{"id":6555,"date":"2020-03-23T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=6555"},"modified":"2020-10-29T16:00:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T16:00:45","slug":"spreekwoorden-en-uitdrukkingen-sayings-and-expressions-14-thuiswerken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/spreekwoorden-en-uitdrukkingen-sayings-and-expressions-14-thuiswerken\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreekwoorden en Uitdrukkingen (Sayings and Expressions) 14 – Thuiswerken"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the c<\/em>oronavirus\u00a0<\/em>being a worldwide pandemic, many\u00a0landen\u00a0<\/em>(countries) are implementing\u00a0quarantaines\u00a0<\/em>(quarantines), telling people: blijf thuis!\u00a0<\/em>(Stay at home!) A real #thuiswerken<\/a> movement has begun, and of course, that comes with its own linguistic quirks! Here are a spreekwoord<\/em> (saying) and an uitdrukking<\/em> (expression) to make\u00a0thuiswerken\u00a0<\/em>a little sweeter!<\/p>\n

For other sayings and expressions in this series, click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Oost, west, thuis best<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Image by Nicole Wilcox at Unsplash.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Literally: east, west, home best<\/em><\/p>\n

east, west, home’s best<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like the English equivalent, this\u00a0spreekwoord\u00a0<\/em>signifies that there is no place like home – nothing is as nice as being home! So why would anybody complain about working from such a wonderful place? We have another spreekwoord <\/em>in Dutch that means the same thing: zoals het klokje thuis tikt, tikt het nergens\u00a0<\/em>(literally: like the clock ticks at home, it ticks nowhere). But where does this come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A\u00a0spreekwoordenboek\u00a0<\/em>(proverbs dictionary) from 1914 says the following about it: “Men moge de geheele wereld doorkruist en het steeds goed gehad hebben, men zal zich nergens beter bevinden dan thuis”\u00a0<\/em>(One may have crossed over the entire world and have always had a good time, yet one shall never feel better than at home).<\/p>\n

I suppose that’s where the\u00a0windstreken\u00a0<\/em>(points of the compass) come from in this\u00a0spreekwoord<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Here’s how we’d use it in Dutch:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Na mijn wereldreis door Nieuw-Zeeland en Colombia ben ik toch wel weer blij om thuis te zijn. Oost, west, thuis best!<\/em><\/p>\n

(After my trip around the world through New Zealand and Colombia, I actually am happy to be home again. East, west, home’s best!)<\/p>\n

On to the\u00a0uitdrukking!<\/em><\/p>\n

Van alle markten thuis zijn<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Markt<\/em> (market) in Leiden, the Netherlands (Image by Maurice Smeets at Unsplash.com)<\/p><\/div>\n

Literally:<\/em>\u00a0to be home from all markets<\/em><\/p>\n

to be a jack-of-all-trades<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a bit of a weird one, but it’s fun! Imagine being in a team meeting, where everybody is working from home, and you want to make somebody a compliment for being quite the allrounder – you could say they are\u00a0literally <\/span>“van alle markten thuis”<\/em>! Due to how ubiquitous this\u00a0uitdrukking\u00a0<\/em>is, there are more variants, such as\u00a0van overal thuis zijn\u00a0<\/em>(“to be home from everywhere). But where does this come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It appears that this\u00a0uitdrukking\u00a0<\/em>has its roots in the following, again from that same spreekwoordenboek <\/em>from 1914: “landloopers en kramers, die alle markten bywoonen, leeren allerlei loosheden en bedriegeryen, die daar op in zwang gaan.”\u00a0<\/em>(vagabonds and paddlers that attend all markets learn all kinds of cunning and trickery that are used there).<\/p>\n

So this today more universal expression started as something to tell people they are street-smart. Interesting!<\/p>\n

By the way: there IS a difference with a similar, but much less known\u00a0uitdrukking<\/em>: van alle markten thuiskomen <\/em>(coming home from all markets). This uitdrukking<\/em> means the opposite: being a good-for-nothing. Why? Goods that were brought to all markets were goods that could not be sold anywhere, they were worthless. So if a good came back from all markets, they were good-for-nothing.<\/p>\n

How is it used in Dutch? Here’s an example I found:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Van eenvoudig tot culinair, Grieks, Italiaans, Thais of Chinees: de horeca in en rondom Maarssen is van alle markten thuis.<\/em><\/p>\n

(From simple to gourmet, Greek, Italian, Thai or Chinese: the hospitality industry in and around Maarssen is a jack-of-all-trades.)<\/p>\n

Do you have any other\u00a0spreekwoorden\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0uitdrukkingen\u00a0<\/em>related to #thuiswerken? What do you think of these? Are there some in your language that fit this? Let me know in the comments below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

With the coronavirus\u00a0being a worldwide pandemic, many\u00a0landen\u00a0(countries) are implementing\u00a0quarantaines\u00a0(quarantines), telling people: blijf thuis!\u00a0(Stay at home!) A real #thuiswerken movement has begun, and of course, that comes with its own linguistic quirks! Here are a spreekwoord (saying) and an uitdrukking (expression) to make\u00a0thuiswerken\u00a0a little sweeter! For other sayings and expressions in this series, click here. Oost…<\/p>\n

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