• trollercoaster@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    Welcome to the world of German idioms.

    Today’s lesson: If you want to point out that a place is particularly messy, you say:

    Das sieht aus, als ob da eine Bombe eingeschlagen hätte.

    meaning:

    This looks as if it has been hit by a bomb.

    This is quite adequate to describe even the messiest of places.

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        11 months ago

        Alternatively:

        • “Hier sieht’s aus wie bei Hempels unter Sofa.” (It looks like under the Hempel family’s couch.)
        • “Hier sieht’s aus wie bei den Hottentotten.” (It looks like … uh … the land of a people genocided by colonial Germany. Slightly problematic, that one.)