1. Luck in Love  

For those of you who are hard core board/card gamers, maybe it’s best if you loose every not and there. As the Germans say, “Glück im Spiel, pech in der Liebe” which translates to “Luck in the game, unlucky in love.” I’d rather get lucky oh sorry, I meant be lucky in love any day!

2. Cups in the Cupboard

For your friends who eventually all go a bit crazy every now and then, say as the Germans would say, “Alle Tassen im Schrank” which means that someone has “lost their marbles”.

3. Hot Love

You know those times when you’re cooking, and you’re too lazy to grab the oven mitten?  That’s ok! The Germans say, “Wer heiß anfassen kann, kann auch heiß lieben” which says that “Those who can pick up hot things, can love hot”. No wonder I burn myself so often!

4. I Understand Only Train Station

The German phrase “Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof” doesn’t mean that the person speaking only understands the language of the train station, but that he is absolutely confused.

5. Having Pig

Remember those times when you didn’t bother to study for a big exam and you aced it? Or that time you crashed your car and came out without a scratch on you? Ya, that’s called “Schwein gehabt!” otherwise known as “having pig” or more commonly “to have a stroke of luck”. In Germany, pigs are considered to be lucky, therefore you were lucky when you would have otherwise had the opposite.

6. Life is not a Pony farm

When you’re down on your luck, struggling to get through it, well guess what buddy? Suck it up, buttercup! As the Germans say, “das Leben ist kein Ponyhof”. In other words, “life isn’t a bed of roses” nor is it fair.

7. Learning English?

Are you learning English and struggle with the grammar? It’s ok if you make mistakes! Just make sure to say, “Mein Englisch ist unter aller Sau!” or in other words, you’re “English is really bad”, so please excuse me!

8. The Devil Eats Flies

Are you a picky person that has to have exactly what you want even when the options aren’t there? Well, as the Germans say, “In der Not frisst der Teufel Fliegen”, otherwise known as “Beggars can’t be choosers”.

9. Hop and Malt is Lost!

What is a list of German idioms without one about beer!? If “Hopfen und Malz ist verloren” then you might as well just give up because its a “lost cause” This idioms stems from the process of brewery a good German beer. Should something go wrong during the process, then the ingredients were considered wasted, therefore, a good beer was lost.

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***All photos found via Google & edited by me!***

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