The stress level can be high before Christmas — buying gifts and preparing family reunions. Here are a few German expressions to stay calm and relax during the year-end rush. In the weeks before ...

What blinds, but does not rust? What can make its way through the digestive track, but also fall down? The answer, according to popular German idioms, is one of the greatest feelings in the world: ...

Idioms in a foreign language are some of the hardest things to master. Here are some fun German idioms to give you a head start. However bamboozling expressions and phrases are at first, it's ...

Anyone learning a foreign language knows "you should not translate idioms literally," says Rolf-Bernhard Essig in his most recent book about phrases and idioms, "Phoenix aus der Asche" (Phoenix from ...

Because apparently, even when Germans aren't talking about food... they still like to talk about food. Germany is famous for a lot of things, not least its mouth-watering array of national foods and ...

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Teach German idioms and vocabulary with the help of F1 driver Nico Hülkenberg. Hülkenberg explains German phrases that he uses in Formula 1 and translates them into English for us. This models the use ...

"Abschleppen" is the word for towing, but depending on context can also refer to picking someone up, say in a bar. "Spätzünder" directly translates as "late igniter," and is the equivalent of the ...