German Proverbs: 'Etwas in den falschen Hals bekommen' Translation & Meaning Explained | Daveinitely

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[markhesse]

As for the English sayings you mentioned, personally I have never heard the one about "down the wrong pipe" as meaning anything other than just the literal sense of choking on something, rather than the figurative meaning of having an overly angry reaction to someone else's actions or words. I've never heard of the saying about "getting hold of the wrong end of the stick, but a similar sounding saying is "getting the short end of the stick" meaning that you have been cheated or that you have lost a contest or maybe in comparison to someone else. A person who is a "perpetual loser" may complain about their bad luck by saying something like, " I always wind up with the short end of the stick." Origin of that is unknown to me.

[arianastitzel]

I haven't heard of those English equivalents either, and I don't think there are any. I think, on that occasion, we just be straight with someone, tell them to hold up, and explain to them what they misunderstood.
("Hold up" is an English idiom meaning to wait, and I think it comes from holding up the reigns of a horse for it to stop - similar to "hold your horses".)

[Parmesana]

we also use that expression if one chokes on saliva or drink..."it went down the wrong pipe"

[caballero]

"Sich auf die Strumpfe machen!" gefällt mir am besten! (Literally, "Get your socks moving!" as a way to say, "Hurry up!")

[MarissaJoyClark]

To get the short end of the stick, I believe, comes from the practice of drawing straws. The person who draws the short straw, the short end of the stick that’s been cut up, is the loser.

To get something down the wrong pipe just means you inhaled something instead of swallowing it and it literally went into your trachea instead of your esophagus.

There’s no good translation for the German phrase except perhaps “someone blew something way out of proportion” - doesn’t mean they don’t understand more that they are making a bigger deal that necessary. Similarly we say “someone made a mountain out of a mole hill.” Same idea, proportionally what has occurred does not justify the person’s reaction to it and perhaps their perception of what has happened is inaccurate and their emotions are making them unable to see what is really going on.

I take the German phrase to mean the person was really ignorant about what happened and got angry because they really had no idea of what was really going on.

[pablomartinez]

Danke. Das ist sehr lustig. Ich weiß nicht warum, aber zuerst dachte ich, dass es etwas mit Fürzen zu tun hatte. Das könnte auch ein falscher Hals sein, oder? LOL.
Die spanische Version ist ziemlich langweilig.