Ass card

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A handball referee stows the red card in his back pocket after disqualifying a player.

The term butt card is used in the sloppy idioms "take the butt card", "show the ass card" or "have the ass card" in the sense of - unlike in football also random - "have bad luck ", "experience a mishap" (similar to the older phrase "the buck pull"). This expresses that a situation is particularly unfavorable for a person or has unpleasant consequences. The Phraseologismus (phrase) is the 1990s in use since the middle.

There are only guesses as to the origin of the phrase; by far the most popular is, they could be introduced by the 1970 red card in soccer derived. In order to avoid confusion, football referees often keep the yellow card in their breast pocket, while the red card is in their back pocket. The player to whom the referee shows the red card would then have “got the card in the ass”.

In connection with this, there is sometimes the claim that the cards were put in different pockets because the television viewer could not see the color differences at the time of black and white television . The fact that color television was introduced in Germany in 1967, i.e. three years before the first guaranteed use of a red card, speaks against the assumption of such connections with football or television , although it took a few years for the then still very expensive ones TV sets found their way into the majority of households across the board. In general, however, the yellow cards are shown in black and white in a very light gray, the red in dark gray - and there is no guideline as to where and how the referees have to keep the red card.

See also

Sagittarius ass in the last link

literature

  • Ass card: have drawn the ass card, have the ass card. In: Dieter Herberg, Michael Kinne, Doris Steffens: New vocabulary: Neologisms of the 90s in German (= writings of the Institute for German Language. Vol. 11). De Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-11-017750-1 , p. 16 ( online, limited reading sample ).

Web links

Wiktionary: Arschkarte  - explanations of meanings, word origins , synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. Spiegel Online : The Invention of the Ass Card , one day , March 26, 2010; accessed February 7, 2019.
  2. Compare statements by the literary scholar Rolf-Bernhard Essig in the Essigs Essenzen broadcast on Deutschlandradio , May 16, 2008; accessed February 7, 2019.
  3. For example in an earlier encyclopedia entry ( memento from February 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on the TV station ProSieben ; accessed February 7, 2019.
  4. Robert Sedlaczek : The short straw gives us a mystery , Wiener Zeitung , January 15, 2008; accessed February 7, 2019.