Met de gebakken peren zitten
Meaning: To be stuck with the unpleasant aftermath.
Language: Dutch
Literally: To be left with the baked pears
Category: Food & Drink
Origin: Left holding the cooked pears that nobody else wanted, you are saddled with the messy consequences.
More idioms — Food & Drink
- Nu är det kokta fläsket stekt — Now we're really in trouble.
- Czuć do kogoś miętę — To have a crush on someone.
- Być nie w sosie — To be in a bad mood.
- Å være midt i smørøyet — To be in the most fortunate spot imaginable.
- Být v rejži — To be in trouble.
- अंगूर खट्टे हैं (Angoor khatte hain) — To scorn what you secretly want but cannot have.
More Dutch idioms
- De koe bij de horens vatten — To tackle a problem head-on.
- Een appeltje voor de dorst — Savings put by for hard times.
- Met de mond vol tanden staan — To be tongue-tied and lost for words.
- De dans ontspringen — To narrowly escape trouble.
- hoe de vork in de steel zit — to understand the real situation or hidden mechanics of something.
- over de brug komen — to hand over money or pay what is owed.
From our tongue twisters
- Liesje leerde Lotje lopen langs de lange Lindelaan. — Eight consecutive l-words, with the vowel behind the l changing every time.
- De kat krabt de krullen van de trap. — A 'kr' cluster drill — Dutch consonant pileups that beginners approach with dread.
- Als vliegen achter vliegen vliegen, vliegen vliegen vliegen achterna. — The same noun/verb homograph trap as the German version — vliegen does triple duty.