For this cool reason

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For this cool reason it is a half-joking phrase that is often used when the speaker is deriving a decision or an assessment of the situation from - in his opinion - unambiguous facts. Usually the conclusion is rather unwelcome for those addressed.

Whoever uses this phrase today rarely knows that it derives its joke from the ambiguity of the German word reason and from a once well-known folk song. Joseph von Eichendorff wrote the poem In a cool valley in Rohrbach in 1807 , there is a mill wheel ...

In Friedrich Glück's setting , these verses were among the most popular in German for about a century.

In the student milieu, the cool forest ground then became the cool reason for a conclusion.

literature

• Dudenredaktion (ed.): Quotes and sayings: origin and current use (= Duden - German language in 12 volumes. Volume 12). 3. Edition. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-411-04123-7 , p. 66 ( limited preview in Google book search).