Some more Danish sayings directly translated
Acting for the gallery - Means Theatrical or hypocritical performance, especially to please someone
The Devil and his pump stick - Means in this case a longer explanation
- Is perhaps a pre-Danishization of the Latin baptismal ritual: Abrenuntias Satanae ... an omnibus pompis ejus (Do you forsake the devil and all his being), where pompis has become a pumping stick.
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