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Catfish · 12-13-20, 07:15 AM

"Da beisst die Maus keinen Faden mehr ab."
~ "The mouse does not bite the thread off anymore"
Meaning "This is exactly so/there is no changing that."

(Arbitrary knowledge editor insert: Old german farmer's houses and sheds were always subject to mice eating up corn and seeds and bread, so traps were invented to catch/kill them.
One of those traps had a thread barring the way to bread or cheese, that had to be gnawed through in order to get to the food, and this thread also held a heavy wooden block towering over the path.
So when a mouse had bitten through the thread the block came down with negative effect for the poor mouse, so the latter did not bite through any thread anymore.)

12-13-20, 07:15 AM	#59
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 16,897 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	"Da beisst die Maus keinen Faden mehr ab." ~ "The mouse does not bite the thread off anymore" Meaning "This is exactly so/there is no changing that." (Arbitrary knowledge editor insert: Old german farmer's houses and sheds were always subject to mice eating up corn and seeds and bread, so traps were invented to catch/kill them. One of those traps had a thread barring the way to bread or cheese, that had to be gnawed through in order to get to the food, and this thread also held a heavy wooden block towering over the path. So when a mouse had bitten through the thread the block came down with negative effect for the poor mouse, so the latter did not bite through any thread anymore.) __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.