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"Gutted" - A football fan watches his team lose.

Not to be confused with literally being disembowelled, someone that says they're "gutted" is devastated or extremely upset.

You're holding it(e.g a hammer) like a nun is holding a sailors "instrument"

Markus

"Hank Marvin" - "Hank Marvin" is Cockney rhyming slang for "starving."

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An off topic question.

Hank Marvin wasn't he part of the group The Shadows ?

Markus
End of an off....

He most certainly was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Marvin

Rhyming slang: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang

Die Katze ist den Bach runter.

The cat went down the river.
It means there is nothing more to change.

Steif wie ein Brett or steif wie ein Ritter
Hard as a board or hard as a knight.
It means very drunk.

"Um den heissen Brei herumreden"
~ "To talk around the hot mash"

Meaning ~
to talk and vaguely describe a lot, but never come to (or evade) the point.

^There is a similar saying in Swedish

Walk like the cat around hot porridge
Means avoid speaking or acting directly about something

Markus

"Lurgy" - If someone's "caught the lurgy," they're suffering from cold or flu-like symptoms.

Here are some Swedish sayings.

Behind the float
Means Do not understand what the matter is

Pray for their sick mother
Means To ask for something on behalf of someone else, when in fact it's the person who want it

Burn for something
Means Be very committed to something

It became a pancake of it all
Means When something has completely failed

Markus

"Minging" - Something unpleasant, unappetising, or highly unattractive might be described as "minging."

This is also a phrase in American English. It can mean one of two things:

1. To go to hell for something one has done. E.g. "You'll burn for this."
2. Something similar to what it means in Swedish, except it's used only in a sort of lewd way. E.g. "I'm burnin', I'm burnin', I'm burnin' for you!"

What Dönitz never grasped!
 

"Mortal" - "Mortal" describes someone highly intoxicated or drunk in a sloppy manner.