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yew@diasp.eu
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recently posted some French - English idioms, thought some German - English would be fun too ... got them via

Wenn der Kuchen spricht hat der Kruemel ruhig zu sein - The crumble has to be quiet when the cake is talking - When grown ups are talking, children should listen/be quiet

Ich lach mich krumm - I laugh myself bent - That is really funny

Du bist allererste Sahne - You are the very first cream - You are the best

Sich pudelwohl fuehlen - To feel as good as a poodle - To feel on top of the world

Mit jemandem unter vier Augen sprechen - To talk with someone under four eyes - To talk privately with someone

Nicht alle Tassen im Schrank haben - Not to have all cups in the cupboard - Not the sharpest knife in the drawer

Dumm wie Bohnenstroh sein - To be as dumb as a bundle of bean straw - To be as thick as two short planks, to be very stupid

Du gehst mir auf den Keks - You get on my cookie - You get on my nerves

Geh dahin wo der Pfeffer waechst - Go where the pepper is growing - Go take a long walk off a short pier

Null acht fuenfzehn - Zero eight fifteen - Nothing special

Das kommt mir nicht in die Tuete - That doesn't go in my bag - It's not my kind of thing

Das ist nicht das gelbe vom Ei - That's not the yolk of the egg - It's not exactly brilliant

Ich habe keinen Bock - I have no buck - I can't be bothered

Hummeln im Hintern haben - To have bumble-bees in one's bottom - To have ants in the pants

Ganz aus dem Haeuschen sein - To be out of his/her house - To be really excited

Auch ein blindes Huhn findet mal ein Korn - A blind chicken will find a corn eventually - Something good that happens by chance

Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen - Freedom, Joy and Omelette - Everything's absolutely fine

Jemanden durch den Kakao ziehen - To pull someone through the cocoa - To pull someone's leg

Die Sau raus lassen - To let the sow out - To let your hair down

Wo drueckt der Schuh? - Where does the shoe pinch? - What troubles you?

Mit dem linken Fuss aufstehen - Got up with the left foot - To have one of those days

Ich seh Schwarz - I see black - I have a bad feeling about it

Herz in die Hose rutschen - The heart slides into the trousers - My heart sank

Die Haare vom Kopf fressen - To eat the hair from someone's head - To eat someone out of house and home

funny, did not know da first and da last one, never heard of it in 64 years ... I #love #language and #idioms and ... I love #fun, #German and #English ... #hahahahaha!

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dkkhorsheed@diasp.org
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#Woman #Dancing #Fancy #EadweardJamesMuybridge #English #Photographer #Pioneer #Photographic #Studies #Motion #Motion-Picture #Projection #AnimalLocomotion #Cinematography #History #Art #Our #World

Woman Dancing (fancy), 1887, plate 187

Animal Locomotion by Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard James Muybridge (pron.: /ˌɛdwərd ˈmaɪbrɪdʒ/; 9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and in motion-picture projection. He adopted the name Eadweard Muybridge, believing it to be the original Anglo-Saxon form of his name. He immigrated to the United States as a young man but remained obscure until 1868, when his large photographs of Yosemite Valley, California, made him world famous. Muybridge is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion in 1877 and 1878, which used multiple cameras to capture motion in stop-action photographs, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip used in cinematography.

In his earlier years in San Francisco, Muybridge had become known for his landscape photography, particularly of the Yosemite Valley. He also photographed the Tlingit people in Alaska, and was commissioned by the United States Army to photograph the Modoc War in 1873. In 1874 he shot and killed Major Harry Larkyns, his wife's lover, and was acquitted in a jury trial on the grounds of justifiable homicide. He travelled for more than a year in Central America on a photographic expedition in 1875.

In the 1880s, Muybridge entered a very productive period at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, producing over 100,000 images of animals and humans in motion, capturing what the human eye could not distinguish as separate movements. He spent much of his later years giving public lectures and demonstrations of his photography and early motion picture sequences. He also edited and published compilations of his work, which greatly influenced visual artists and the developing fields of scientific and industrial photography.

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