ler och långhalm
Swedish
editEtymology
editLiterally meaning "clay and long straw", using the shortened "ler" for "lera" (clay). The term comes from older times' manufacture of bricks when clay and straw were worked together, which would then be tightly joined together and difficult to distinguish.
Idiom
edit- (idiomatic) The expression means that two things (people, etc) are strongly related.
References
edit- Som ler och långhalm on the Swedish Wikipedia.Wikipedia sv