GER 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Bren Light Machine Gun
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To (cid:1684)shove something onto the long bench(cid:1685) is to put something off or procrastinate over something: was man sich eingebrockt hat, muss man auch ausl ffeln. This expression is the equivalent of the english (cid:1684)you(cid:1685)ve made your bed and now you must lie in it(cid:1685). The german version tells people that you have to dish out what you(cid:1685)ve cooked up: den bock zum g rtner machen. If you(cid:1685)re asking for trouble, a german person will say that you are turning the goat into the gardener. In other words, you(cid:1685)re setting yourself up for a fall, by choosing a completely inappropriate animal to neatly prune your bushes: das sind mir b mische/spanische d rfer. Whereas in english you might say (cid:1688)it(cid:1685)s all greek to me(cid:1689) if you don(cid:1685)t understand something, in. German you say that it(cid:1685)s a bohemian or spanish village to you something completely foreign that(cid:1685)s outside of your frame of reference: man kann nicht auf zwei hochzeiten tanzen.
