Advanced Dutch vocabulary: idioms, nuanced expressions, and words an upper-level learner meets. Front: the Dutch word, phrase, or idiom. Back: English meaning.
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- iets voor een appel en een ei kopen
- to buy something for next to nothing, a bargain
- het gaat mis
- things go wrong, something goes amiss
- struikelen
- to stumble, to fall, to trip over
- jezelf groter maken
- to puff yourself up, to exaggerate one's importance
- je nek uitsteken
- to stick one's neck out, to take a risk
- zoals je bed opmaakt, zo slaap je
- as you make your bed, so you lie in it, you reap what you sow
- aanpakken
- to tackle, to address, to take on
- het zit me niet lekker
- I am not happy about it, it does not sit right with me
- in hetzelfde schuitje zitten
- to be in the same boat, to share a common situation
- de dans ontspringen
- to escape, to avoid the consequences
- nuchter
- sober, straightforward, pragmatic, level-headed
- ontkennen
- to deny, to refuse to admit
- over je toeren gaan
- to go over the top, to exaggerate, to overdo it
- het kan schelen
- it can matter (usually in negative: het kan me geen schelen = I do not care)
- je mond voorbijpraten
- to talk too much, to misspeak, to let something slip