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SOME OF MY FAVOURITE GERMAN WORDS & EXPRESSIONS PART II

^{Because of the great feedback on PART I, have some more!}

haargenau – exact, meticulous (lit.: hair-exact)
seinen Senf dazugeben – to put one’s oar in (lit.: to add one’s mustard)
jmd geht der Arsch auf Grundeis (vulg.) – sb is scared shitless (lit.: sb’s butt touches the bottom ice)
sich den Kopf zerbrechen – to think very hard about something (lit.: to break one’s head)
jemandem etwas aus der Nase ziehen – to have to worm sth out of sb (lit.: to pull sth out of sb’s nose)
im Dreieck springen – to be really angry, to be hopping mad (lit.: to jump in a triangle)
am Zahnfleisch daher kommen – to barely manage something (lit.: to arrive on one’s gums)
jemandem etwas hinterherwerfen – to make sth easy for sb (lit.: to throw sth after sb)
rumwurschteln – to mess about (lit.: to sausage around)
das ist mir Wurst – I don’t care (lit.: that is sausage to me)
der Krimskrams / Schnickschnack – stuff
Löcher in die Luft starren – to stare into space with boredom (lit.: to stare holes into the air)
die beleidigte Leberwurst spielen – to pout, to sulk (lit.: to play the offended liver sausage)
einen Vogel haben – to be (a little) crazy (lit.: to have a bird)
die Extrawurst – special treatment (lit.: extra sausage)
der Angsthase – coward, someone who’s easily frightened (lit.: fear-rabbit)
einen Zahn zulegen – to get a move on, to step it up a notch (lit.: to add a tooth)
der Hosenscheißer (vulg.) – coward (lit.: pants-shitter)
der Dreikäsehoch – a small child (lit.: three-cheeses-high)
die Nase voll haben – to have had enough (lit.: to have the nose full)
über seinen Schatten springen – to step out of one’s comfort zone (lit.: to jump over one’s shadow)