Playboy After Hours

January, 1995

Über DogWe know Germans love their sausage. But we didn't realize that sausages add spice to some of the most colorful idiomatic expressions of everyday German speech. For example, when you want to point out that Heidi has a carefree attitude, you say, Heidi ist wurstig, which is the highly complimentary suggestion that "Heidi is sausage-like." When they speak of motivating someone, Germans use the expression Jemandem die Wurst vor der Nase halten, which means "to hold a sausage i...