{"id":2931,"date":"2012-07-03T15:48:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T14:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/?p=2931"},"modified":"2012-07-03T15:48:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T14:48:29","slug":"butter-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/butter-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Butter Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obwohl Molkereiprodukte wegen ihres hohen Cholesteringehalts in der Kritik stehen, haben sie in der deutschen und in der englischen Sprache einen festen Platz.<\/p>\n

Genau wie im Deutschen Brot und Butter das Hauptgesch\u00e4ft einer Firma kennzeichnen, spricht man auch im Englischen von bread and butter<\/em>.<\/p>\n

z.B.:<\/p>\n

We can\u00b4t do without our core business, although it\u00b4s old fashioned, it\u00b4s our bread and butter.
\n<\/em>
\nto butter somebody up<\/em> = sich bei jemandem einschmeicheln<\/p>\n

z.B.:<\/p>\n

Stop buttering me up<\/em>, you will get the contract anyways.<\/p>\n

butter wouldn\u00b4t melt in one\u00b4s mouth<\/em> = das Unschuldeslamm spielen.<\/p>\n

z.B.:<\/p>\n

Although it was obvious that she was guilty she looked as though butter wouldn\u00b4t melt in her mouth.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obwohl Molkereiprodukte wegen ihres hohen Cholesteringehalts in der Kritik stehen, haben sie in der deutschen und in der englischen Sprache einen festen Platz. Genau wie im Deutschen Brot und Butter das Hauptgesch\u00e4ft einer Firma kennzeichnen, spricht man auch im Englischen von bread and butter. z.B.: We can\u00b4t do without our core business, although it\u00b4s old […]<\/p>\n","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-2931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2932,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions\/2932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}