February 2020

ENGLISH IDIOM OF THE MONTH:
„Pie in the sky“

 

MEANING
An unlikely event but you hope it will happen.

TRANSLATION
Unrealistische Zukunftsmusik / Illusion
wörtlich: Kuchen im Himmel

ORIGIN
A song in the early 20th century where a priest tells a slave to “work and pray, live on hay, you’ll get a pie in the sky when you die” Meaning that the slave should not get upset about his/her current living and working conditions because they will be rewarded in heaven by god.