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| AlOlaf Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4936 days ago 491 posts - 617 votes  Speaks: English*, GermanC2 Studies: Danish | Message 1 of 14 01 November 2013 at 9:39pm | IP Logged |
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Kan nogen forklare mig oprindelsen og betydningen af udtrykket "av min arm"?
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| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5387 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 2 of 14 01 November 2013 at 11:24pm | IP Logged |
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It means: "Ouch, my arm!"
(if it were Swedish, it would have been "from my arm") I hope you did not beat anyone? :-( Edited by Cabaire on 02 November 2013 at 1:16am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| AlOlaf Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4936 days ago 491 posts - 617 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC2 Studies: Danish | Message 3 of 14 02 November 2013 at 1:46am | IP Logged |
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Nei, det har jeg ikke gjort. Jeg troede bare, det kunne være et idiomatisk udtryk. Mange tak.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6491 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 14 02 November 2013 at 8:48am | IP Logged |
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It IS an idiomatic expression because it has nothing to do with your physical arm. You use it when you have made an unexpected and unpleasant discovery, mostly about something you have forgotten to do and now have to do as fast as possible. Like driving your kids to school and forgetting one of them... Edited by Iversen on 02 November 2013 at 8:49am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5122 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 5 of 14 02 November 2013 at 12:12pm | IP Logged |
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For me that expression will always be linked to the TV-series Matador, where the maid of one of the rich
families spent her day talking on the phone saying that expression all the time. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6491 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 14 02 November 2013 at 3:25pm | IP Logged |
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I have never watched Matador so I can't have learnt it there...
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6697 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 14 02 November 2013 at 4:57pm | IP Logged |
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I've only heard it in Matador, but can't remember what the Swedish subtitles said in those scenes.
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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4616 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 8 of 14 02 November 2013 at 11:58pm | IP Logged |
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An interesting title for a course:
http://www.amazon.de/min-arm- D%C3%A4nisch-Lehrwerk-Deutschsp rachige-Paket/dp/3934106463 also possibly of interest: Matador Edited by montmorency on 03 November 2013 at 12:01am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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