“To make a slender foot,” cut a graceful figure & do something just for show, use an easy solution for a complex problem, praise when you should criticize.
(Zick eye nen shlonk en fooss mack en.)
“To make a slender foot,” cut a graceful figure & do something just for show, use an easy solution for a complex problem, praise when you should criticize.
(Zick eye nen shlonk en fooss mack en.)
“Cure shadow.” A close friend you make during your stay at the health resort. May lead to marriage.
(Koor SHOT ten.)
1) a cure, 2) a political election or 3) a stay at a health resort lasting from one to several weeks.
(Koor.)
“Hunger hatchet.” A woman who has starved herself too much. Often looks like her bony shoulders are a hanger and her body is the clothes.
(HOONG er HOCK ah.)
The most successful German weight loss program, the “EH,” “Eat Half,” diet.
(EFF DAY HAH.)
Iron discipline.
(EYE zer nah DEESS zee pleen.)
Damage caused by celebrations and festivities.
(FREUD enn SHOD den.)
“Making blue,” i.e. drinking. Also playing hooky. In the Middle Ages, making blue dye required lots of urine, hence the term.
(Bl OW! mack en.)
If you yell this during today’s carnaval parade in Cologne, costumed people will throw gifts at you that include chocolates, long-stemmed roses, shrink-wrapped blood sausage, and soap samples.
(Kamella!)
Drinking like bulls.
(ZOW fen vee dee SHTEER ah.)
Drinking like a hole in the ground.
(ZOW fen vee eye n LOCK.)
The Thursday before Ash Wed. when women cut off men’s ties at work and on the street. People start drinking at noon. Normal life will resume in Lent.
(OLT vibe er FOST nockt.)
To pull with a smile. “She smiled herself up a husband.”
(ON loch en.)
Turning yourself into a dwarf.
(ZELBS t fair tsfair g oong.)
“Children and drunk people speak the truth.”
(Kinder oont bahZOFF en ah zog en dee VAR height.)
“Ripe for storming.” To bombard a target until it is so “softened up” that you can attack with ground troops. 30 years ago, Bashar al-Assad’s father shot the Sunni town of Hama sturmreif, then marched in. 20,000 to 30,000 people were killed.
(SHTOORM rife.)
To make a cat’s arched back; to kowtow, to fawn. “First Lady of Syria Asma al-Assad’s personality appears to have changed after her marriage, perhaps due to all the Katzbuckeln around her.”
(COTS book eln.)
Sheepish. “Sitting sheepishly like Tom Brady after the Superbowl.”
(beh DRÖ pelt.)
“When life gets too good for the donkey, he goes dancing on the ice.”
(Venn ess dame AY zel tsoo vole veered, gate er owfs ICE tant sen.)
“The cow is still on the ice,” i.e., a cow accidentally wandered onto thin ice and is in danger of drowning.
(Dee COO isst nock owf dame ICE.)
So cold, things jingle, clatter, clank. Onomatopoetically cold. Also a cocktail at Bolschoi, a bar in Marburg, Germany.
(CLEAR end ah KALE tah.)
An older man, usually over 50, who is unmarried out of conviction.
(HOGGA shtolts.)
“Fried potatoes relationship”; two people living in sin more for the cookery than for the sex.
(BROT car toffle fur hailed niss.)
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