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minus-squareLeon@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-24 days agoI’d check SMÄLLARE SPRÄNGNING EXPLOSIV BJÖRNTJÄNST Or maybe ATTENTAT If you can’t find it under any of those they might just not be available in your region yet.
minus-squareRedSnt 🧩♂️👓🖥️@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days ago BJÖRNTJÄNST Brilliant. As a Dane I recognize it as “bjørnetjeneste” (bear favor/service) and comes from this old fable: “The Bear and the Gardener”, but as Russia is often depicted as a bear in satirical cartoons, it works on another level as well.
minus-squareRedSnt 🧩♂️👓🖥️@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoYeah, I noticed in the “Idioms” part of the article I linked, and I’m not surprised, us Danes probably got it from German to begin with.
I’d check
Or maybe
If you can’t find it under any of those they might just not be available in your region yet.
Brilliant. As a Dane I recognize it as “bjørnetjeneste” (bear favor/service) and comes from this old fable: “The Bear and the Gardener”, but as Russia is often depicted as a bear in satirical cartoons, it works on another level as well.
In German it is “Bärendienst”
Yeah, I noticed in the “Idioms” part of the article I linked, and I’m not surprised, us Danes probably got it from German to begin with.