Aus dem Häuschen sein
Meaning: To be beside yourself with excitement.
Language: German
Literally: To be out of your little house
Category: Daily Life
Origin: Leaving one's 'little house' — one's composure — pictures being carried away by strong emotion.
Equivalents in other languages
- English: be on cloud nine — literally: to be on cloud nine
- Turkish: Etekleri zil çalıyor — literally: Their skirts are ringing bells
More idioms — Daily Life
- No dar pie con bola — To get everything wrong; to do nothing right.
- Capire fischi per fiaschi — To misunderstand completely.
- Avere un chiodo fisso — To be obsessed with one idea.
- Tirar o pai da forca — Said of something done in frantic urgency.
- Гол как сокол (Gol kak sokol) — Dirt poor; without a thing to your name.
- 石橋を叩いて渡る (Ishibashi o tataite wataru) — To be extremely, even excessively, cautious.
More German idioms
- Jemandem auf den Keks gehen — To get on someone's nerves.
- Einen Kater haben — To have a hangover.
- die Nase voll haben — To be fed up or exhausted by something.
- Dampf ablassen — To release pent-up emotion or frustration.
- Salz in die Wunde streuen — To deliberately make someone's pain or humiliation worse.
- die Suppe versalzen — To ruin a plan or situation through careless excess.
From our proverbs
- Tell that tale to a deaf man. — Wasting effort communicating with someone unwilling or unable to listen yields nothing.
- It's a wicked thing to make a dearth one's garner. — Hoarding grain during scarcity exploits others' hunger for personal profit, compounding c…
- Death is deaf and hears no denial. — Mortality cannot be negotiated with or postponed, regardless of protests or refusal to ac…