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Originally Posted by jwhughes3
Does your tag read Heaven, ass & string? (If I translate the German correctly)
What does it refer to? Is it a saying like something is held together on a wing and a prayer?
John in San Antonio
(who is waiting to see about your conversion to maybe try on the 300E)
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Heaven ass and twine. It's an old mild expletive. When I was a kid in Germany, I used to hear it from my tradesman family members and relatives frequently, typically when a granite paving stone would not fit in place or a piece of wood split.
Sometimes you can hear it in WWII movies.
Another one of the same ilk was Donner Keil noch ein mal!
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