The mental image I get when thinking of a panzer division of daschunds just cracks me up! That's definitely going to be one of the "happy places" I go to when I need to re-focus. Thanks c_b!
It was a slightly critical nickname for Cardinal Ratzinger prior to him becoming Pope Bennedict the However-Manyth. As he was often tasked by Pope John Paul II to carve out an approach on difficult issues he was dubbed 'Cardinal Panzer', and surely only because he was German.
That's interesting, yarb. Though people of my parents' generation do use WWII-era expressions sometimes, I'd never thought or heard of "panzer division" being used colloquially. I'd bet you that it's something to do with this Atlantic Ocean thing between us. Thanks for enlightening me.
I've heard "panzer division" used figuratively for an extremely big or dangerous obstacle by people of my parents' generation, but no, daschunds generally aren't that are they.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 5 You were in danger of breaking your leg by falling over a complete panzer division of dachshunds moving from bar to shove ha'penny table on a broad front.
1962 S. PLATH Daddy in Coll. Poems (1981) 224, I have always been scared of you, with your Luftwaffe..your Aryan eye, bright blue Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You.
I have to admit, I never thought of using this word in the sense of "lots of dachshunds."
Tanks?...WW2... What? Auntie Em? ;-)
Isn't a panzer a tank...
a term commonly used in WW2.....
You know...
Panzer division!
Oh...YOU were talking about those little wiener dogs... THAT'S funny too! ;-)
I'm glad. :)
(psst... I think it's spelled dachshunds)
The mental image I get when thinking of a panzer division of daschunds just cracks me up! That's definitely going to be one of the "happy places" I go to when I need to re-focus. Thanks c_b!
It was a slightly critical nickname for Cardinal Ratzinger prior to him becoming Pope Bennedict the However-Manyth. As he was often tasked by Pope John Paul II to carve out an approach on difficult issues he was dubbed 'Cardinal Panzer', and surely only because he was German.
That's interesting, yarb. Though people of my parents' generation do use WWII-era expressions sometimes, I'd never thought or heard of "panzer division" being used colloquially. I'd bet you that it's something to do with this Atlantic Ocean thing between us. Thanks for enlightening me.
I've heard "panzer division" used figuratively for an extremely big or dangerous obstacle by people of my parents' generation, but no, daschunds generally aren't that are they.
Usages from OED:
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 5 You were in danger of breaking your leg by falling over a complete panzer division of dachshunds moving from bar to shove ha'penny table on a broad front.
1962 S. PLATH Daddy in Coll. Poems (1981) 224, I have always been scared of you, with your Luftwaffe..your Aryan eye, bright blue Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You.
I have to admit, I never thought of using this word in the sense of "lots of dachshunds."