In bulk
In Bausch und Bogen there is a German idiom that means “completely, all together, regardless of details, exceptions or differences”. Today, the expression is mostly used as a modal adverbial definition of verbs that express a negative judgment or negative reaction: If something is "condemned in full", then it is flatly and unreservedly rejected.
origin
The rhyming twin formula has been used in merchants' language since the beginning of the 18th century and means “as a whole, roughly”, that is, without precise measuring or weighing and without individual calculation. Jacob Grimm explained in the German dictionary the origin from the field survey, where the outward bending border is called "Bausch", the inward bending border is called "Boge"; In the case of sales “in bulk” there is no need to offset the deviations in the border line against each other, and it is assumed that too much and too little balance each other out. Elmar Seebold has recently questioned this derivation due to a lack of early evidence and regards the phrase as "etymologically not clearly clarified". The neo-Latin expression pauschalis was derived from “Bausch”, which means “ pauschal ” in German.
Individual evidence
- ↑ DWDS word profile for "bow" , created by the Digital Dictionary of the German language, accessed on May 19, 2020th
- ↑ Art. Bausch . In Lutz Röhrich: Lexicon of the proverbial sayings. Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 1994, Volume 1, p. 163
- ↑ Art. BAUSCH . In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm : German Dictionary . Hirzel, Leipzig 1854–1961 ( woerterbuchnetz.de , University of Trier). (Volume 1, Column 1198)
- ↑ Art. Bausch . In: Elmar Seebold (editor): Kluge Etymological Dictionary of the German Language. 23rd edition, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999, p. 87
