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Netherlandish Proverbs (Dutch: Nederlandse Spreekwoorden; also called Flemish Proverbs, The Blue Cloak or The Topsy Turvy World) is a 1559 oil-on-oak-panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicts a scene in which humans and, to a lesser extent, animals and objects, offer literal illustrations of Dutch-language proverbs and idioms.
RTL Nieuws (in Dutch). 2018-10-26; References This page was last edited on 23 September 2024, at 11:59 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
A new language is a new life (Persian proverb) [5] A penny saved is a penny earned; A picture is worth a thousand words; A rising tide lifts all boats; A rolling stone gathers no moss; A ship in a harbour is safe, but that's not what a ship is for; A stitch in time (saves nine) A watched man never plays; A watched pot/kettle never boils
However, both Dutch Low Saxon and Limburgish spread across the Dutch-German border and belong to a common Dutch-Low German dialect continuum. There is a tradition of learning foreign languages in the Netherlands: about 89% of the total population have a good knowledge of English , 70% of German , 29% of French and 5% of Spanish .
Cruijff at Camp Nou, 2009. Cruijffiaans [1] is the name given to the way of speaking, or a collection of sayings, made famous [2] by Dutch association football player and coach Johan Cruijff (1947–2016), particularly "one-liners that hover somewhere between the brilliant and the banal". [3]
Dutch proverbs and sayings (4th edition) 1923: André Jolles: Bezieling en vorm: 1923–1924: P.J. Blok: History of the Dutch people (4 parts, 3rd revised edition) 1924: Aletta Jacobs: Memoires of Dr. Aletta H. Jacobs 1924: Johan Huizinga: Erasmus 1925: Jo van Ammers-Küller: De opstandigen: 1925: Reinier van Genderen Stort: Kleine Inez: 1925 ...
This is an incomplete list of Dutch expressions used in English; some are relatively common (e.g. cookie), some are comparatively rare.In a survey by Joseph M. Williams in Origins of the English Language it is estimated that about 1% of English words are of Dutch origin.
Hugo Grotius (/ ˈ ɡ r oʊ ʃ i ə s / GROH-shee-əss; 10 April 1583 – 28 August 1645), also known as Hugo de Groot [a] (Dutch: [ˈɦyɣoː də ˈɣroːt]) or Huig de Groot (Dutch: [ˈɦœyɣ də ˈɣroːt]), was a Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, statesman, poet and playwright.