Featured Germanisms
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translates to "joy of harm", or the malicious pleasure one feels at someone else's misfortune
So when my friend John called a few minutes later from L.A. and mentioned that a mutual friend of ours, whose first book was out (for which he had been grossly overpaid, if you ask me), had gotten a not-very-good review in Newsweek recently, all of a sudden, talking on the cordless phone and nursing my baby in the moonlight, I had a wicked, dazzling bout of schadenfreude.
back pack
I bought a new rucksack to carry my camping gear.
a strong alcoholic drink resembling gin and often flavored with fruit : peach schnapps. ORIGIN from German Schnaps, literally ‘dram of liquor,’ from Low German and Dutch snaps ‘mouthful.’
I'm bloody freezing! I need a schnapps to warm myself up.
healthiness: used to wish someone good health specially to one who has just sneezed.
"Hatchoo" - "Gesundheit"
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This is a spirit, usually mischievous and occasionally malevolent, which manifests its presence by making noises, moving objects, and assaulting people and animals. The term "poltergeist" comes from the German poltern, "to knock," and geist, "spirit."
What is even more frightening is that Poltergeist activity is relatively commonplace.
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the spirit of the age zeitgeist symbolises the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era.
the zeitgeist of the 1920s were affected by economic upturns.
transl. lightning: a fast intensive campaign; a blitzkrieg: an air raid
Deutsche Telekom goes public with a successful sales blitz.
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German superhighway (interstate highway, freeway, expressway)
The Red Sox go through the World Series like a Mercedes on the autobahn.
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