Zoe’s Favorite German Idioms!

Zoe Disori Period 4 German 2

Aus den Augen, aus dem Sinn

• Out of sight, out of mind.• Crazy, outrageous

auf den Beinen sein

• To be back on one's feet• Try again

Daumen drücken!

• Keep your fingers crossed! (press your thumbs)

• Wish for luck

Es ist nicht alles Gold, was glänzt.

• All that glitters is not gold.• Something beautiful might not really

be a beautiful person.

Das passt wie die Faust aufs Auge.

• That suits as the fist in eye.• It's all wrong. It's out of place. It

clashes. (colors)

(jemandem) ein Gesicht schneiden

• Engrave one face  • To make a face (at someone)

auf gut Glück

• In good luck• On the off-chance, at random,

trusting to luck

 jemandem aufs Haar gleichen

• Is same in hair • To be the spitting image of someone;

resemble to a T ("resemble to a hair")

etwas in den falschen Hals kriegen

• Something in the wrong neck way • To take something the wrong way

("down the wrong pipe')

im Handumdrehen

• In a flash; in the wink of an eye• Quickly