Monday, June 8, 2015

mon., 8 june, 2015: hungarian rhapsody, i.: give us This Day our Daily Curse

HUNGARIAN:   A béka segge alatt... ‡

‡‡)  Lit., “Under the frog’s arse...”  /  Under the frog’s ass...”  =  i.e.,  buried under shiteloads of debt.  NOTE:  Can also mean seriously under the weather or very ill,  but usage usually  in ref. to monetary woes....  The title of Tibor Fischer’s Booker-shortlisted 1st. novel,  Under the Frog, set in post-W.W. II Hungary,  was a cleaned up version of this expression.

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