A silly little book this week by Maarten H. Rijkens, called We always get our sin too. The reason I read this little book is because I went on a business trip to London this week. Not much time to sit around and read when you're in London!
This book is basically a book full of Dutch expressions literally translated into English. It's not great, because I think the author actually touched upon most of the funny expressions when he wrote the first book. This is meant to be a kind of dictionary, but I have never needed it and it isn't very practically because the way the index works is not ideal.
And to give you an idea of the phrases:
"We were hanging on your lips" (Should be: We were hanging on your every word)
"It's not a one day fly" (Should be: It's not a flash in the pan)
"How do you do and how do you do your wife?" (Should be: How do you do and how is your wife?)
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