In Dutch, if you want to say someone is “all talk and no action,” you can say that they’re selling gebakken lucht or “fried air.” This is part of a complete episode.
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In Dutch there’s a great expression that means, oh, he’s all talk and no action, or he’s all hat and no cattle. In Dutch you say the equivalent of, they’re selling fried air.
Hewache lucht. I just love that.
What is it in Dutch?
Hewache lucht. Something like that.
I mean, my Dutch isn’t what it should be.
But, in fact, it’s practically non-existent.
But, yeah, they’re selling fried air.
Oh, that’s good.
And it’s got the nice correspondence to hot air in English.
Mm—
Mm—
Yeah.
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