Piggy pedagogy

Piggy pedagogy

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Idiom in focus 5: einen (großen) Bogen um etwas machen

This one, which means "to give somebody/something a wide berth," has been coming up in our reading a lot. In German (unlike in English) it can be demonstrated very well with a little skit. Below, the bunnies machen einen großen Bogen um die Stinktiere: 



Here's a video of that: 



And then the skunks wanted to do the same with the bunnies: 



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