Nothing is going on
Tote Hose is a phrase that originally comes from the language of young people and means: uneventful or impetuous . This idiom also describes male impotence .
The band named itself Die Toten Hosen after this phrase .
The term has been mentioned in specialist literature since the early 1980s and initially received positive feedback by linguists as "at the same time funny, exclusive and erotic-pictorial". The later assessment by folklore is less positive, for example Hermann Bausinger is of the opinion: “The exclusivity and eroticism of the dead pants should not be examined further here; but it certainly seems that here [...] the creativity and imagery of the youth language is overestimated. "
Use in book titles
- Uta Claus, Rolf Kutschera : Totally dead pants - 12 strong fairy tales. Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-442-08576-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Duden - Hose - spelling, meaning, definition, synonyms, origin .
- ^ Hans Schemann: Deutsche Idiomatik: Dictionary of German idioms in context . Walter de Gruyter. September 29, 2011.
- ↑ Walter Raaflaub: Dead Pants. What men are silent about. A diary. Wörterseh Verlag, 3rd edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-952-32132-4
- ^ Peter Schleuning: Scene language. In: Osnabrückische contributions to language theory 16 (1980), pp. 9–44.
- ^ Hermann Bausinger: People and Language. In: Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 87 (1991), p. 178.