Re: [Cz-L] off subject

Miriam (Mimi) Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

> "wo der riech sugt a gute nacht"

I think that this one came from Romanian:
Unde dracul spune noapta bune la baba padurelor.

Where the devil says good night to the old woman of the forests.

A milder expression for an out of the way place, was: Yedinitz.

Mimi

>
> anyone know this one? for a remote and out of the way location my mother
> Etka used to say, "wo der riech sugt a a gute nacht" (sp?)
>
> Sylvia


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