zijn snor drukken

Dutch

Etymology

A variation on zich drukken (to shirk), in which the reflexive pronoun is replaced by “zijn snor” (“his moustache”), used metonymically for the shirking person.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /zɛi̯n ˈsnɔr drʏkə(n)/

Verb

zijn snor drukken

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) to shirk
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive) to abscond; to slip away

Inflection
Conjugation of zijn snor drukken: see drukken.

Synonyms

References
  1. “Wat betekent dat zit wel snor en waar komt deze uitdrukking vandaan?”, in Onze Taal‎, n.d.
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