spuit elf geeft ook modder
Pronunciation: /spœy̯t ˈɛlf xeːft ˈoːk ˈmɔdər/
“spuit elf geeft ook modder” is a Dutch word. Its meaning in English:
phrase
- Indicating that a nobody (an irrelevant person) has given a belated, often irrelevant or ignorant, comment.
Etymology
Literally, “hose eleven gives mud, too”. The origin of the phrase is unclear; hypotheses include: * from the concept of 11 as a crazy or incomplete number, not quite a dozen (cf. gekkengetal); * from an old firefighting figure of speech: by the time the eleventh fire hose arrives at the scene of a fire, the canal from which the fire brigade was drawing water may have only mud remaining.
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