In the German language green is the colour of politics, inexperience and jealousy. A green-fingered gardener is said to have eine grüne Hand and if you have grüne Augen you are grünäugig or jealous.A person who lacks experience might be grün hinter den Ohren or wet behind the ears as we would have it. A Grünschnabel is a young whippersnapper, a delightful term in both languages.
Green places are much loved parts of the German landscape and the outside of cities is often surrounded by a grüner Gürtel, a green belt of farmland, parks and open country where development is not allowed. In the middle of a motorway the Grünstreifen separates traffic flowing in opposite directions. The traditional village green of England, however, is known in German as the Dorfanger.
Other expressions:
die Grünen
|
the Greens/Green
Party
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die
Ampel steht auf Grün
|
the lights are green
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der
Bauplatz im Grünen
|
greenfield site
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der
Grünfink
|
greenfinch
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grünes
Licht geben
|
to give the
green light/go-ahead
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er
hat mich grün und blau geschlagen
|
he beat me
black and blue
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ich
bin ihr nicht grün
|
I don’t care
much for her
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die Grünanlage
|
green space,
park
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der Grünspecht
|
woodpecker
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