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Cadaver obedience

This expression, which became common in the 19th century, is derived from a regulation from the rules of the order of Ignatius of Loyola . In his Constitutiones it says that the members of the order should be guided by God and their superiors:

“Perinde ac si cadaver essent”

"As if they were a corpse"

This is what it says about this contemptible power word, which is often used against military subordination , in Otto Ladendorf's historical subject book :

"Without a good dose of cadaver obedience and the best-intentioned Jesuitism, it is still the norm today, in modern political parties, not to go off."

In roughly this sense, the talk of "blind obedience" can be found among others in Friedrich Schiller , who writes in his drama Wallenstein's camp :

"The word is free, the deed is mute, obedience is blind."

Today the word cadaver obedience is used in the sense of "blind obedience" which does not exclude one's own death:

  • "Cadaver obedience and body cult" (via Nazi elite schools)
  • "Foreign policy cadaver obedience"
  • "Freedom of conscience instead of cadaver obedience"

Kai out of the box

The description "... like Kai out of the box ", which is often used as a comment on a surprising suggestion, comes from a children's novel by Wolf Durian , which was published in 1924/25 as a sequel in the children's newspaper Der hehre Fridolin , then in 1926 because of its great success was published as a book. It tells of the title hero Kai, a Berlin street boy who, with the help of his friends, wins the competition for the title and post of advertising king, which is awarded by an American chocolate manufacturer. In order to be noticed as a participant in the first place, Kai hides in a box that is delivered to the manufacturer's hotel room.

Cold War

Cold War was the catchphrase for the frosty relationship between the two power blocs and was seen as the name for the conflict between states below the threshold of open war. It can be found in American journalism since 1947, for example with Walter Lippmann ("The Cold War. A Study in US Foreign Policy").

The superpowers avoided the “hot” war with one another by using weapons, but they pushed ahead with the arms race , especially in the field of nuclear weapons. For the first time in human history, the threat of nuclear war , which both sides took into account, raised the danger of self-extinction.

The conflict of interest threatened to escalate militarily several times: in the Berlin blockade in 1948, during the Korean War in 1950 and especially in the Cuba crisis in 1962. A particularly conspicuous product of the Cold War was the division of Germany and Europe along the " Iron Curtain " Border systems with barbed wire fences, watchtowers and self- firing systems . The Berlin Wall , built in 1961, became the most important symbol and memorial of the East-West conflict . A similar situation arose with the division of Korea along the 38th parallel that still exists today .

Clash of civilizations

Huntington's division of the world into cultures

The term clash of civilizations goes back to the book Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by the American political scientist Samuel P. Huntington , whereby “clash of cultures” would be the more precise translation.

In 1993 Huntington put forward the thesis that world politics in the 21st century will not be determined by conflicts of a political, ideological or economic nature, but by conflicts between people from different cultures, especially between the Western and the Islamic.

Huntington divides the world into the following cultures . Each cultural area has a core state, which is the center of power.

Struggle for existence

"Struggle for existence" ( English Struggle for Life ) is a central concept of Charles Darwin 's foundational work On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life (German: "On the Origin of Species through natural selection or the preservation of the favored races in the struggle for existence ”), which was published in 1859 and is considered to be fundamental work in the field of evolutionary theories .

The term “struggle for existence” is seen as the central concept of so-called Darwinism . Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin resorted to the demographic theory of Thomas Robert Malthus , according to which a potentially exponential growth of (human) populations together with the limited resources make a "struggle for existence" necessary;

The philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote about this term:

"What people call the struggle for existence is nothing else than the struggle for advancement."

Can love be a sin?

The rhetorical question “Can love be a sin?” Comes from the 1938 film The Blue Fox , in which Zarah Leander sings the famous song that begins with the following words:

Every little philistine makes
life a torture
for me, because he always talks about morality.

A few verses below it then says:

Can love be a sin?
Shouldn't anyone know
if you kiss,
if you forget everything for once, because
of happiness?

The text was by Bruno Balz and the music by Lothar Brühne . Composed by the homosexual courtship and sung by his girlfriend and homosexual icon Leander in her deep voice, the song was very popular among homosexuals and homophiles especially until the beginning of the 1970s, especially because of the topic, and was also afterwards by many imitators and travesty artists interpreted.

A similar thought can already be found in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's tragedy Miss Sara Sampson , written in 1755 , in which Lady Marwood says:

“It is not a crime to have loved; even less is it to have been loved. "

In 1988, Ulrike Sanders gave her Zarah Leander biography the meaningful title Can Schlager be a sin?

Canonical age

Canonical age originally denotes any determination of a number of years of life in order to obtain certain rights and obligations according to canon law , i.e. canon law (CIC).

In particular, however, one understands under canonical age the rule that a candidate must have reached the age of 25 to receive the priestly sacrament of ordination (c. 1031 CIC ).

Further minimum age requirements:

In popular parlance, the age requirement for unrelated rectory housekeepers (40–45 years) was also called canonical age.

Under canon is today understood clergy of all levels consecration, members of a chapter of a cathedral, basilica or religious church and the common liturgy as chapter members participate.

Rabbit has started.

Rabbits

This Berlin saying comes from the 19th century. The " rabbit " stands for the one who is not only the loser in a dispute, but is also blamed for the dispute.

The saying goes back to the last line of a poem by Friedrich Christoph Förster , which he published in 1827 under the title "Karnikkeltod".

The poem describes that a young painter is walking through the market with his dog, a greyhound named Presto. At a gardener's stand, a rabbit is sitting under the kale and the dog begins to “feel his fur”. "Karnikkel thinks: he wants to play 'bake cakes'", so it says in the poem. The dog bites him dead and the gardener calls the police over. Numerous people in the market are interfering in the matter. Finally, a shoemaker's boy approaches and speaks to the painter:

"... no worries here.
Dear Sir, you can laugh boldly,
Just always went to the police,
I saw it: Rabbit has started. "

The quote collector Georg Büchmann writes in his Winged Words :

“A shoemaker boy who has listened to the argument takes sides with the gentleman and promises to testify in return for a tip that the rabbit has started (that the rabbit has started). The expression has now also passed into French. At the end of an article "Aménités" in the Paris newspaper "Le Bien public", no. 66, March 7, 1877, it says: "Encore une fois, c'est le lapin qui a commencé!"

The phrase jokingly declares an apparently innocent scapegoat for disagreements.

Get chestnuts out of the fire

"Get chestnuts out of the fire"

The phrase "bring chestnuts out of the fire" ( French Tirer les marrons du feu ) comes from the fable Jean de la Fontaines Le singe et le chat ( The monkey and the cat ), in which the monkey Bertrand persuades the cat Raton for him to get roasted chestnuts out of the fire:

“Bertrand immediately said to Raton:
“ Here, little brothers, do your master
stroke and get them for us. Oh, if God had created me monkeys
to pick chestnuts out of the embers
, we'd have our joy in it! "
Raton was proud. He nodded and began to
gently remove the ashes with his paw.
He withdrew the claws quickly.
Oh, such work was a hot piece!
Meanwhile, he strove to learn the new art,
and gradually exposed chestnuts.
The first flew out, followed by two and three,
and Bertrand behind him grabbed and cracked it. "

While Bertrand eats the chestnuts alone without giving Raton even one of them, the cat rubs his burned paws.

If someone takes the chestnuts out of the fire, it means that he is putting himself in danger for another and possibly not reaping thanks for it. This phrase is also used in political reporting. So it is said about the relationship of the Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin to the Belarusian President Aljaksandr Lukashenka :

“The presidents of both countries know what they have in each other: While Lukashenko tries to capitalize on Putin's urge to integrate for a second career as a CIS politician, Putin lets the politically incorrect Lukashenko pull those chestnuts out of the fire that are politically correct correct Moscow does not want to burn its fingers "

Categorical imperative

The categorical imperative is the basic ethical norm in Immanuel Kant's philosophy . It applies to all rational beings and reads as follows:

"Act only according to the maxim by which you can also want it to become a general law."

Depending on whether one regards the so-called universalization formula as identical with the general formula or with the autonomy formula, the categorical imperative appears in Kant in five or six (equivalent for Kant) formulas.

Catilinarian existence

Cicero condemns Catiline in the Roman Senate.

In reference to the conspiracy of the Roman praetor Lucius Sergius Catilina, Otto von Bismarck used this expression in the meeting of the budget commission of the Prussian House of Representatives in 1862:

"There are a lot of Katilinarian existences in the country who have a great interest in upheavals."

The Roman politician Catiline became known through the Catilinarian Conspiracy he carried out , a failed attempt at overthrow in 63 BC. BC, with which he wanted to seize power in the Roman Republic.

A Katilinarian existence is a shabby , desperate person who has nothing to lose, as was the case with Catiline herself (in the Gallettiana, succinctly with the saying "The Katilina's revolution consisted in his being in debt") . The expression is also used in the title of Hubert Lengauer's essay on the Austrian writer Ferdinand Kürnberger in Vormärz :

“Catilinarian existence. Troubles and mutations of an old forty-eight in post-March. "

The Bavarian writer Ludwig Thoma quotes this expression in his rascal stories in connection with a lecture :

“But then he drove at me and yelled so loud that the pedell outside heard it and told everyone about it. He said that I have a criminal nature and a Katilinarian existence and that at most I will become a common craftsman and that in ancient times all rejected people began like me. "

Caudin yoke

This educational expression for a shameful humiliation goes back to Roman history. The historian Livy reports that the Roman army in 321 BC. After his defeat in the battle of the Kaudin passes near the central Italian town of Caudium , he had to pass through a trellis formed from the spears of the victorious Samnites . Since the Romans were near starvation, they consented and were "subjugated".

With reference to this, the phrase Caudinian yoke denotes a shameful humiliation. The Romans do not forgive the Samnites for this humiliation, and as soon as they recovered, they resumed the fighting with all the more determination.

The Social Democratic presidential candidate Carlo Schmid said in 1959 in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bonn Bundestag after his return from Moscow, with reference to the acceptance of conditions of the winner, on the subject of German reunification:

"The Caudin yoke can also liberate."

Hardly greeted - avoided.

This quote comes from Nikolaus Lenau's poem Der Postillon, where the 7th stanza says, given the speedy journey with the stagecoach :

Forest and meadows on a fast train
Hardly greeted - avoided;
And past, like a dream flight,
the peace of the villages disappeared .

Caviar for the people

caviar

In William Shakespeare's drama Hamlet , the eponymous hero asks one of the actors to deliver a speech from a play that was not well received by the general public:

"Caviare to the general."

The quote is used to describe something that the general public does not recognize in terms of quality. Caviar is salted roe (eggs) from various types of sturgeon and can cost up to 7,000 euros per kilogram, depending on the quality.

Under the heading Caviar for the people , the weekly newspaper Die Zeit 1969 says about the first artificial caviar based on casein :

"So that the caviar gets to the people, they want to set up a network of shops selling 'synthetic foods'."

No fire, no coal can burn so hot.

The Gazebo , 1873, Sunday Discovery - Is that a bookmark too ? , after the oil painting by R. Hornemann , Düsseldorf

This is how a folk song from the 18th century begins. The first stanza reads in full:

"No fire, no coal
can burn as hot
as secret love that nobody knows anything about."

The quote is usually used jokingly to allude to a hidden love affair.

No sound of the agitated time penetrated this loneliness.

With these verses ends the poem Abseits von Theodor Storm . The poem describes a quiet summer afternoon in a secluded heath village. It says in the last stanza:

“Hardly trembles through the midday rest
A beat of the village clock, the distant one;
The old man's eyelash falls,
he dreams of his honey harvests.
- No sound of the agitated time
urged you into this loneliness. "

In the review of a multi-media show about Theodor Storm it says:

“'No sound of the excited time ...
Drang still into this loneliness' wrote Theodor Storm in 1848 in the heath. And 'No sound of the excited time', it seemed, could reach the 30 visitors on the evening of March 2nd in the switch house. "

Nobody has to.

This expression probably comes from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's drama Nathan the Wise , which premiered in 1779 , where Nathan says in the 3rd appearance of Act 1 to the dervish:

Nobody has to have to, and a dervish should?
What does he have to do?

The answer is:

Why one asks him rightly,
And he knows that he is good, that must be a dervish.

No place for wild animals

No place for wild animals is a book by the zoologist Bernhard Grzimek , published in 1954, which deals with the threatened fauna of Africa. The book describes the impressions of a Congo expedition in 1954. After the book's success, Michael Grzimek persuaded his father to make a film. The film was shown in sixty-three countries and grossed a lot.

The book title is now often modified to form slogans such as:

  • "No place for racism!"
  • "No place for feelings"
  • "No place for nuclear waste"

No pig calls me.

These melancholy words are the title of a hit that made baritone Max Raabe known to a wide audience in 1992. The song begins with the following verse:

No pig calls me.
No one cares about me.
As long as I live here,
it's almost like mockery,
the phone is silent.

The song title is often quoted, such as in a cell phone review or an article titled Why We Need Good Friends . It's also a popular ringtone.

No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger.

Cassius Clay

The US boxer Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) is said to have justified his refusal to join the Vietnam War as a soldier with these words :

"No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger."

However, there is no evidence of this. Clay's biographer Thomas Hauser tried to substantiate this quote, but could not provide any evidence that this statement was actually made in this or a similar form.

In 1964 Clay was classified by the US Army as unfit for military service. However, this rating was later revised and Ali should have entered the military service that would likely have led him into the Vietnam War. But Ali refused what was considered a criminal offense in the US because the right to conscientious objection did not exist in the US. He was then banned from boxing matches in the United States, and his passport was revoked.

Randall Kennedy , a professor at the prestigious Harvard Law School , writes in his book called Nigger - The Strange Career of a Difficult Word on the N Word, one of the worst US swear words:

“It was only after the success of the civil rights movement that blacks started dealing with the N word. “No Vietnamese has ever called me a nigger” - with this legendary justification, Muhammad Ali refused to go to the Vietnam War. A good 30 years later, politicians can no longer afford to pronounce the N word. "

Not being able to cloud any water

This expression with the meaning “to be completely harmless” has its origin in a fable of the Roman fable poet Phaedrus . In it, a wolf drinking by a brook accuses a lamb drinking from the same brook further below of having made its water cloudy. The lamb defends himself by pointing out that the stream is not flowing uphill after all. But the wolf ate the lamb after further senseless accusations "as a punishment".

The writer Rudolf Hagelstange tells this fable like this:

A wolf, who was drinking from a brook, noticed a lamb a little further down, licking a little water. “Oh!” He thought, “this is a good evening meal. I'm just missing a good argument to get them to me. Then I have food and drink together. "
"Hey you down there!" He shouted angrily. "Do you think you can cloud my water with impunity ?!"
“Unfortunately it is not possible at all,” replied the lamb, “for me to cloud the water for you. Quite apart from the fact that I only sip with my tongue - I drink from you downstream! "

No experiments!

No experiments was the slogan of the CDU in the federal election campaign 1957 . With this slogan, the CDU wanted to call on the electorate to vote for the preservation of what the Union had achieved so far in the post-war period instead of voting for the SPD , as a possible victory in times of the Cold War would be associated with a high level of uncertainty. To this day, the slogan is associated with the greatest triumph in a federal election in the history of the Christian Democrats and is considered the best-known German election campaign slogan.

In the 1957 election campaign, the SPD pleaded for Germany to leave NATO and the GDR to leave the Warsaw Pact , which should enable the divided country to be reunified as quickly as possible .

The slogan was invented by an advertising agency and Konrad Adenauer is quoted as follows:

"If the advertisers mean dat, then do it like that!"

No celebration without Meyer

This slogan was used to advertise the Meyer Sektkellerei in the 1930s. The sparkling wine producer Gratien & Meyer is one of the oldest sparkling wine producers in France.

The Berlin food and wine store Meyer, which was founded before 1900 and at times operated more than 600 branches and existed until the 1980s, also used this slogan to advertise.

After Hermann Göring said that his name would be Meier if a single enemy plane came to Berlin, the saying was coined on him because he attended many celebrations.

In Disney's German synchronization of the jungle book , the variation "No celebration without a vulture " occurs.

Today the slogan is used by a company that specializes in party design.

No power for nobody

Album cover

No Power for Nobody is the name of the most famous song by the band Ton Steine ​​Scherben :

In the south, in the east, in the west, in the north,
it is the same everywhere who murder us.
In every city and in every country,
write the slogan on every wall.
Write the password on every wall.
No power for nobody!
No power for nobody!

The double LP from 1972 as well as the song No Power for Nobody denounced social and political grievances. The texts call for resistance to the existing system.

No wall is so high that a donkey laden with gold cannot climb over it

No wall is so high that a donkey laden with gold cannot climb it is attributed to Philip II of Macedonia . The saying vividly expresses that almost any protection or resistance can be overcome by paying enough money. Modified, the saying goes: The gates of every city open for a donkey laden with gold.

Not a quiet minute

Not a quiet minute is a strongly autobiographical song by Reinhard Mey , in which he celebrates the birth of his first child in 1979. The song has the following catchy chorus:

Since then I haven't had a quiet minute.
And that goes as I suspect until I'm a hundred years old.

These words are usually used to comment on the birth of the first baby in a family. The quote is also used in other contexts. The Focus headlines an article about the hyperactivity disorder ADHD with the words "No quiet minute."

Don't lure a dog (anymore) from behind the stove

With this idiom it is expressed that one can (no longer) arouse interest with something. The ballad Der Kaiser und der Abt by Gottfried August Bürger , in which the shrewd shepherd Hans Bendix describes himself with the following words , probably contributed to its distribution :

“I don't understand anything about Latin chunks right
away , so I know how to lure the dog from the stove.
What you, scholars, do not earn for money,
I inherited from my wife mother. "

With his mother joke he wants to help the abbot of St. Gallen to solve three difficult riddles that the emperor posed to him.

Today this phrase is often used like this:

"What used to be exciting now no longer brings a tired dog out from behind the stove."

Nobody is so crazy that they couldn't find someone even crazier who understands them.

The poet Heinrich Heine wrote on his trip to the Harz Mountains when he heard a tailor's journeyman playing the folk song A Beetle on the fence; hum, hum! sang:

“That's nice about Germans: Nobody is so crazy that they can't find someone even crazier who understands them. Only a German can empathize with that song and laugh and cry to death. "

An eternal theme of Heine was his being German . Too often it was made clear to him that he was not one of them.

Do you know the land where the lemons bloom?

Lemon blossom

With this verse the famous song of the Mignon begins in Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Years . Mignon is expressing her desire for her homeland, Italy. The first stanza reads:

Do you know the land where the lemons bloom,
The golden oranges glow in the dark foliage,
A gentle wind blows from the blue sky,
The myrtle stands still and high the laurel?
Do you know it? There!
I would like to go there with you,
O my beloved.

The song was best known for its various settings and "the land where the lemons bloom" became a synonym for Italy for educational travelers.

In 1928 Erich Kästner drew a prophetic picture of World War II by writing a poem with the title Do you know the land where the cannons bloom? wrote. The last stanza reads:

Freedom does not mature there. There it stays green.
Whatever you build - there will always be barracks.
Do you know the land where the cannons bloom?
You don't know You will get to know it!

Kevin is not a name but a diagnosis

The winged word of an unknown author emerged in the 2000s in a wave of jokes and ridicule about the first name Kevin in German-speaking countries. Since around this time, the first name has been considered typical of the lower classes together with other English, French and exotic first names (e.g. Chantal, Mandy). Name-bearers are said to be above all uneducated, poor upbringing and behavioral problems.

Kilroy was here.

Kilroy without lettering

The character Kilroy became world famous with the sentence " Kilroy was here", which was written in the most impossible places by US soldiers during World War II . The phrase was often accompanied by a picture showing a face with an elongated nose and two round eyes. This face looked over a wall and was usually the only one that made up the picture. Sometimes three fingers were also painted to hold on to the wall.

The most likely explanation to date is that the phrase "Kilroy was here" was written by ship inspector James J. Kilroy. Kilroy's job was to check the workers with the riveting machines and see how many holes they had filled. So that he didn't count anything twice and to show his superiors that he was doing his job, he began to mark the hulls of the ships that he had already checked with "Kilroy was here". When a ship was then used for a military operation and was supposed to transport troops, this sentence was a great mystery for the soldiers.

As a gag, the soldiers then wrote the sentence everywhere they went, claiming that it was already there when they arrived. The game turned into a competition: you had to be the first to paint the picture and slogan in the most impossible places you could imagine.

Children of Olympus

Children of Olympus is a French film set in an actor environment (original title: Les Enfants du Paradis ). The German title is the literal translation of the French, since the highest rank in the theater is French paradis , German Olympus .

The film tells the relationship between a woman and four men in the Parisian theater environment around 1835. The four male characters, three of whom actually lived, are grouped around Garance, whose beauty and attraction no one can escape.

One speaks of the children of Olympus to characterize people who live outside the bourgeois milieu:

  • "Children of Olympus gay and lesbian sports group Mainz"

Children instead of Indians.

Jürgen Rüttgers , 2006

This slogan is attributed to the North Rhine-Westphalian CDU top candidate Jürgen Rüttgers in the state election campaign in 2000 . The subject of the slogan was the discussion about immigration of foreign IT experts and should mean “more training instead of more immigration”.

The background was an interview (by the AP news agency , published in the WAZ on March 8, 2000) in which Rüttgers said:

"Instead of Indians at the computer, our children have to use the computer."

This then became the catchy headline: "CDU politicians: children instead of Indians to the computer ", which was reduced to the slogan "Children instead of Indians" and then adopted by the Republicans in the 2000 state election campaign.

On the other hand, there was also an online campaign against this slogan at the address www.kinder-statt-inder.de. This website says on the subject of the deployment of German skilled workers:

“It shows a remarkable audacity when the ex-future minister Rüttgers frankly admits in the program 'Berlin Mitte' that the shortage of skilled workers was already foreseeable in the years when his party was still responsible for government. Yes, where did he get them, the new software specialists, the TCP / IP network specialists, the security experts, the JAVA, CORBA and DCOM and software architecture gurus who, due to his activities back then, are practically everywhere with him for good money Hand kiss could find work? "

The SPD politician Rüdiger Löster writes about this slogan:

“Rüttger's slogan 'Children instead of Indians' does not differ from the NPD slogan 'Work for Germans first'. On the contrary: it looks even worse because the word 'children' has a much more emotional and positive connotation. "

Secret joy

Memorial stone for Siegfried Buback in Karlsruhe

The word "klammheimliche" is actually a pleonasm , since the Latin word clam also means "secretly".

The phrase “secret joy” became known through the notorious spontaneous text “Buback - An Obituary”, signed with the pseudonym Göttinger Mescalero , which commented on the 1977 assassination of the Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback by the Red Army faction . The scribe called himself "City Indians" and signed the pamphlet with Mescalero , the name of an Apache tribe.

He didn't want to hide his “secret joy after Buback was shot down”.

The sentence most heavily criticized was:

"My immediate reaction, my 'dismay' after Buback was shot down, is quickly described: I couldn't and didn't want (and don't want to) hide my secret joy."

And further it says:

“I've heard the guy rushing a lot. I know what a prominent role he played in the persecution, criminalization and torture of the left. "

The second part of the text, which partly contained a renunciation of violence, was mostly not published by the media at the time. So the author turned against violence "regardless of the current political situation", ie without taking public opinion into account. So he demanded that the terrorists should stand out positively through the system they are fighting not only in the goal, but also in the means ( our way to socialism (because of me anarchy) cannot be paved with corpses. ). In Augsburg, however, a 29-year-old was sentenced to six months in prison without parole for distributing the "obituary".

Shut up, monkey dead!

This phrase supposedly goes back to little monkeys that were used to tear cards to amuse the audience. If the circus monkey was dead, then the flap of the ticket booth stayed closed.

In the novel We ride quietly, we ride silently from 1933, probably written by the German explorer and writer Julius Steinhardt (1880–1955), on p. 152 it is probably not written seriously:

“'Shut up, dead monkey' is the refrain of the song written ad hoc by Waldröschen and set to music by Gustaf Nagel .”

The expression was made popular in 1961 by the GDR hit in the summer of sixty-one , which was sung by a men's choir after the wall was built. The text comes from the poet Heinz Kahlau and ends with the following triumphant stanza:

“In the summer of sixty-one,
on August 13th
, we closed the borders
and nobody knew.
Shut up, monkey dead,
finally the dawn is laughing. "

Classic floor

The name for the landscape of Greco-Roman antiquity is a translation of the English classic ground , which was coined in 1701 by the British writer Joseph Addison . It comes from his letter from Italy to Lord Halifax, which reads:

"Poetic fields encompass me around,
And still I seem lo tread an classic ground."

"Poetic realms surround me, and I still seem to be stepping on classical ground."

Clothes make the man.

Clothes make the man is a novella by Gottfried Keller , which is about a poor tailor who is mistaken for a count because of his clothes and is courted accordingly. “Clothes make the man” is an established phrase.

The realization that well-cared for clothing leads to preferential treatment goes back to the Roman rhetoric teacher Quintilian , who recommended to his students: vestis virum reddit , literally: "The clothes make the man."

This saying has the meaning of "well-groomed, good clothing promotes reputation".

Until well into the 19th century, clothing was also an expression of the social and political status of the wearer.

Today this idiom is often varied for other contexts, as the language critic Wolf Schneider called his book on the language words make people .

Little man - really big.

Little man - the title of a play by Edgar Kahn and Ludwig Bender is really big . In 1956 a film was made under the same title.

The film is about a little boy who, when his horse is about to be sold, secretly leaves home with it and takes care of the horse. In the end, the horse even wins an important race.

Little man - now what?

Little man - now what? is the title of a 1932 novel by Hans Fallada .

In July 1930 the accountant Johannes Pinneberg and his girlfriend, the saleswoman Emma “Lämmchen” Mörschel, went to a gynecologist in West Pomerania to find out about contraceptive methods. They learn that Lammchen is two months pregnant. Since Pinneberg earns little as an accountant in an agricultural goods store and the two have no official relationship, he reacts horrified. With the expectant mother, however, surprise turns into joy early on.

Small cattle also make crap

The expression “small cattle also make crap” expresses that even smaller, seemingly insignificant things can achieve a certain (larger) yield.

Stick out of the bag!

The expression stick out of the sack goes back to the fairy tale table deck you, donkey and stick out of the sack . The youngest son of a tailor received a sack with a stick from a wood turner at the end of his apprenticeship. The turner describes the special features of the gift in the following words:

“... if someone has done you something wrong, just say 'stick out of the bag', the stick will jump out among the people and dance around on their backs so merrily that they cannot move or move for eight days. "

The term is used today to describe reckless punishment.

Colossus on feet of clay

This expression comes from the biblical book of Daniel , in which a dream of the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar is depicted of a four-part statue made of gold, silver, ore and iron. But the feet are partly made of clay.

“ 31 You, King, saw, and, behold, a large and tall and very shining image stood before you, it was terrible to look at. 32 The head of the picture was of fine gold, its breast and arms were of silver, its belly and loins were of brass, 33 its thighs were iron, and its feet were part iron and part clay. 34 You saw this until a stone was torn down without hands; he struck the image on his feet, which were iron and clay, and crushed them. 35 Then the iron, clay, brass, silver and gold were crushed together, and became like chaff on the summer threshing floor, and the wind blew them away, so that they could no longer be found. But the stone that smashed the image became a great mountain that it filled the whole world. "

The prophet Daniel interprets this colossus as a symbol for the four great world empires under which the people of Israel had to suffer. Daniel expresses his hope that the hoped-for kingdom of God will overcome all worldly kingdoms. In the dream a stone falls on the feet of clay and the whole colossus falls over. The king then recognizes YHWH as the creator of the world and exalts Daniel to be the chief of all sages in the land.

Today, some authoritarian state power is often referred to as a colossus on feet of clay, which is intended to indicate that its power has no solid foundation.

Come dear May!

The song writer Christian Adolph Overbeck wrote a song entitled Fritzchen an den Mai , which, after setting by Mozart in 1791, became the popular folk song Come, dear May, and do . In the song, a child wishes springtime with the opportunity to play outdoors:

"Come, dear May, and make
the trees green again,
and let us
bloom the little violets by the brook !"

If I don't come today, I'll come tomorrow

The popular saying

"If I don't come today, I'll come tomorrow"

has many variations, such as the life motto of Scarlett O'Hara in the novel Gone with the Wind :

"Tomorrow is also a day"

the original Tomorrow is another day. reads. Sign makers in England have ironically modified this to:

"Tomorrow I must do it - My God it is tomorrow"

The motto is then also applicable:

"What you can get today, just postpone it until tomorrow"

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or the modified proverb from a nursery rhyme by Christian Felix Weisse :

"Tomorrow, tomorrow, just not today, all lazy people say"

(Look there).

Come what may come!

In William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth , the three witches prophesy that Macbeth will become king. Macbeth confronts this prediction with the words:

"Come what come may
time and the hour runs through the roughest day."

“Come what may come;
The hour and time run through the roughest day. "

Theodor Storm takes up these words in his short poem Trost , which has the following wording:

So come what may come!
As long as you live it is day.

And
if you go out into the world, where you are to me, I'm at home.

I see your dear face,
I don't see the shadows of the future.

Similarly with Theodor Fontane in the ballad Archibald Douglas :

And if he bore the old grudge
like on the first day:
Come what should
come and come what may.

The title character decides to risk the wrath of the Scottish king and to return from exile at the risk of all possible consequences.

Come in abundance.

This jokingly used request to appear in large numbers comes from the hymn Praising the Lord, the mighty King of Honor by Joachim Neander . The first stanza ends with the following verses:

"Come
up, wake up psaltery and harp,
let the hymn of praise be heard."

Time will tell

The wisdom of life

"Time will tell."

is translated from Latin.

"Tempus ipsum affert consilium"

or Cum tempore, cum rota . That is supposed to mean confident; In time a solution will be found according to the motto: wait and see and drink tea . Goethe converted the short word of this tendency to act to omission into a poem of patience:

Who wants to find out everything right away!
As soon as the snow melts, it will be found.
No effort helps here!
Are roses, well, they will bloom.

Very radical minds turned the sentence of patience into the warning:

“Come time, come advice, come assassination! - "

Chest of drawers dictatorship

In the novel Ein weites Feld , written by Günter Grass and published in 1995, the file messenger Theo Wuttke, known as "Fonty", a figure modeled on Theodor Fontane , expresses his view of the wife in the period between the fall of the Wall and the restoration of German national unity just sinking GDR :

"We lived in a modest dictatorship."

This saying has been used again and again since 1995 as a starting point for discussions on the subject of "Politics and Society in the GDR", partly with agreement, partly with critical intent. Grass himself largely shares the point of view of his fictional character: “Compared with dictatorships that existed and that still exist, the GDR was a commode dictatorship. I keep this sentence upright. ", Grass confessed in Stern .

The phrase “Kommode dictatorship” originally comes from a letter from Theodor Fontane to his wife Emilie and refers to the German Empire in the era of Kaiser Wilhelm II : “There he [Fontane] complains eloquently and angrily about the depravity of the Prussian nobility the parvenu-like behavior of the citizens, about the eternal reserve lieutenant etcetera, everything that annoyed him about his time, and then, in typical Fontanian way, he relativizes the whole thing and says: 'And yet we have to say that we live in a modest dictatorship . '"

Communism is Soviet power plus electrification of the whole country.

North Korea coat of arms

This famous statement comes from the Russian revolutionary leader Lenin :

«Коммунизм есть Советская власть плюс электрификация всей страны."

Stalin quotes Lenin's words in a 1928 speech at the plenary session of the Moscow Committee and the Moscow Control Commission:

“Anyone who has carefully observed life in the country and compared it with life in the city knows that we have not uprooted the roots of capitalism and have not removed the foundation, the soil from the enemy within. This enemy is asserting itself thanks to the small business, and there is only one means of taking the land out of it: to put the country's economy, including agriculture, on a new technical basis, on the technical basis of modern large-scale production. Only electricity forms such a basis. Communism - that is Soviet power plus electrification of the whole country. "

The Communist Party of Austria sums up this quote in its political mathematics with the following formula:

"Communism = councils + electrification"

The coat of arms of North Korea shows a power station, a dam and a high-voltage pylon, outshined by the red star of communism, surrounded by ears of rice. This representation obviously goes back to the above quote from Lenin.

Queen of the Hearts

Queen Luise of Prussia

This is how the former Crown Princess of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Diana Spencer (Lady Diana) is often referred to today . She gave herself the nickname in an interview at the end of the 20th century. After her accidental death, it found widespread use.

Before that, August Wilhelm Schlegel had already written in his poem “On the day of homage. Berlin July 6, 1798 ”, the Prussian Queen Luise called the“ Queen of Hearts ”.

“… Louisens smile means to joke the grief, / Before your gaze all suffering is gone. / She would be queen of hearts in huts, / She is the goddess of grace on the throne; ... "

- August Wilhelm Schlegel : On the day of homage. Berlin July 6th 1798

Elisabeth Stuart , wife of the Winter King , bore this title in the 17th century . She was the granddaughter of Maria Stuart and sister of Charles I of England . She was Queen of Bohemia for one winter. After the lost battle on the White Mountain in 1620 against the troops of the Catholic princes, she and her husband went into exile in The Hague . Elisabeth Stuart's court in The Hague became the spiritual center of Protestant society. The educated and charming princess was celebrated everywhere as the "Queen of Hearts".

In English the term can also be seen ambiguously. Queen of Hearts refers to the queen of hearts in a card game.

Could people clap along in the cheap seats? The rest of them just rattle the jewels!

The Beatles singer John Lennon said on November 4, 1963 at a gala performance in honor of Queen Elizabeth II in a mischievous tone, while he turned his gaze towards the royal box at the last few words:

“For our last number I'd like to ask your help: Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelery! "

“For our last piece, I ask for your help: Could the people clap along in the cheap seats? And the rest of you, if you just clatter the jewels! "

These words can be heard on the Beatles Anthology Volume One CD in the announcement for the song Twist and Shout .

Beatles drummer Ringo Starr made a similarly cheeky remark during his first American tour at a reception given by the British Ambassador in Washington, DC , Sir David Ormsby-Gore, whom he asked when he left:

"And what are you doing here?"

Konrad, said Mother's wife.

In the children's book Struwwelpeter by the Frankfurt doctor Heinrich Hoffmann, there is The Story of the Thumb Sucker , in which Konrad, who sucks his thumb, has both thumbs cut off with scissors. The picture story begins with the verses:

"'Konrad!' Said the mother's wife,
'I'm going out and you stay there.'"

Concerted action

The expression concerted action is first found in an annual report of the so-called council of experts for the assessment of macroeconomic development from 1965 and is probably modeled on the French action concertée or the English concerted action .

In 1966, Karl Schiller , who later became Federal Minister of Economics, brought the term into the discussion. The concerted action was then launched in 1967 and was a discussion forum that brought together all those involved in economic life in order to control the economy .

Noise in the Secret Annex

Noise in the Secret Annex is the title of a popular comedy and novel by Maximilian Böttcher . In the film, a property manager suspects a woman from the house of stealing bricks and prepares some of them with gunpowder in order to track down the culprit.

The quote is used as a comment on neighborhood disputes.

Scratch a Russian and a tartare will appear.

Tatars

This assessment of the Russians as descendants of the Tatars originated in 1812 during Napoleon's Russian campaign and reads in French:

«Gratte le Russe et vous trouverez le tartare. »

This is to emphasize the Asian character of the Russians.

The Social Democrat Wilhelm Liebknecht wrote in 1872 about the above quote, which he attributed to Talleyrand:

“A Frenchman said of the Russians: 'Gratte le Russe, et le Tartare apparait!' If you scratch the Russian, the tartar comes out. Similarly, one can say of our modern culture: if you scratch today's culture, barbarism comes to the fore. "

Kraweel, Kraweel!

These nonsense words come from the poem Melusine , which the poet Lothar Frohwein (a parody of Peter Handke , played by Loriot) recites in Loriot's film comedy Pappa ante portas and has the following wording:

Kraweel, Kraweel!
Deaf-cloudy ginst on Musenhain,
cloudy-cloudy Ginst on Musenginst.
Kraweel, Kraweel!

The poet is interrupted by violent hiccups and the interjection “A little louder please!”. Loriot parodies bourgeois cultural circles and the behavior of some poets.

Alexander Dick overwrites an article in the Nordbayerischer Kurier about public viewing at the Bayreuth Festival with this quote (although he does not reproduce Loriot completely correctly):

“Beckmesser recites from the Reclam booklet in front of a distant audience - Loriot's 'Papa ante portas' sends his greetings violently: How was that again? 'Deaf green grove in the musenginster - krawehl, krawehl'. "

Krethi and Plethi

The Hebrew words Krethi and Plethi are used in the Old Testament to denote a part of King David's armed forces , more precisely his bodyguard, consisting of Cretans and Philistines . These men were feared and not very popular.

In a figurative sense, the term is now used disparagingly for all kinds of rabble , similar to Hinz and Kunz .

War all against all

The theory of the war of all against all, of the bellum omnium contra omnes, is a central premise of the philosophies of the state that go back to Thomas Hobbes and his book Leviathan (1651). The relevant passage is the following:

“Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that Condition which is called Warre; and such warre, as is of every man, against every man. "

“It shows at this point that as long as people live without a common power that holds them all under their spell, they are in what is called war; and it is a war of all people against all people. "

Hobbes wrote his work against the background of the English Civil War 1642–1649, which claimed countless victims on both sides and, with its chaotic conditions, provided the real model for the lawless state of nature assumed by Hobbes. He also processed information about the social life of the North American natives, as their independence from a state can be viewed as a natural state.

War the palaces!

The Hessian country messenger with the slogan “Peace to the huts! War on the palaces! "

At a meeting of the Paris Jacobins on December 15, 1792, a report to the convent was read out by Deputy Pierre Joseph Cambon , in which it said:

"War to the palaces, peace to the huts!"

In Germany, Georg Büchner popularized and changed the slogan with his leaflet Der Hessische Landbote , published in 1834 :

“Peace to the huts! War on the palaces! "

Elsewhere it says:

“You can sue your neighbor who steals a potato from you; But complain once about the theft that is committed by the state under the name of levy and taxes on your property every day, so that a legion of useless officials can fatten themselves from your sweat: complain once that you are left to the will of a few fat skins and that these Arbitrary law means, complain that you are the farm horses of the state, complain about your lost human rights: Where are courts of law that accept your complaint, where are the judges who rule? "

150 years later, a spontaneous slogan made Büchner's battle cry:

"War the huts, palaces for everyone!"

war of stars

Star Wars is the title of a 1977 American science fiction film.

In 1983, the then US President presented Ronald Reagan the supported through space satellite missile defense system SDI (English: Strategic Defense Initiative , Strategic Defense Initiative ) under the English name Star Wars ( Star Wars ) to the public.

The war feeds the war

Quotation of the general Wallenstein in Friedrich Schiller 's trilogy of the same name (II. The Piccolomini). Accordingly, the war creates its material basis again and again.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

The sentence of the military writer Carl von Clausewitz "The war is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means" is cited inaccurately. In his famous work On War it says:

“We claim against it: The war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with the interference of other means. We say: with the interference of other means, in order to assert at the same time that this political intercourse does not cease through the war itself, is not transformed into something completely different, but that it continues in its essence, whatever the means may be designed, its he helps himself. "

Politics determines the use of military force as a means of resolving a conflict by purpose. The war is always subordinate to politics.

Wars may be waged by others

In the Trojan War , the hero Protesilaos jumped ashore as the first Greek and was also the first to be killed. To comfort his widow Laodameia , the gods allowed the dead man to spend three more happy hours in his wife's bed. When they passed, her heart broke too, and so the couple were allowed to move into the world beyond. Publius Ovidius Naso wrote in his fictitious love letters from famous women of the legendary world to their beloved heroes:

"Bella gerant alii, Protesilaus amet."

"May other wars wage, Protesilaus should love!"

This gave rise to the well-known distich about the marriage policy of the Habsburgs in the 17th century :

“Bella gerant alii, tu, felix Austria, nube! Nam quae Mars aliis, dat tibi regna Venus !. "

“May others wage war, you, happy Austria, get married! Because what Mars gives to others, the divine Venus gives you . "

The phrase " Felix Austria " (happy Austria ) can already be found on a seal of Duke Rudolf IV in 1363.

Critique of Pure Reason

Critique of Pure Reason is the main work of the philosopher Immanuel Kant and represents a milestone in his philosophy.

“Criticism” is not to be understood as a complaint, reproach or degradation, but in the original sense of the Greek word “krinein” (separate, differentiate, judge) as analysis, sifting and checking. Above all, "criticism" here means drawing the line between the knowable and the unknowable.

Criticism of the heart

Critique of the Heart is the first collection of poems by Wilhelm Busch , who after the great success of his cheerful picture stories wanted to show that he also had serious sides to offer. He published a collection of poems, which he named based on Kant's main work. However, this met with incomprehension from his audience and initially was not a success.

From this collection come poems such as Self-Criticism has a lot to offer :

Self-criticism has a lot to offer.
Suppose I blame myself:
First , I have the profit
that I'm so pretty modest;
Second, people think,
The man is all honesty;
Thirdly, I also
snatch this mouthful in advance of the other criticisms;
And fourthly, I also hope for a
contradiction that I approve of.
So it finally comes out
that I have a very splendid house.

Crocodile tears

The saying crocodile tears cry for hypocritical compassion goes back to the medieval theory of nature, according to which the crocodile weeps like a child to attract and devour its victims. The transferred meaning Crocodili lachrymae was only spread by Erasmus of Rotterdam and is known throughout Europe ( English crocodile tears , French larmes de crocodile ).

The expression probably originated from the observation that crocodiles secrete tear-like secretions when devouring their prey and that small crocodiles announce their arrival three days before hatching with a kind of “baby cry”.

For Michael Ende , crocodile tears are an important ingredient in the satan archaeo lies and holy wish punch ; Since magicians cannot even shed false tears, the main character uses those tears in a “particularly good vintage” that “a friendly head of state” once sent him.

Cool to the heart

This idiom comes from Goethe's ballad Der Fischer , which begins with the following verses:

"The water rushed, the water swelled,
a fisherman sat by it,
looked calmly at the fishing rod,
cool to the heart."

Future events cast their shadows.

"Future events cast their shadows before." Comes from the ballad "Lochiel's Warning" by the Scottish poet Thomas Campbell . There it says:

The evening of life gives me mysterious wisdom,
And future events cast their shadows.

In today's German usage it usually means: "Great events cast their shadows ahead".

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