• idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    New Englanders say that too! We also respond to others concerned about our wellbeing in the rain: “I’m not made of sugar,” though we have an answer that Germans don’t say: “but you are pretty sweet.”

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      4 months ago

      TIL.

      I guess Germans don’t have that answer because for a German “No scolding is praise enough.”