2019 is the Chinese year of the pig. The bristles livestock also plays in Germany, an important role in culinary and in many curious phrases.
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You are lucky.
Lucky
Who has pork, undeserved luck. Why Pig? When you protect the worst shooter price got a live Piglet as a consolation. He was still lucky.
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You are lucky.
The Sow let out
Who let the Pig out, goes all out and celebrates, for example, a wild Party. The idiom goes back possibly to a medieval card game where the highest card was the “Saukarte”.
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You are lucky.
No pig was there
How disappointing: To appear to the Party, and there is once again a “no pork”! Clearly, the phrase does not refer to pigs, but on people. “Not a pig” means “nobody”. The – so the image seems to be there to testify – it can happen to you also in the Bundestag. The Chancellor’s.
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You are lucky.
Scrawl
It is not so easy to maintain in the digital age, a beautiful, legible handwriting. The result of the lack of Exercise, sloppy, illegible scrawl, the “bad writing is often”.
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You are lucky.
I think my pig whistles
Pigs squeal and grunt, but they don’t whistle. But who experienced stunned something unheard of, out of the ordinary, believes that his “pig whistles”.
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You are lucky.
Nice, freezing cold
The prefix “sau” makes a number of adjectives much more. It is nice when outside is freezing cold, really, and one feels like a pig in shit.
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You are lucky.
Slop
Pigs are omnivores. Messy, carelessly prepared food, often just as carelessly served, is often referred to as “Slop” – not a compliment for the cook!
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You are lucky.
Lucky
Who has pork, undeserved luck. Why Pig? When you protect the worst shooter price got a live Piglet as a consolation. He was still lucky.
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You are lucky.
The Sow let out
Who let the Pig out, goes all out and celebrates, for example, a wild Party. The idiom goes back possibly to a medieval card game where the highest card was the “Saukarte”.
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You are lucky.
No pig was there
How disappointing: To appear to the Party, and there is once again a “no pork”! Clearly, the phrase does not refer to pigs, but on people. “Not a pig” means “nobody”. The – so the image seems to be there to testify – it can happen to you also in the Bundestag. The Chancellor’s.
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You are lucky.
Scrawl
It is not so easy to maintain in the digital age, a beautiful, legible handwriting. The result of the lack of Exercise, sloppy, illegible scrawl, the “bad writing is often”.
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You are lucky.
I think my pig whistles
Pigs squeal and grunt, but they don’t whistle. But who experienced stunned something unheard of, out of the ordinary, believes that his “pig whistles”.
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You are lucky.
Nice, freezing cold
The prefix “sau” makes a number of adjectives much more. It is nice when outside is freezing cold, really, and one feels like a pig in shit.
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You are lucky.
Slop
Pigs are omnivores. Messy, carelessly prepared food, often just as carelessly served, is often referred to as “Slop” – not a compliment for the cook!
The domestic pig is one of the earliest domesticated animals of the people. In Germany, there were 2018, according to statistics Portal, “Statista” almost 27 million pigs. No wonder in a country to include in the roast pork and the schnitzel the most popular dishes at all.
But for the love of the German people to the bristle cattle, it’s about more than dishes: The pig is regarded for centuries as a good luck charm. Who possessed in the middle ages pigs, was wealthy and didn’t have to go hungry. Today, the luck is wasted animal to new year’s eve in the Form of cute little marzipan pig.
The German language knows a lot of speeches types around the concepts of boar/Sow/Piglet, positive (“pig”) as well as negative (“dirty pig!”). In our pictures gallery, there are even more everyday pig sayings!