{"id":654,"date":"2011-03-21T08:28:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T07:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/?p=654"},"modified":"2011-03-21T08:28:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T07:28:44","slug":"an-act-of-god-god-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/an-act-of-god-god-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"An Act of God &#8211; God idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gott hat \u00fcberall seine Hand im Spiel, so dass auch eingefleischte Atheisten und Agnostiker, wenn auch unbewusst, sich gerne auf ihn berufen; nat\u00fcrlich nur in Redewendungen. Auch in anglophonen L\u00e4ndern ist Gott in der Umgangssprache allgegenw\u00e4rtig. Einige Beispiele:<\/p>\n<p><strong>an act of God<\/strong> = h\u00f6here Gewalt<\/p>\n<p><strong>he thinks he is God\u00b4s gift to women<\/strong> = er h\u00e4lt sich f\u00fcr unwiderstehlich<\/p>\n<p><strong>put your trust in God, and keep your powder dry<\/strong> = Vertrauen ist gut, Kontrolle ist\u00a0 besser<\/p>\n<p>PS: Als alleroberste Instanz wird Gott im Englischen nat\u00fcrlich gro\u00df geschrieben.<\/p>\n<p>God\u00b4s Gift to Women ist auch ein Lied mit einem leicht bitteren Unterton einer offenbar amour\u00f6s entt\u00e4uschten Liedermacherin. <\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ds4iJeMNqYs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s Gift To Women<br \/>\nPale moonlight<br \/>\nNeon-bright<br \/>\nWhispers in the early night<\/p>\n<p>Golden mane<br \/>\nRead &#8218;The Game&#8216;<br \/>\nWatch them drawn like moths to flame<\/p>\n<p>Studied the practical tactics of pick-ups<br \/>\nRight down to the pitfalls and hiccups<br \/>\nBefore you start I say &#8218;Stop! It&#8217;s a stick-up!&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>Used to being the guy that gets the girl<br \/>\nBut if we were the last two people in the world<br \/>\nThe human race would face extinction<br \/>\nBefore I&#8217;d get it on, honey<br \/>\nUsed to being the guy that gets the girl<br \/>\nNot if we were the last two people in the world<br \/>\nMister, mister, why haven&#8217;t you gone?<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re God&#8217;s gift to Women then God got it wrong<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gott hat \u00fcberall seine Hand im Spiel, so dass auch eingefleischte Atheisten und Agnostiker, wenn auch unbewusst, sich gerne auf ihn berufen; nat\u00fcrlich nur in Redewendungen. Auch in anglophonen L\u00e4ndern ist Gott in der Umgangssprache allgegenw\u00e4rtig. Einige Beispiele: an act of God = h\u00f6here Gewalt he thinks he is God\u00b4s gift to women = er [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}