If there is one thing that Germans can’t live without - it is definitely bread. Sometimes they overestimate their hunger, put too much on their plate and then make an idiom like “Die Suppe auslöffeln, die man sich selbst eingebrockt hat” out of it. It’s their own fault, no one else is to blame for the bread. Or soup. Or both. But find it out yourself.
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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.