What crawled over your liver? This Pennsylvania Dutch idiom means “What’s the matter with you?” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Pennsylvania Dutch Saying”
Here is something that we haven’t really talked about, Martha.
It’s the proverbs of the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Okay.
They’ve got a lot of proverbs that are like the ones that we know in English, but they’ve got a slight twist to them based upon their culture and their history.
Some interesting stuff.
For example, if somebody has a problem and they’re like all out of sorts, you might say, what crawled over your liver?
Oh!
Meaning, what’s the matter with you, right?
Oh, that’s nice.
Or why are you hot under the collar?
You know, we’ve shared these on past shows, and you guys have contributed a whole bunch.
Send some more.
