geen land te bezeilen zijn

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Dutch

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Etymology

Literally, no land is/was sailable (with).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣeːn ˈlɑnt tə bəˈzɛi̯.lə(n) ˈzɛi̯n/

Verb

geen land te bezeilen zijn

  1. (intransitive) used of someone who is unpersonable and unworkable:
    Met die nurks van een kleuterjuf was geen land te bezeilen.
    That curmudgeon of a nursery school teacher was utterly impossible to get along with.

Usage notes

The subject of this phrase is geen land, any inflections of zijn are therefore always in the third person. There are also variants that use er zijn rather than just zijn.

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