes along."

— "It's not a lie but it's as close as you can get to one without falling in."

— "People in hell want ice-water."

[Anonymous No.20626640]

>>20626630
>"People in hell want ice-water."
one of my dad's favorites. He also liked:
"He can't tell duck-shit from apple-butter."

[Anonymouṡ No.20626668]

>>20626622
But some German compound nouns are great. e.g.

— Backpfeifengesicht = "face that should be slapped"
— Drachenfutter = "dragon-fodder" = gift to placate your wife after you've made her angry

I had a go at inventing some of these. e.g.

— Rolltreppenichtstehe = "escalator-not-stand", = someone who walks on an escalator, i.e. a bustling, go-getting type

[Anonymous No.20626688]

>>20626668
Yeah, but they still sound goofy. It's really frustrating trying to write seriously, when a surprising amount of the language is goofy shit.

[Anonymous No.20626694]

>>20626622
>unromantic
German is a weapon but we have those which are more sentimental, like:

>Wie in Fels in der Brandung.
"Like a rock in the face of a surge of waves."
Meaning: Strong and unswerving. Mainly used to describe a loved one giving you strength in times of despair.
Example: Anon cuddling his dakimakura and tenderly telling it "Was würde ich nur ohne dich machen, du bist mein Fels in der Brandung." (What would I do without you, you're my rock in the sea).

>alte Liebe rostet nicht
"old love doesn't rust"
Meaning: if your love has withstood the test of time it is unlikely to wither away. From the latin: Vetus amor non sentit rubiginem
Example: Said when seeing an elderly couple or when describing highschool sweet hearts.

>nur von Luft und Liebe leben
"to only live off air and love
Meaning: self explanatory, a love which minds no financal restrictions to th point of starvation
Example: Usually used in the negative, that kids for example can't live off air and love alone and that their parents need to have some financial security

But than again, we have stuff like Schiller:
>Drum prüfe, wer sich ewig bindet,
Ob sich das Herz zum Herzen findet!
Der Wahn ist kurz, die Reu ist lang.
"Therefore examine,
who himself eternally,
whether the hearts finds another!
As a craze is short, remorse long."
I have a whole doorstopper with such quotes from german sources, so it's not that rare tho not often used. Usually only as "Drum prüfe wer sich ewig bindet" (Therefore examine, who bind himself eternally.

[Anonymous No.20626713]

>>20626694
I didn't mean romantic in the "love" sense, but in the literary sense.
Like, instead of "two birds with one stone" which can still be used in an aesthetic was, German has "Zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe" which is just a lot more vulgar and gross. I don't want to think of crushed fly guts, and I don't want to put it into my writing, or speech.

[Anonymous No.20626733]

>>20626713
You might want to check out the wiki as an intro as well as get a copy of "Redewendungen des alten Rom". Most of those have similar representations in german and are quoted under the latin ones. Worth checking out, especially as it's a 19th century reprint, so the vulgar stuff hasn't found its place there.

But than we have
>lieber einen Spatz in der Hand als eine Taube auf dem Dach
It might be that you simply try to find german ones for those you know from english, instead of taking the german ones available, as most arent that bad. Also keep in mind that just like with Schiller,
>zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe
is simply taken from a "das tapfere Schneiderlein" and not just made up to be gross.

[Anonymous No.20626735]

>>20626733
>>20626713
Wiki:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_deutscher_Redewendungen

[Anonymous No.20626737]

>>20626733
>>20626735
ok, I'll check it out, thanks