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Re:Goat Rental – Hire Goats by throwaway2037 on Friday August 12, 2022 @09:34AM (#32438387)
Can you share the German language phrase? I tried to Google for it, but I cannot find anything.
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Re:Goat Rental – Hire Goats by leobg on Friday August 12, 2022 @09:35AM (#32438408)
Den Bock zum Gärtner machen
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Re:Goat Rental – Hire Goats by bergie on Friday August 12, 2022 @01:16PM (#32441417)
"Pukki kaalimaan vartijana" for the Finnish equivalent (goat guarding the cabbage patch)
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Re:Goat Rental – Hire Goats by hinkley on Friday August 12, 2022 @09:42PM (#32446112)
We have “fox guarding the henhouse” which is closer in tone to the Finnish phrase perhaps than the German one.
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Re:Goat Rental – Hire Goats by inglor_cz on Saturday August 13, 2022 @07:43AM (#32448960)
In Czech, "udělat kozla zahradníkem".
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