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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.
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.