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Hasenpanier (literally: the banner , the flag of the hare ) is a symbolic expression. The outdated proverbial phrase to show the rabbit banner (or to grab the rabbit banner ) means something like "to flee".
Word origin
The origin of the word, which has been documented since the 15th century, is not entirely clear. May have been in the hunter language of the tail of the hare called its banner. It is based on in any case, the idea that because of his anxiety proverbial hare (cf.. Coward , rabbit heart) have spread out to escape his tail in the air: The hate is a forchtsam thier / Gar soon wirfft he arose be panier .
Phrase
The proverbial phrase that the rabbit banner attach, show, grasp in the sense of “to flee”, “to get away” jokingly reverses the traditional military function of a flag : it does not blow at the head of a column marching forward, but is, so to speak, when fleeing hoisted from behind. As elsewhere, the hare becomes a symbol of an upside-down world.
Taking the rabbit course or the rabbit pad kesen (Lower Saxony) as an expression for "flee" is also used to have a similar meaning .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Brothers Grimm, German Dictionary , Vol. 10, Sp. 539 f.
- ↑ Friedrich Kluge, Etymological Dictionary of the German Language , 22nd edition, Berlin 1989, p. 295.
- ^ Paul Fürst, Speculum bestialitatis , around 1650/60, cited above. according to Lutz Röhrich, Lexicon of proverbial speeches , Freiburg, 6th edition 1994, vol. 2, p. 669.
- ↑ Rudolf Schenda, Das ABC der Tiere , Munich 1995, pp. 140 f.
- ↑ Lutz Röhrich, Lexikon der proichwörtlichen Redensarten , Freiburg, 6th edition 1994, vol. 2, p. 669.
- ↑ Krünitz 1858 in Hasen-Panier