The theater produced lively local plays. Behind the theater was a garden restaurant with chairs and tables said to have been painted green. Another theory points to French fortune-telling cards where Pik Neun English: Nine of Spade is a green card and forebodes bad luck. Idiom : Wild horses can't drag me there. Literally : No ten horses will get me there. Colloquial for "absolutely refusing to go somewhere or do something".
Origin : One explanation for this idiom apparently goes back to the Middle Ages when ten horses were not enough compensation for taking a bride. Another, more obvious one, is that horses are strong animals, but the person's dislike for doing something happens to be even stronger. Idiom : Kick from the 11 meter penalty spot in soccer.
Literally : Shooting eleven meters. A punishment given to a player after specific serious foul-play offenses within the penalty area. The ball can then be kicked from the eleven meter point directly onto the goal; penalty shot. Origin : "Elfmeter" signals that the spot is 11 meters away from the goal line. The penalty area 16 meter from the goal posts and the 11 meter penalty spot were introduced in The first "penalty" shoot-out to decide a tied game score in the World Cup was on January 9th, , when Tunisia beat Morocco.
Idiom : It's high time. Literally : It's five to twelve. It's high time we intervened or stopped something. Origin : One story about this idiom goes back to earlier times when a master builder and his crew were working on the scaffolding of a church tower. At "five to twelve" they would be warned to come down quickly, because the loud ring of the church bells would endanger the hearing of whoever was close by. You also hear it as a warning of the impending climate change crisis.
When you think about it, most of these expressions are quite apropos for many moments in our lives right now. How often have I thought to myself: "Darauf habe ich null Bock" I really don't feel like doing this. Term » Definition. Word in Definition. How to pronounce Gruene? Alex US English. David US English. Mark US English. Daniel British. Libby British.
Mia British. Karen Australian. Hayley Australian. Some of the first settlers of this family name were: Grune Settlers in United States in the 18th Century Christoph Grune, who arrived in America in Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about , passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
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