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German
Etymology
From Middle High German bineʒ, from Old High German binuz, from Proto-West Germanic *binut. The idiom “in die Binsen gehen” is explained from the idea of hunted game being lost when the deer has alighted in the plants. It occurs also with Wicken.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɪnzə/
- Hyphenation: Bin‧se
Noun
Binse f (genitive Binse, plural Binsen)
- bent, rush (grass)
1819, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, West-östlicher Divan:Sanften Fall des Wassers nicht zu schwächen, / Sorgt, die Gräben fleißig auszustechen; / Rohr und Binse, Molch und Salamander, / Ungeschöpfe, tilgt sie miteinander!- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Ellipsis of Binsenweisheit.
2016 May 12, Adam Soboczynski, “Ewigkeitsgarantie”, in Die Zeit:Vielleicht wurde die Binse, dass der Weg das Ziel sei, nie beharrlicher besungen als in den Lindenberg-Songs, […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (regional, colloquial) state of failure, wreckedness, almost exclusively in the following construction:
- Der Motor ist in die Binsen gegangen. ― The motor has given up.
- Das Geld ist in die Binsen gegangen. ― The money is gone.
1986, Frank Butschbacher, “Findet die Deutsche Burschenschaft zurück zum nationalrevolutionären Erbe?”, in Helmut Kamphausen, editor, Entnationalisierung als Staatsräson?, Kiel: Arndt, →ISBN, page 54:Aus ihrer Lethargie erwachten die Burschenschafter wieder auf den Schlachtfeldern von Langemarck. Selbst als nicht nur die Begeisterung der ersten Kriegswochen verlogen, sondern das Kaiserreich selbst in die Binsen gegangen war, standen Burschenschafter in Treue zu ihrem Volk.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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