Suggested Germanisms
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"cuddly toy" or "Teddy Bear", in Germany often used as a nick name for a spouse.
People let me tell you 'bout my best friend, he's a real Kuschelbär.
When someone makes more fuss about something than it ist worht, he ist doing an Affentanz. When there is a great effort to reach a ridiculous goal, that's an Affentanz.
It literaly means: "Monkey's dance."
They did an Affentanz just to get their license plate. Why does it take such an Affentanz to geht a Visa?
Damit ist eine schüchterne und unscheinbare Person gemeint.
Der Begriff entstammt aus dem Bild der einzeln an der Mauer wachsenden Blume, die fernab von anderen Artgenossen ihr Dasein fristet, z. B. das auch Mauerblümchen genannte Zimbelkraut.
transl. worry bacon, the weight you put on when you're anxious or excess weight gained due to emotion-caused overeating.
I wish I could get rid of my Kummerspeck
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mother land, country of origin
I left Germany, my Mutterland, a couple of years ago
being happy forever without having a matching reason
With my German Glückselligkeit I could conquer America.
someone who is terribly grumpy in the mornings
I'm a Morgenmuffel, such a grumpy guts first thing in the morning...
a noun, mostly used in the phrase "ins Fettnäpchen treten", (to step into the Fettnäpfchen). It is used to describe a person, who screws up as often as he cans without intending to do so. If, for example, you tell a chesse producer, (without knowing that he is a cheese producer), that you hate cheese, than you stepped into the Fettnäpfchen.
He really stepped into the Fettnäpchen as he called his vegetarian fried a bloodthirsty menace.
Probably a word from yiddish, meaning "mess" in a rather trivialized way. It usually describes a situation involving people. A dirty room would not be a Schlamassel.
The financial crisis really caused a schlamassel. The situation at work is a real schlamassel.
little lump of sweetness, cute kid
My cute, little nephew constantly smiles - he's such a wonneproppen
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