Clip pouch

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Clasp bag - here with an apron - around 1890

A clip bag is a small sack, usually made of fabric, or a bag for storing clothespins . It is available in various variations z. B. with apron or crocheted "engagement".

Phrase

“It must have been powdered with the clip-on bag!” Meaning: not at consolation, be crazy. Satirists like Kurt Tucholsky liked to use the phrase and made it popular.

Sometimes the explanation is that the bag in the flour bin of a mill is meant, which is shaken by a clamp-like device to separate the bran from the flour. If the flour bin is opened while grinding, the flour will dust the miller. This is quite uncomfortable and increases the risk of a dust explosion . The explanation is not tenable because a) the separating device in the mill was not called "staple bag", but "Bittel", "bag sifter" etc., b) the craziness as a result of dusting seems very far-fetched, c) the phrase only after 1900 came up when the mill being played a much smaller role in everyday life, and d) at the same time the variant "got one with the clip bag" came up, which is clearly related to the beating, not to dusting.

The idiom is better explained with an abundance of slap idioms for stupidity, madness such as "having a slap", "being hammered" etc. It is possible that popular historical dramas and films made use of the natural powdering that was common in the 18th century Hair or wigs was seen regularly for giving rise to the phrase. In this powdering, a bag with fine holes was shaken over the head, whereby powder from it was dusted on the natural or the wig hair. This pouch was similar to the clip-on pouches that are still common today. The shaking movements when powdering could be coarsened into small blows on the head by using a clip bag. As a variant, this resembles traditional proverbial idioms to head blows, with which perceptual disorders , stupidities etc. are mockingly explained.

See also

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Kurt Tucholsky: Collected works in ten volumes. Reinbek bei Hamburg 1975, Vol. 2, pp. 262-263, Volume 4, pp. 252-253, Vol. 5, pp. 224-226
  2. Jump up ↑ Duden, Idioms, 3rd edition, page 419
  3. ^ Http://www.geo.de/GEOlino/mensch/redewendung/deutsch/redewendung-mit-dem-klammerpaket-gepudert-70770.html
  4. ^ Küpper, Illustrated Lexicon of German Slang, Vol. 4, p. 1492
  5. ^ Lutz Röhrich : The lexicon of proverbial sayings. Volume 2: Hanau string . 3rd edition, ISBN 978-3-9811483-8-1 , page 846.
  6. ↑ My dear Scholli ... ( Memento from April 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ http://www.blueprints.de/wortschatz/von-kairos-bis-mulus-mulum/mit-dem-klammerpaket-gepudert.html