Dutch sayings that I really find very strange
Language is strange. Sentences are crazy and words are weird. After a whole list of words that I just don't understand it's time for proverbs and sayings. (sorry, my name is Corrie). How CRAPPY is it to be named Corrie and apparently have to apologize for your name? Behold: the proverbs that I don't understand.
He who burns his butt must sit on the blisters
You can also just stand still or buy blister plasters or lie on your stomach, bye.
That makes as much sense as a tongs on a pig
WHY? Poor little pig.
To hang on someone's lips
Am I the only one who now sees a miniature doll in front of me hanging on your lower lip with all its might (maybe even with a chisel)?
As the clock ticks at home, it ticks nowhere
If it were: as your bed lies at home, it lies nowhere: okay. But a clock? Spontaneously able to take it on vacation to see if it ticks differently.
One should not look a gift horse in the mouth
THERE'S A HORSE IN THE HALL! RUN! Oh no, first let's see what's in its mouth. And who gives a horse nowadays? So Pippi Longstocking.
Honesty lasts the longest
It lasts the shortest, that's what they actually mean, right? It seems to me that lying ultimately takes longer, because you twist yourself in all sorts of ways, but okay.
He who laughs last, laughs best
Or is slow to understand and gets the joke too late. Loser.
A man a man, a word a word
A completely random list of words that mean nothing, you might as well say. An iPhone an iPhone, a seahorse a seahorse. Or: a bitterball a bitterball, a pineapple a pineapple.
When the calf has drowned, one fills the well
Coming soon to the cinema: The Ring III. Girl climbs out of well with calf skeleton on her back. STOP IT.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree
Who decides that? I would really like to be that rebellious apple with a shooting function that suddenly ends up five kilometers away in a parking lot. Bitches.
What the farmer doesn't know, he won't eat
I can tell you that I have a ‘little farmer’ at home who used to eat nothing but AVG's in the evening and now is happily sitting at the cheese fondue, oysters, and olives. Now it's your turn. Bye.
