dem Fass den Boden ausschlagen: meaning & examples

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Language: German

Meanings:

  • 1.

    GermanyAustriaSwitzerlandneutral
    • Literally, to knock out or remove the bottom of a barrel.
  • 2.

    GermanyAustriaSwitzerlandinformal
    • To exceed acceptable limits or decorum; to do something outrageous or intolerable that makes a situation unbearable (equivalent to 'the last straw' or 'to go too far').

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