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iluvy
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 Thu, Aug 29 2024, 7:49 pm
"You're looking for it and you're praying that you won't find it."
Said to someone (e.g. a man) who is failing to find something that is going to take the sayer (e.g. his wife) one second to f ind.
My mother says my grandmother always used to say this. I'm wondering what the actual Yiddish phrase is. Does it sound familiar to anyone?
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Molly Weasley
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Thu, Aug 29 2024, 8:09 pm
| iluvy wrote: | "You're looking for it and you're praying that you won't find it."
Said to someone (e.g. a man) who is failing to find something that is going to take the sayer (e.g. his wife) one second to f ind.
My mother says my grandmother always used to say this. I'm wondering what the actual Yiddish phrase is. Does it sound familiar to anyone? |
Sorry, no. I'm pretty well versed in Yiddish expressions
Unless you're not repeating it correctly
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synthy
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Thu, Aug 29 2024, 8:25 pm
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There’s a joke about things that you’re looking for but praying you don’t find it: a blood spot in an egg, a hole in a lung, and a son in law a learner. Or something like that.
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iluvy
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Thu, Aug 29 2024, 8:30 pm
| synthy wrote: | | There’s a joke about things that you’re looking for but praying you don’t find it: a blood spot in an egg, a hole in a lung, and a son in law a learner. Or something like that. |
😂
Maybe that's it. Do you know it in Yiddish?
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mother6
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Thu, Aug 29 2024, 8:34 pm
| synthy wrote: | | There’s a joke about things that you’re looking for but praying you don’t find it: a blood spot in an egg, a hole in a lung, and a son in law a learner. Or something like that. |
Or lice....
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synthy
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Thu, Aug 29 2024, 8:47 pm
| iluvy wrote: | 😂
Maybe that's it. Do you know it in Yiddish? |
דריי זאכן זוכט מען און מען וויל עס נישט טרעפן:
א בליץ טראפ אין אן איי, א סירכה אין א לונג, און אן איידעם א תלמיד חכם
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iluvy
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Thu, Aug 29 2024, 8:53 pm
Gonna ask my mother if this sounds familiar.
Thank you!
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ap
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Thu, Aug 29 2024, 8:55 pm
| synthy wrote: | דריי זאכן זוכט מען און מען וויל עס נישט טרעפן:
א בליץ טראפ אין אן איי, א סירכה אין א לונג, און אן איידעם א תלמיד חכם |
Why not a learning Son in-law ?
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synthy
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Thu, Aug 29 2024, 9:13 pm
| ap wrote: | | Why not a learning Son in-law ? | Because that would involve paying “kest”, or support for all the years he’s learning. Of course everyone wants to proclaim that they need an eidem a talmid chuchim though.
Keep in mind this is an archaic joke.
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dankbar
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Thu, Aug 29 2024, 9:43 pm
Zichen a nudel in a barg fin shtroi.
Seek a sewing needle in a stack of hay.
Meaning impossible to find.
Or moishe, gei zich mir.
Like you think you know who this person is like, like a common name like moshe, like go find me now....like Moshe living in America. Look go find who this is....
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dankbar
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Thu, Aug 29 2024, 9:45 pm
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Chumetz you also don't want to find when you're looking. ( except 10 crumbs hidden)
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