These DUTCH EXPRESSIONS sound HILARIOUS to foreigners! 

Altijd een goed idee, anders blijven we oude koeien uit de sloot halen...

Oh ok so it’s like when we say a problem is “squashed” in English.

@Jerry Vdm Can't keep pulling on that dead horse

@@pettylabelle7944 not exactly, it really means putting it behind because both realize there are more important things, squashed has more a connotation of "putting it aside with force without resolve" that might just be my interpretation, but if we mean that we say "daar praten we niet over" (we won't talk about that) , zand erover , really is dutch in the sense that you can see it in the context of polders; to build a solid foundation to move upwards from, generally theres been a good heart to heart before you decide to put sand over the matter and encase it , not gone, not flattened but as a monument to the experience.

Water under the bridge

it's hilarious there are even many certain storms they don't give you rainbows but damages, shipwrecks and even accidents....🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂

Ah, op die fiets!

Nou die is er ook even lekker in gefietst.

joh ga fietsen stelen

@@miak9987 op het Damrak ;)

Je kunt beter over je fiets lullen dan over je lul fietsen

Denise ik ben Vlaming en ik heb nog nooit van deze uitspraak gehoord

Geniaal, zie t al helemaal voor me "on that bicycle" 😂

Ik heb als Vlaming een Nederlandse vriend, en toen ik hem de eerste keer die uitdrukking hoorde gebruiken, wist ik eerst niet zeker of dit nu een echte uitdrukking was, of het gewoon aan hem lag :p Ondertussen heb ik het idd al vaker gehoord, maar die allereerste keer...ik kon me gewoon niet concentreren op wat er verder gezegd werd omdat die uitdrukking me gewoon zó vreemd in de oren klonk.

@@speedybostroe 🤣 Zo grappig! Je staat er zelf niet bij stil hoe raar sommige Nederlandse uitdrukkingen zijn. Maar jullie Vlamingen kunnen er ook wat van. Woorden als scheefpoeper = vreemdganger 🤣 Of 'die kan nogal een zaag spannen'. Maar goed, in het Nederlands zou dat 'wat een zeikerd zeg' zijn. 🤣

Oh op die fiets

Michel Griffioen precies dat!

Zal hij leuk vinden. Jij nog bedankt voor kopspijkers

Graag gedaan, Tommy! Binnenkort keren we eenmalig terug op de buis bij DWDD.

totally

I didn't knew this one yet. I love it!🤣

its used in a situation like you get a free second hand car that works fine but has a small dent in it , you shoudnt complain about it having a dent and should being exited about a free car.

In English the same. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

same as in German: Einem geschenkten Gaul schaut man nicht ins Maul.

Its also the same in french: à cheval donné on ne regarde pas les dents.

Dat komt omdat je de leeftijd van een paard kan bepalen door naar zijn gebit te kijken.

@@christiang.7926 Hah, good one, sayings get so much better when they rhyme neatly. German wins this round :)

Ik vind de Spaanse uitdrukking pan comido leuk. In het Nederland zou je zeggen: appeltje eitje.

@@fransbuijs808 dank u wel voor uw commentaar. Ik ben vergeten dat gezegde te noemen. Dit is interessant, maar de Nederlandse is mooier vanwege de verkleinwoorden. Het is heel schattig. Ik neem nota van dit gezegde om het snel te zeggen. 😄

heel waar 😭

Zeker in NL.

"our expressions more weird than English ones". The video did not say that at all.

In that case you probably have/had Dutch ancestors. You should try to find the Dutch expressions in this painting. There are 125 of them. Painter is Breughel the Elder (senior) nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederlandse_Spreekwoorden#/media/Bestand%3APieter_Brueghel_the_Elder__-The_Dutch_Proverbs-__Google_Art_Project.jpg It was painted in, I think, 1559.

'Geen nagel hebben om aan je kont te krabben' is probably the Dutch 'they don't have a pot to piss in'.

@@maryhunter6389 "Geen pot om in the pissen hebben" zeggen we hier nog steeds in sommige delen van west vlaanderen.

Not having finger nails to scratch your a$$.. ;-)

Die laatste twee ken ik niet... Die eerst zag ik op mijn KLOMPEN aankomen :P

Wat dact je van: Je weet maar nooit hoe een koe een haas vangt, of : hier komt de aap uit de mouw

Potvoordriedubbeltjes ;)

@@aorta538 En nu vraag ik me af hoeveel mensen nog weten wat een "dubbeltje" is...

@@TheRealTricky "A lesbian for three dimes" verstaan ze wel...

Wie mooi wil zijn moet pijn lijden is "who wants to be beautiful, must suffer some pain"

or you can just google that

Well rule nr 1, you can not complain about a gift! You can not look a given horse in the mouth! What's not to understand!

Also, expectation is the source. Of disappointment.

Ik moest hier ook direct aan denken "we going to give them a cookie of their own dough"🤣

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Idd ^

Ik ken wel simpleenglish van "I am Vicky and I am British, and I am Jay and I'm American"... een koppel op leeftijd die op hele speelse en humoristische wijze Engelse les geeft. Misschien niet vergelijkbaar met dit, maar wel taalles met een knipoog.

Indeed, coming from the country side, especially for the older farmers it is the first ting they do; look into a horse mouth to estimate the age’ .

Naast je schoenen lopen betekend verwaand zijn

Door gestoken kaart = foul play

well that's awkward okay, I didn't fully know the meaning of naast je schoenen lopen, but doorgestoken kaart is still what I said, but you just found the single (double? eh) word for it. But you also misspelled it, it's foul play. For the people reading this thread, 'verwaand zijn' means being conceited and selfish, looking down on others.

You mean he butchered many of them, which is not the same. Amusing nevertheless though.

@@forkless I made an ironic remark since van Gaal's bad English was infamous over here.

Betekenis???

@@doinavelican5997 'I won't let you take the cheese of my sandwich' which means standing your ground, 'Hit by the wing of a mill (to the head)' is someone with a screw loose and 'Now my clog breaks' means when the unexpected happens.

You would be surprised how Dutch the USA actually is. The pilgrim fathers took a lot of Dutch heritage to the new found land after all, anything from the declaration of Independence that is not too different from the Dutch one, up till your Constitution and all the ideas of free speech, free trade (Wall Street stock exchange) and so on that came with it. Even the American icon... The Donut... is but a Dutch invention. So it isn't surprising that some of our expressions got integrated into culture over there. Also did you know that the Netherlands is the ONLY country to have EVER conquered the United Kingdom by slaying it's King at the Battle of the Boyne? They just aren't proud of it and so you never hear them about it, but the United Kingdom was under Dutch rule as well.

Could be, just like New York (in the past New Amsterdam), Wallstreet and even santa Claus, sinterklaas, sint (which means saint) Klaas aka Nicolaas (also niclaus).

@@LogiForce86 I am Dutch, but it is wrong to say that there was a battle of the Boyne and that the Dutch "conquered" the UK or was under Dutch rule. The Dutch king was invited, and he could only rule on the terms of the British Parliament. The Sovereign was his wife. It was strictly speaking not even William's "rule". The battle of the Boyne was so small, it was not even a battle. If you want to be that chauvinistic, you could better mention the Dutch Raid on the Medway. But even that was not a battle. Of the bigger (sea) battles in the 17th century, the UK won nearly every time, or it was sometimes inconclusive.

@@ronaldderooij1774 Do not forget that you are talking about a time long before emancipation. Of course women weren't powerless creatures and had their own circles and ways in which they spread their influence, but the husband was still the one to listen to. Even in this day and age of emancipation a couple influences each other, so even Maxima influencing politics while Willem can not involve himself with politics is something I personally frown upon. I digress. What I am saying is that official titles often only tell half of the story as you can not under any circumstances ignore the personal relationships. The Battle of Medway was also important and more of an infiltrate and destroy mission than anything else, but the Battle at the Boyne was a decisive turning point for England as well as Ireland. It is after all still celebrated by the Irish. I am not saying you are wrong history wise though. It can get quite complex after all, and even I might be completely wrong. I am not a historian, not in the slightest. Personally I recently found the era quite interesting, and I do also believe that the Golden Age is something we should look at again. Not because of the slave trade but more so because of the Enlightenment. I think we are forgetting a lot of important lessons learned back then.

Snel op de teentjes getrapt, of iemand met lange tenen.

There's nothing rude about our sayings.

Can you give us an example?

Spanish sayings have harder content somehow... So I find Dutch ones very nice.

I doubt it

Of course they know by now. Many international students, expats and travelers are also going down the Brabant region in Eindhoven (my birthplace). The City of Lights as some might call it.

​@@sonerkamer2678 Well "City Of Lights" sounds better than "Lampengat".

@@TheRealTricky well yes, but actually no

I think they do since this summer school is in Drenthe

Catnium; "Unfortunately peanut butter"

"sadly, that's the way it is, nothing can be done" these two words helaas pindakaas only go together because they rhyme, there is no meaning to connect peanut butter with misfortune. "helaas pindakaas" is said when there is misfortune but it is not very serious, or if you're not very empathetic with the other person's misfortune. a rude shop owner might say it if you order just as they're closing up and they're refusing you service.

Zeg makker

Helaas kennen alleen wij Tukkers deze prachtige uitspraak. POAR NEEM'N!!! 🍺🍻

Deze personen leven bijna allemaal in de randstad.

En dat betekent...?

@@TheJenniferKK Jij bent overduidelijk geen Tukker. Zoek maar op!

@@LeonKerkdijk Heb nooit beweerd tukker te zijn. En opmerkingen van het type "zoek maar op" kun je natuurlijk net zo goed niet maken. Slaat nergens op.

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