Are you bad with money? Then you might have hit the money on the head before. But don’t worry, you’re not alone, people have literally been doing it for ages: „Geld auf den Kopf hauen“ is a German saying that goes back to the Middle Ages.
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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.