The romantics made him heal, dreamy place. The relationship between the Germans and their forest is very special. So it is no wonder that there are a lot of Proverbs around the tree.
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Popular German phrases around the forest
The Germans and their forest
Since centuries it is described, painted and celebrated in song: the German forest. Whether Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Caspar David Friedrich, forests are in the literature and art everywhere. Germans love their forest and so are the types to talk about wood, trees and the forest today is part of the language.
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Popular German phrases around the forest
Wooden bear in the woods
Whether it’s wood in the forest or owls to Athens: a completely unnecessary action is described. In English, the saying means to carry “coals to Newcastle” – also absurd, because the coal was for centuries one of the main export products of the British city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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Popular German phrases around the forest
The forest for the trees
Who literally sees the forest for the trees, tangled up in Details and overlook the obvious solution. The German Poet and Translator Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813) used the phrase often in his works and made them so well known.
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Popular German phrases around the forest
Whistling in the forest
Sometimes the forest is dark, and it may happen that you have to this alone, cross – who is whistling a tune, trying to make themselves in a difficult Situation with courage. Also in the still-popular Grimm fairy tales, the forest is often a dark, menacing backdrop.
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Popular German phrases around the forest
I think I’m in the forest
“This can’t be true!”, “That’s impossible!”, “Jeepers!” Utter amazement can be good, too, with the phrase “I think, I stand to Express’ in the forest”.
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Popular German phrases around the forest
As one calls into the forest, so it echoes
Also, this figure of speech uses a catchy image, because what is called in the forest, echoes, often as an Echo. In other words, how to behave with other people, you will be treated well.
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Popular German phrases around the forest
Like the axe in the forest behaviour
Rude, reckless Behavior describes the proverb of the axe in the forest, a sharp-cut tool, the trees split and fall. The English counterpart to this is the behavior of the cops in China.
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Popular German phrases around the forest
The Silence of the forest prevails
No one raises the Hand, the questions of the teacher in the class remain unanswered or There is the proverbial “Silence in the forest” – whether it is from insecurity, disinterest, or ignorance. Absolute silence – not a rustle of Leaves, Ästeknacken or birdsong in the forest, rather an exceptional situation.
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Popular German phrases around the forest
The Germans and their forest
Since centuries it is described, painted and celebrated in song: the German forest. Whether Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Caspar David Friedrich, forests are in the literature and art everywhere. Germans love their forest and so are the types to talk about wood, trees and the forest today is part of the language.
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Popular German phrases around the forest
Wooden bear in the woods
Whether it’s wood in the forest or owls to Athens: a completely unnecessary action is described. In English, the saying means to carry “coals to Newcastle” – also absurd, because the coal was for centuries one of the main export products of the British city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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Popular German phrases around the forest
The forest for the trees
Who literally sees the forest for the trees, tangled up in Details and overlook the obvious solution. The German Poet and Translator Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813) used the phrase often in his works and made them so well known.
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Popular German phrases around the forest
Whistling in the forest
Sometimes the forest is dark, and it may happen that you have to this alone, cross – who is whistling a tune, trying to make themselves in a difficult Situation with courage. Also in the still-popular Grimm fairy tales, the forest is often a dark, menacing backdrop.
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Popular German phrases around the forest
I think I’m in the forest
“This can’t be true!”, “That’s impossible!”, “Jeepers!” Utter amazement can be good, too, with the phrase “I think, I stand to Express’ in the forest”.
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Popular German phrases around the forest
As one calls into the forest, so it echoes
Also, this figure of speech uses a catchy image, because what is called in the forest, echoes, often as an Echo. In other words, how to behave with other people, you will be treated well.
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Popular German phrases around the forest
Like the axe in the forest behaviour
Rude, reckless Behavior describes the proverb of the axe in the forest, a sharp-cut tool, the trees split and fall. The English counterpart to this is the behavior of the cops in China.
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Popular German phrases around the forest
The Silence of the forest prevails
No one raises the Hand, the questions of the teacher in the class remain unanswered or There is the proverbial “Silence in the forest” – whether it is from insecurity, disinterest, or ignorance. Absolute silence – not a rustle of Leaves, Ästeknacken or birdsong in the forest, rather an exceptional situation.
German laugh a Ast and grate the licorice, the wood eye is on the alert, sometimes it’s shaking like a leaf, or comes from the sidetracked. In German there are a number of idioms and Proverbs around the forest. Some, like “the forest for the trees” are self-explanatory, others less so.
A Branch of a laugh, so, turn in front of a loud laughter, is due, according to the society for German language (GfdS), that of Ast was once an image for projection, and who roars with Laughter, makes a hump.
Thus, it is unclear the origin of the “watchful wooden eye” is, so clearly the use of this phrase: “keep your eyes peeled” is a warning not to be on the table.
In our picture gallery we show that idioms around the forest, it is still there and what they mean.
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