Why are Germans so obsessed with butter? Well, we won’t be able to solve that mystery for you, but we certainly did some digging on this famous German saying and buttered all the fish with all the butter so you can brag with this fun fact in front of your friends.
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Ich versteh nur Bahnhof - when it comes to idioms, expressions and proverbs, you only understand train station? In this series of short clips, the studierendenWERK BERLIN explains the most common German sayings and sheds some light on the origins, history and contexts they are used in.